OECD 2009.11.09
in Health Care
OECD Health Policy Studies
Achieving Better Value for Money in Health Care
Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, Health Division
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Patterns of Health Care Spending Growth
• Patterns of expenditure growth over the recent past
• Contributions to growth in spending
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The share of health-care spending in GDP
• Factors potentially contributing to differences in the level of health care spending
• Demands placed on the health system
• Supply-side factors
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Differences in health care spending: the broader picture
Chapter 2. Market Mechanisms and the Use of Health Care Resources
• Experience to date
• Improving policies
Chapter 3. Improving Health Care System Performance through Better Co-ordination of Care
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Interest in co-ordination of care issues is increasing
• Care co-ordination: issues, practices and concerns
• Policies for system-wide improvements in care co-ordination
• Care co-ordination may benefit from greater health-system integration
Chapter 4. Ensuring Efficiency in Pharmaceutical Expenditures
• Current policies, instruments and experiences and their impact
• Improving policies
Chapter 5. Using ICT to Monitor and Improve Quality in Health Care
• What is quality of care?
• Improving quality measurement in health care and the role of ICT
Chapter 6. The Impact of User Charges on Health Care
• User charges in high income countries
• Developments in Europe
• Evaluating user charge experiments