health and aquatic ecosystems. Conclusions are drawn relating to: i) better integrating water and other policies for … sustainable development; ii) getting water prices right; and iii) new challenges for water-related public health. …

a major public health concern. This book contributes to evidence-based policy making by exploring multiple dimensions of … diseases that provides novel insights relative to a more traditional public health approach. The analysis was undertaken by the … OECD, partly in collaboration with the World Health Organization. The main chapters are complemented by special …

A System of Health Accounts 2011 provides a systematic description of the financial flows related to the consumption of … health care goods and services. As demands for information increase and more countries implement and institutionalise health …. This new edition builds on the original OECD Manual, published in 2000, and the Guide to Producing National Health Accounts …

of health care are among the issues addressed in this publication. Many health policies depend on our ability to measure … pay providers of high-quality care more than those who underperform. However, measuring the quality of health care is … challenging. The OECD’s Health Care Quality Indicator project has overcome some of the problems, though many remain. If policy …

How can the performance of the Korean health care system be improved? How have the July 2000 health sector reforms … are needed to promote health systems objectives in a mixed public-private context. …

This book describes the strengths and weaknesses of the Mexican health system in terms of access to health care … reforms to the system with particular emphasis on the recently-introduced System of Social Protection in Health ("Sistema de …