Health resources includes financial resources (health spending) and human resources. Health spending measures the … consumption of health services and goods, including outpatient care, hospital care, long-term care, pharmaceuticals and other … medical goods, prevention and public health services, and administration. Health human resources, including doctors and nurses …

Mental ill-health affects millions of people, and drives economic costs of more than 4% of GDP. A good mental health … system helps people stay in good mental health, and connects those in need to appropriate support to manage their mental … health condition or even fully recover from it. However, mental health care has long been neglected and under-funded, and …

diseases such as cancer. At the same time, total spending on health care now absorbs over 9% of GDP on average in the OECD …. Achieving value for money in the health care sector is an important objective in all OECD countries. The book takes an in …-depth look at health care in OECD countries today. What is the status of people’s health? How do we measure health outcomes? How …

neglected infectious disease, according to the World Health Organisation. Yet less than 1% of the new drugs placed on the market … availability of medicines for infectious diseases through strengthened coherence in health, trade, science and technology …

Proceedings of the Ottawa Conference, November 2001. How can we measure the performance of different health systems …, and how can we use such information to support on-going health systems improvement? Those are the central questions … addressed in this volume. Health policy makers have a growing interest in finding ways of encouraging health systems to improve …