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Health spending in Europe falls for the first time in decades

(should have been posted already)

12/6/12

(via Evolution average number of beds per hospital » FishyOperations)

07/29/12

(via Growth in health spending grinds to a halt)

07/5/12

04/13/12

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The OECD Health Care Quality Indicators project, initiated in 2002, aims to measure and compare the quality of health service provision in the different countries. An Expert Group has developed a set of quality indicators at the health systems level, which allows to assess the impact of particular factors on the quality of health services.

Health Care Quality Indicators

04/13/12

(via Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD))

04/13/12

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Not surprisingly, studies have found that countries where out-of-pocket payments are higher tend to be those where the share of households incurring catastrophic, and therefore impoverishing, health expenditures are also elevated. To make matters worse, households faced with high out-of-pocket expenses for healthcare often postpone health checks and forgo care altogether when they fall sick. This is especially true for the poorest, who often need healthcare most. To be sure, the better-off receive more healthcare than the poor in those Asian countries relying most heavily on direct payments, such as India and Indonesia.

Who pays if you’re sick? | OECD Factblog (see also: inverse care law)

03/15/12

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