Author: Colombo FrancescaPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264097759
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This book examines the challenges countries are facing with regard to providing and paying for long-term care.
OECD Health Policy Studies Help Wanted? Providing and Paying for Long-Term Care
Author: Colombo FrancescaPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264097759
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This book examines the challenges countries are facing with regard to providing and paying for long-term care.
OECD Health Policy Studies Who Cares? Attracting and Retaining Care Workers for the Elderly
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264383743
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
This report presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive cross-country assessment of long-term care (LTC) workers, the tasks they perform and the policies to address shortages in OECD countries. It highlights the importance of improving working conditions in the sector and making care work more attractive and shows that there is space to increase productivity by enhancing the use of technology, providing a better use of skills and investing in prevention.
The OECD Health Project Long-term Care for Older People
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 926401585X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
This study reports on the latest trends in long-term care policies in nineteen OECD countries and studies lessons learned from countries that undertook major reforms over the past decade.
OECD Health Policy Studies A Good Life in Old Age? Monitoring and Improving Quality in Long-term Care
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264194568
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book offers evidence and examples of useful experiences to help policy makers, providers and experts measure and improve the quality of long-term care services.
OECD Health Policy Studies Health Workforce Policies in OECD Countries Right Jobs, Right Skills, Right Places
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264239510
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This publication reviews key trends and new policy priorities in relation to the health workforce in OECD countries following the economic crisis.
Better Ways to Pay for Health Care
Author: OECDPublisher: Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
ISBN: 9789264258204
Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Payers for health care are pursuing a variety of policies as part of broader efforts to improve the quality and efficiency of care. Payment reform is but one policy tool to improve health system performance that requires supportive measures in place such as policies with well-developed stakeholder involvement, information on quality, clear criteria for tariff setting, and embedding evaluation as part of the policy process. Countries should not, however, underestimate the significant data challenges when looking at price setting processes. Data access and ways to overcome its fragmentation require well-developed infrastructures. Policy efforts highlight a trend towards aligning payer and provider incentives by using evidence-based clinical guidelines and outcomes to inform price setting. There are signs of increasing policy focus on outcomes to inform price setting. These efforts could bring about system-wide effects of using evidence along with a patient-centred focus to improve health care delivery and performance in the long-run.
OECD Health Policy Studies Value for Money in Health Spending
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264088814
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This publication examines current efforts to improve health care efficiency, including tools that show promise in helping health systems provide the best care for their money.
A Good Life in Old Age?
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789279289446
Category : Older people
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Preventing Ageing Unequally
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264279083
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This report examines how the two global mega-trends of population ageing and rising inequalities have been developing and interacting, both within and across generations.
Age with Care
Author: Gianluca CafagnaPublisher: Inter-American Development Bank
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
In Latin America and the Caribbean, more than 8 million older people are unable to independently complete at least one basic activity of daily living, such as eating, bathing or showering, or getting in and out of bed. This situation, called care dependence, affects 12% of people over age 60 and nearly 27% of people over age 80 in the region. The demand for long-term care services will more than triple in the next 30 years, due primarily to population aging and the epidemiological transition. The region will also see a drop in the traditional supply of long-term care services, which are based mainly on the unpaid work of women in families. Given this outlook, societies and governments must ready themselves to support care-dependent people and their caregivers, while at the same time advancing gender equity. Countries need to design long-term care systems, and they need to do so now. This publication addresses five key questions for countries in the region that wish to start this process: 1) Why is long-term care an issue that cannot wait?; 2) How do countries design a long-term care system?; 3) What are the countries in the region doing?; 4) How much would a long-term care system cost?; 5) Where should we start? This is the first IDB publication that is interactive and accessible to as many people as possible.
