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 …

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

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 …

The Czech health care system is doing well in terms of health outcomes compared to other Central East European … economies that inherited similar health systems after the transition and has been converging to OECD averages. However …, benchmarking the Czech health system to countries with comparable institutional setting points to potential for efficiency gains …

The measurement of the impact of technology as a driver of health care expenditure is complex since technological … effects are closely interlinked with other determinants such as income and the composition and health status of a population …. Furthermore, the impact of the supply of advances in technology on health expenditure cannot be considered in isolation from …

education and health-care systems work well for most. However, some New Zealanders are stuck on low incomes and face material …. Māori, Pasifika and low-income households have also experienced slower rates of improvement in many health and education … housing and enhance health and education outcomes for disadvantaged groups. These reforms go in the right direction and, in …

Mental ill-health can lead to poor work performance, high sickness absence and reduced labour market participation …, resulting in considerable costs for society. Improving labour market participation of people with mental health problems … requires well-integrated policies and services across the education, employment, health and social sectors. This paper provides …

Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of … the two-way causal relationship between these two variables: health status influences the probability of being employed … and, at the same time, working affects the health status. Because these two variables are determined simultaneously …

health systems. It then takes stock of current knowledge on the effectiveness of policy instruments to tackle unhealthy diets …