OECD has released its annual report comparing health systems in its 34 member countries and, when information is available, 6 major non-OECD countries.
Data is provided for 8 broad categories:
- Health status [life expectancy, mortality, disease incidence, etc.]
- Non-medical determinants of health [tobacco and alcohol use, obesity]
- Health workforce [health sector employment, number and average income of physicians and nurses, etc.]
- Health care activities [hospital beds, discharges, average length of stay, medical technologies, pharmaceutical consumption, etc.]
- Quality of care [avoidable readmissions, patient safety, cancer care, vaccinations, etc.]
- Access to care [unmet health care needs, waiting times, inequalities, burden of out-of-pocket expenses, etc.]
- Health expenditure and financing [per capita and percent of GDP expenditures, expenditure by function, financing, etc.]
- Long-term care [a newly added section on LTC workers, beds, expenditures, etc.]
Also included is hard-to-find data on trade in health services, or medical tourism, showing both imports and exports [inbound and outbound medical travel] expenditures by country as a share of the nation’s total health expenditures and how that has changed from 2004-2009.
The member countries covered in the OECD report include:
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Canada
- Chile
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Korea
- Luxembourg
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Slovak Republic
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- United States
The non-OECD member countries included when data is available are:
- Brazil
- China
- India
- Indonesia
- Russian Federation
- South Africa
If connected to the web when viewing the report, click on the StatLinks on individual tables and graphs to download the data to Excel.
Source: Health at a glance 2011; OECD indicators. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Dec. 2011. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/6/28/49105858.pdf
Posted by the AHA Resource Center, (312) 422-2050, rc@aha.org
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