life while decreasing after middle age. To be able to reflect these trends in the OECD Strategic Public Health Planning for …

, Germany, Sweden and Netherlands have also seen a sharp slowdown. Overall, the pace of mortality improvement has slowed in …. Improvements in cardiovascular (CVD) disease mortality have slowed in many countries, respiratory diseases, including influenza and … countries, notably the USA and the UK, mortality improvements have also slowed or even reversed among working age adults because …

France’s health-care system offers high-quality care. Average health outcomes are good, public satisfaction with the … health-care system is high, and average household out-of-pocket expenditures are low. As in other OECD countries, technology … by care providers, tackle the high spending on pharmaceuticals, strengthen the role of health insurers as purchasing …

ways to understand their health options and take more control over their health decisions. But this is not an easy task …. Professionals continue to use medical jargon, drug instructions are not always clear, and health information in clinical settings … democratising access to health information, providing new ways to improve health knowledge and support self care. Nonetheless, when …