Health Reform : Meeting the Challenge of Ageing and Multiple Morbidities / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Contributor:

SourceOECD (Online service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social issues, migration, health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages)

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2011.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

When the OECD was founded in 1961, health systems were gearing themselves up to deliver acute care interventions. Sick people were to be cured in hospitals, then sent on their way againches Medical training was focused on hospitals; innovation was to develop new interventions; payment systems were centred around single episodes of care. Health systems have delivered big improvements in health since then, but they can be slow to adapt to new challenges. In particular, these days, the overwhelming burden of disease is chronic, for which 'cure' is out of our reach. Health policies have changed to some extent in response, though perhaps not enough. But the challenge of the future is that the typical recipient of health care will be aged and will have multiple morbidities. This book examines how payment systems, innovation policies and human resource policies need to be modernised so that OECD health systems will continue to generate improved health outcomes in the future at a sustainable cost.

Contents:

Reconfiguring health professions in times of multimorbidity

The challenge of financing care for individuals with multimorbidities

Health sector innovation and partnership

The latest disease burden challenge

Ageing, health and innovation

Foreword

Executive Summary

Acronyms

Multimorbidity.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed May 1, 2017).

ISBN:

9789264122314

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.