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Il faut investir davantage dans les systèmes de santé pour se préparer aux chocs futurs, selon l’OCDE

Au vu des répercussions considérables de la pandémie de COVID-19 sur les populations et l’économie mondiale, les pays doivent adapter de toute urgence leurs systèmes de santé afin de mieux faire face aux chocs futurs. S’il est nécessaire d’investir massivement dans les personnels de santé, il faut aussi accroître les dépenses allouées à la prévention et aux infrastructures numériques, selon un nouveau rapport de l’OCDE.

Universal Health Coverage

Universal Health Coverage is about everyone having access to good quality health services without suffering financial hardship. Although most OECD countries offer all their citizens affordable access to a comprehensive package of health services, they face challenges in sustaining and enhancing such universal systems.

G7 Health Ministerial meetings

The OECD is actively involved in the G7 Health Ministers meetings. This page reviews the issues discussed as well as the reports prepared by the OECD to inform those meetings.

Health Systems Characteristics

Responses from the OECD Health System Characteristics Survey are available online, providing access to the most recent information on key institutional characteristics of health systems of OECD countries, key partner and accession countries for its 2012 and 2016 editions, as well as Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries for its 2018 edition.

Country Health Profiles 2021

The State of Health in the EU’s Country Health Profiles provide a concise and policy-relevant overview of health and health systems in the EU/European Economic area, emphasizing the particular characteristics and challenges in each country. The 2021 edition has a special focus on the impact and responses of European health systems to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health Update - The OECD Newsletter on Health

Read about our latest reports "Health for the People, by the People", the "State of Health in the EU’s Country Profiles", and our work on Brazil ("OECD Reviews of Health Systems: Brazil 2021" and "Primary Health Care in Brazil"). This edition also has a special focus on the most recent COVID-19 brief "Rising from the COVID-19 crisis: Policy responses in the long-term care sector".

TOSSD - Tracking global health expenditure in support of the SDGs

La pandémie de COVID-19 a souligné la nécessité de rendre les systèmes de santé plus résilients, déclare l’OCDE

Le COVID-19 a contribué à une hausse de 16 % du nombre attendu de décès en 2020 et au premier semestre 2021 dans les pays de l’OCDE. L’espérance de vie a reculé dans 24 pays sur 30 disposant de données comparables, et principalement aux États-Unis (de 1.6 an) et en Espagne (de 1.5 an), d’après un nouveau rapport de l’OCDE.

Improving Regulatory Delivery in Food Safety - Mitigating Old and New Risks, and Fostering Recovery

Health care prices and Purchasing Power Parities

Variations in per capita health spending can be the result of differences in prices for health care goods and services, and in the quantity of care that individuals are using (“volume”). Eurostat and the OECD have calculated purchasing power parities and price level indexes for GDP and some 50 product groups, including health and hospitals, on a regular and timely basis.