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  • 3-December-2014

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    Health at a Glance: Europe 2014 - Briefing Note for Germany

    Progress has been made to reduce smoking rates and alcohol consumption in Germany, but obesity is on the rise as in most other EU countries. As in other EU countries, spending for prevention in Germany accounts only for around 3% of current health spending.

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  • 3-December-2014

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    Health at a Glance: Europe 2014 - Briefing Note for Ireland

    Despite cuts in recent years, health spending as a share of GDP in Ireland remains slightly higher than the EU average and pharmaceutical spending in particular remains relatively high.

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  • 3-December-2014

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    Health at a Glance: Europe 2014 - Briefing Note for France (in French)

    Le poids des dépenses hospitalières dans les dépenses de santé s’avère très élevé en France malgré des efforts pour développer des modes de prise en charge moins coûteux.

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  • 3-December-2014

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    Health at a Glance: Europe 2014 - Briefing Note for Norway

    Excellent population health status and good outcomes associated with acute care reflect a high-performing health system in Norway. Norway’s good health system comes at a cost – Norway’s per capita health expenditure is the highest in Europe.

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  • 3-December-2014

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    Health at a Glance: Europe 2014 - Briefing Note for Italy (in English)

    Italy's indicators of health status and quality of care remain among the best in the EU. Italy spent 9.2% of its GDP on health in 2012, slightly more than the EU average of 8.7%.

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  • 3-December-2014

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    Health at a Glance: Europe 2014 - Briefing Note for the United Kingdom

    The number of doctors in the UK has grown more rapidly than in any other EU countries since 2000; the number per capita remains lower than the EU average. There has been a sharp drop in deaths from heart attacks in the UK since 2000, reflecting reductions in important risk factors like smoking and better treatments.

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  • 3-December-2014

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    Inequalities in health and access to quality care persist in Europe, shows a new OECD/EC report

    Today, Europeans enjoy a much longer life expectancy than the previous generation, but large inequalities in health remain across and within countries. These are largely due to disparities in access to and quality of care, as well as individual lifestyles and behaviours, according to a new joint OECD/European Commission report.

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  • 1-December-2014

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    The Netherlands should do more to help workers with mental ill-health, says OECD

    The Netherlands should increase support for workers suffering from mental health issues and their employers and tackle the continued social stigma and limited knowledge around such illnesses, according to a new OECD report.

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  • 1-December-2014

    English

    Mental Health and Work: Netherlands

    Tackling mental ill-health of the working-age population is becoming a key issue for labour market and social policies in OECD countries. OECD governments increasingly recognise that policy has a major role to play in keeping people with mental ill-health in employment or bringing those outside of the labour market back to it, and in preventing mental illness. This report on the Netherlands is the seventh in a series of reports looking at how the broader education, health, social and labour market policy challenges identified in Sick on the Job? Myths and Realities about Mental Health and Work (OECD, 2012) are being tackled in a number of OECD countries.
  • 28-November-2014

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    OECD Health Statistics 2014 - Frequently Requested Data

    Download data on health expenditure, health care resources, health care activities, mortality, and risk factors. Latest data in Excel format from the database OECD Health Statistics 2014, November 2014 edition.

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