The book introduces several models for assessing health and economic policies in relation to NCDs; shows how the models …

, increases healthcare costs, decreases workers' productivity and lowers GDP. The report makes the urgent economic case to scale … up investments in policies to promote healthy lifestyles and tackle this growing global public health problem. The book … evaluates a number of policies which could significantly improve health outcomes while being an excellent investment for …

Following a brief pause after the economic crisis, health expenditure is rising again in most OECD countries. Yet, a … considerable part of this health expenditure makes little or no contribution to improving people's health. In some cases, it even … results in worse health outcomes. Countries could potentially spend significantly less on health care with no impact on health …

underpin the measurement and improvement of health care quality in 15 different health systems. This synthesis report draws on … key lessons from the OECD Health Care Quality Review series. The objective is to summarise the main challenges and good … practices to support improvements in health care quality, and to help ensure that the substantial resources devoted to health …