overwhelming burden of disease is chronic, for which ‘cure’ is out of our reach. Health policies have changed to some extent in …When the OECD was founded in 1961, health systems were gearing themselves up to deliver acute care interventions. Sick … to develop new interventions; payment systems were centred around single episodes of care. Health systems have delivered …

retention and new hiring of people with health problems. It questions the need for distinguishing unemployment and disability as …Too many workers leave the labour market permanently due to health problems or disability, and too few people with … countries. It also raises an apparent paradox that needs explaining: Why is it that the average health status is improving, yet …

Ageing-Related Diseases study investigated how health systems treat three diseases: ischemic heart disease, stroke and breast … health care system characteristics, prevention, detection, technology and treatment, is the most cost-effective? The OECD … cancer. This book includes papers discussing the results of the OECD study with essays by leading experts, and uses a disease …

retention and new hiring of people with health problems. It questions the need for distinguishing unemployment and disability as …Too many workers leave the labour market permanently due to health problems or disability, and too few people with … countries. It also raises an apparent paradox that needs explaining: Why is it that the average health status is improving, yet …

ill health. Based on extensive new epidemiological evidence since the 2010 Global Burden of Disease study, and OECD …Outdoor air pollution kills more than 3 million people across the world every year, and causes health problems from … asthma to heart disease for many more. This is costing societies very large amounts in terms of the value of lives lost and …