OECD Health Policy Studies Realising the Potential of Primary Health Care
Title | OECD Health Policy Studies Realising the Potential of Primary Health Care PDF eBook |
Author | OECD |
Publisher | OECD Publishing |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2020-05-30 |
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ISBN | 9264561625 |
This report examines primary health care across OECD countries before the COVID-19 pandemic, and draws attention to how primary health care is not living up to its full potential. Doing things differently – through new models of organising services, better co-ordination among providers, better use of digital technology, and better use of resources and incentives – helps to improve care, reduce the need for hospitalisations, and mitigate health inequalities.
Realising the Potential of Primary Health Care
Title | Realising the Potential of Primary Health Care PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789264933903 |
The rapid spread of COVID-19 added urgency to the need to address long-standing pressures on health systems, linked to growing citizens' expectations, population ageing and more complex and costly health care needs. As the first point of contact, primary health care that provides comprehensive, continuous, and co-ordinated care is key to boosting preventive care, treating those who need care, and helping people become more active in managing their own health. It has the potential to improve health system efficiency and health outcomes for people across socio-economic levels, and make health systems people-centred. This report examines primary health care across OECD countries before the COVID-19 pandemic, and draws attention to how primary health care is not living up to its full potential. Doing things differently - through new models of organising services, better co-ordination among providers, better use of digital technology, and better use of resources and incentives - helps to improve care, reduce the need for hospitalisations, and mitigate health inequalities. This report identifies key policy challenges that OECD countries need to address to realise the full potential of primary health care, and reviews progress and innovations towards transforming primary health care.
Realising the Potential of Primary Health Care
Title | Realising the Potential of Primary Health Care PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789264746459 |
The rapid spread of COVID-19 added urgency to the need to address long-standing pressures on health systems, linked to growing citizens' expectations, population ageing and more complex and costly health care needs. As the first point of contact, primary health care that provides comprehensive, continuous, and co-ordinated care is key to boosting preventive care, treating those who need care, and helping people become more active in managing their own health. It has the potential to improve health system efficiency and health outcomes for people across socio-economic levels, and make health systems people-centred. This report examines primary health care across OECD countries before the COVID-19 pandemic, and draws attention to how primary health care is not living up to its full potential. Doing things differently - through new models of organising services, better co-ordination among providers, better use of digital technology, and better use of resources and incentives - helps to improve care, reduce the need for hospitalisations, and mitigate health inequalities. This report identifies key policy challenges that OECD countries need to address to realise the full potential of primary health care, and reviews progress and innovations towards transforming primary health care.
OECD Health Policy Studies Primary Health Care for Resilient Health Systems in Latin America
Title | OECD Health Policy Studies Primary Health Care for Resilient Health Systems in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | OECD |
Publisher | OECD Publishing |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2022-12-13 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9264550046 |
Latin American countries were hard hit by COVID-19 with rates of excess mortality above the OECD average. The pandemic brought additional stress to health systems already overstretched by a growing burden of chronic diseases, unequal access to health care services, overall under-investment in health and strong budgetary restrictions, and systemic inefficiencies.
OECD Health Policy Studies Health for the People, by the People Building People-centred Health Systems
Title | OECD Health Policy Studies Health for the People, by the People Building People-centred Health Systems PDF eBook |
Author | OECD |
Publisher | OECD Publishing |
Pages | 87 |
Release | 2021-12-16 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9264475451 |
Health systems have to meet the changing needs of an increasingly assertive population and an ever more complex health policy context. Digitalisation, population ageing, chronic diseases, new pandemic threats, and evolving expectations of what health services should deliver – and how – have raised questions of whether health systems meet the needs and facilitate engagement of the people.
OECD Health Policy Studies Achieving Better Value for Money in Health Care
Title | OECD Health Policy Studies Achieving Better Value for Money in Health Care PDF eBook |
Author | OECD |
Publisher | OECD Publishing |
Pages | 167 |
Release | 2009-11-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9264074236 |
This report report examines selected policies that may help countries better achieve the goal of improved health system efficiency and thus better value for money.
The OECD Health Project Towards High-Performing Health Systems Policy Studies
Title | The OECD Health Project Towards High-Performing Health Systems Policy Studies PDF eBook |
Author | OECD |
Publisher | OECD Publishing |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2004-08-20 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9264015604 |
This series of seven policy studies cover lessons from experience in health system reform, improving the technical quality of health care, income-related inequality in health care, matching supply with demand for physicians and nurses, excessive waiting times, private health insurance, and more.