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1 Please cite this publication as:OECD ( 2011 ), Health at a Glance 2011 : OECD Indicators, OECD work is published on the OECD iLibrary, which gathers all OECD books, periodicals and statistical databases. Visit , and do not hesitate to contact us for more at a Glance 2011 OECD INDICATORSC ontentsOECD 50th Anniversary: Measuring progress in Health in OECD countries over the past fi fty yearsChapter 1. Health statusChapter 2. Non-medical determinants of healthChapter 3. Health workforceChapter 4. Health care activitiesChapter 5. Quality of careChapter 6. Access to careChapter 7. Health expenditure and fi nancingChapter 8. Long-term careISBN 978-92-64-11153-081 2011 10 1 P-:HSTCQE=VVVZXU: Health at a Glance 2011 OECD INDICATORSH ealth at a Glance 2011 OECD INDICATORSH ealth at a Glance2011 OECD INDICATORSThis work is published on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD.

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5 For the first time, itfeatures a chapter on long-term edition presents data for all 34 OECD member countries, including the four new membercountries: Chile, Estonia, Israel and Slovenia. Where possible, it also reports comparable data for Brazil,China, India, Indonesia, the Russian Federation, and South Africa, as major non-OECD production of Health at a Glance would not have been possible without the contributionof OECD Health Data National Correspondents, Health Accounts Experts, and Health Care QualityIndicators Experts. The OECD gratefully acknowledges their effort in supplying most of the data andqualitative information contained in this publication.

6 The OECD also acknowledges the contributionof other international organisations, especially the World Health Organization, the World Bank andEurostat, for sharing some of the data presented here, and the European Commission for supportingdata publication was prepared by a team from the OECD Health Division under the co-ordination ofGa tan Lafortune and Michael de Looper. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 were prepared by Michael de Looper;Chapter 3 by Michael Schoenstein, Ga lle Balestat and Rebecca Bennetts; Chapter 4 by Ga tan Lafortuneand Ga lle Balestat; Chapter 5 by Gerrard Abi-Aad, Vladimir Stevanovic, Rie Fujisawa andNiek Klazinga; Chapter 6 by Michael de Looper and Marion Devaux (with a contribution fromLothar Janssen of the German Federal Ministry of Health ); Chapter 7 by David Morgan, Rebecca Bennettsand Roberto Astolfi; and Chapter 8 by J r me Mercier, Margarita Xydia-Charmanta andFrancesca Colombo.

7 Statistical support was provided by Nelly Biondi. This publication benefited fromcomments and suggestions by Val rie Paris and Mark AT 50 Health AT A Glance 2011 : OECD INDICATORS OECD 20115 OECD 50th AnniversaryMeasuring Progress in Health in OECD Countries over the Past Fifty YearsWork on Health at the OECD began in the early 1980s, as part of an examination of thestrong growth in Health expenditure in the prior decade. In the 1980s and the 1990s, thiswork focused largely on building a robust database that could be used for comparativeanalyses of Health systems, beginning with comparable data on Health spending.

8 Thisdevelopmental work led to the release of the first version of the OECD manual A System ofHealth Accounts in 2000. In the ten years since the launch of the OECD Health Project in 2001,OECD work has broadened to address some of the main challenges that policy makers faceto improve the performance of their countries Health systems (see box on next page).As work on both Health data and Health policy has expanded, so has co-operation withother international organisations, in particular the World Health Organization (WHO) andthe European Commission. A first framework of co-operation was signed between theOECD Secretary-General and the WHO Director-General in 1999, and this agreement wasfurther extended in 2005 to cover not only statistical work but also analytical work relatedto the financing and delivery of Health care services.

9 At the end of 2005, the OECD, WHOand Eurostat (the European statistical agency) launched a first joint data collection basedon the work already undertaken for A System of Health Accounts, to improve the availabilityand comparability of data on Health expenditure and financing. Building on this success, anew joint collection between the three organisations was launched in 2010 to gathercomparable data on non-monetary Health care statistics. This strong collaboration avoidsduplication of work and ensures synergies between the three OECD Health Data database, the main source for this publication, has been built upover the past 30 years in close co-operation with officials from all OECD countries andother international organisations.

10 It provides a unique source of information to comparethe evolution of Health and Health systems across OECD countries, with some time seriesspanning the whole 50-year period since the Organisation s back at the evolution of Health and Health systems since the OECD wascreated in 1961, three major trends stand out:1. The remarkable gains in life The changing nature of risk factors to The steady growth in Health spending, which has exceeded GDP growth by a AT 50 Health AT A Glance 2011 : OECD INDICATORS OECD 20116 Key events related to OECD work on health1961: Creation of the OECD as a successor to the Organisation for European : OECD Conference on Social Policies calls for more analysis on Health expendituregrowth, leading to the beginning of OECD work on Health under the Working Partyon Social : First OECD report on Health , Measuring Health Care, 1960-1983.