Box 1.1OECD Health Statistics and Health at a Glance reports

Since the mid-1980s, the OECD has published health statistics on health expenditure and different aspects of performance (OECD, 1985), and the first electronic edition of the OECD health database was released in 1991.

Since 2001, the OECD has been releasing Health at a Glance, a publication presenting a comprehensive set of key indicators on population health and health system performance in OECD countries and partner countries. These indicators are underpinned by a conceptual HSPA framework first developed in the context of the OECD workstream on healthcare quality and outcomes. The latest edition of Health at a Glance was released in November 2023 (OECD, 2023a). Since 2010, the OECD has also released every even year regional editions of Health at a Glance, including Health at a Glance: Europe jointly with the European Commission covering 38 European countries (OECD/European Union, 2022). Other editions are also available for the Asia-Pacific region and the Latin America and Caribbean region.

All versions of Health at a Glance utilize the OECD Health Statistics database. This database gathers information through two annual joint data collections by the OECD, Eurostat and WHO on health accounts (for health expenditure and financing data) and non-monetary healthcare statistics (for health workforce and healthcare resources and activities data), as well as separate data collections from the OECD (for example for healthcare quality indicators and access to care indicators), Eurostat (such as population-based surveys such as EU-SILC and EHIS), and other sources.

Alongside indicator-by-indicator analysis, an overview chapter in the OECD-wide edition of Health at a Glance summarizes the comparative performance of countries and major trends across key dimensions and indicators.

Explore Health at a Glance and OECD Health Statistics by visiting: https://www.oecd.org/health/health-at-a-glance/ https://www.oecd.org/health/health-at-a-glance-europe https://www.oecd.org/health/health-data.htm

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