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Health reform
— meeting the challenge of ageing and multiple morbidities | | Corporate Author | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - OECD |
| Publisher | OECD Publishing, Paris, 2011 |
| Pages | 221 pp |
| Source | Also available as: http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/49151107.pd. |
| Keywords | Ill health ; Chronic illness ; Multiple ; Coordination ; Conference proceedings. |
| Annotation | The OECD and the Business Industry Advisory Committee (BIAC) hosted a conference in Paris on June 2011 to consider issues such as the cost of care. This volume comprises the five papers presented, and a sixth on measuring quality in the presence of multimorbidity and the impact on health systems and their development. The first, on the disease burden challenge, notes that in the United States, 85% of all health care utilisation is by people with at least one chronic condition, and 65%, by people with multiple chronic conditions. The second contends that seeing ageing as imposing a burden on society is misguided. Living longer is about living better, and being able to be an active member of society far longer than in the past. The third, on the challenge of financing care considers how health workforce policies and health professions need to change to deal with multimorbidities. The fourth discusses how to integrate health and long-term care. The firth concerns strategies for implementing organisational innovation and partnership in. health, by describing actual patterns of morbidity, using data from Scotland. That multimorbidity is common, and rises sharply with age, is confirmed. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-160129002 B |
| Classmark | CH: CI: 58G: QAJ: 6M |
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