Challenges to Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance

Challenges to Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance
Author: Michael Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2020-04-23
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1108799450

An accessible overview of the challenges in tackling AMR, and the economic and policy responses of the 'One Health' approach. It will appeal to policy-makers seeking to strengthen national and local polices tackling AMR, as well as students and academics who want an overview of the latest scientific evidence regarding effective AMR policies.

OECD Health Policy Studies Embracing a One Health Framework to Fight Antimicrobial Resistance

OECD Health Policy Studies Embracing a One Health Framework to Fight Antimicrobial Resistance
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2023-09-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9264941096

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – the ability of microbes to resist antimicrobials – remains an alarming global health threat. This report identifies 11 One Health “best buys” that, if implemented systematically, would improve population health, reduce health expenditure and generate positive returns for the economy.

OECD Health Policy Studies Waiting Time Policies in the Health Sector What Works?

OECD Health Policy Studies Waiting Time Policies in the Health Sector What Works?
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2013-02-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9264179089

This book provides a framework to understand why there are waiting lists for elective surgery in some OECD countries and not in others. It also describes how waiting times are measured in OECD countries and reviews different policy approaches to tackling excessive waiting times.

OECD Health Policy Studies Waiting Times for Health Services Next in Line

OECD Health Policy Studies Waiting Times for Health Services Next in Line
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2020-05-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9264989048

The report reviews a range of policies that countries have used to tackle waiting times for different services, including elective surgery and primary care consultations, but also cancer care and mental health services, with a focus on identifying the most successful ones.

Tackling Wasteful Spending on Health

Tackling Wasteful Spending on Health
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2017-01-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9264266410

Countries could potentially spend significantly less on health care with no impact on health system performance, or on health outcomes. This report reviews strategies put in place by countries to limit ineffective spending and waste.

Crossing the Global Quality Chasm

Crossing the Global Quality Chasm
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2019-01-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309477891

In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explicit commitment to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. However, enormous gaps remain between what is achievable in human health and where global health stands today, and progress has been both incomplete and unevenly distributed. In order to meet this goal, a deliberate and comprehensive effort is needed to improve the quality of health care services globally. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide focuses on one particular shortfall in health care affecting global populations: defects in the quality of care. This study reviews the available evidence on the quality of care worldwide and makes recommendations to improve health care quality globally while expanding access to preventive and therapeutic services, with a focus in low-resource areas. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm emphasizes the organization and delivery of safe and effective care at the patient/provider interface. This study explores issues of access to services and commodities, effectiveness, safety, efficiency, and equity. Focusing on front line service delivery that can directly impact health outcomes for individuals and populations, this book will be an essential guide for key stakeholders, governments, donors, health systems, and others involved in health care.

OECD Health Policy Studies Securing Medical Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World

OECD Health Policy Studies Securing Medical Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2024-02-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9264431683

This report offers insights into the risks and vulnerabilities of the supply chains of medicines and medical devices. Policy options to anticipate and mitigate risks of shortages of medicines and medical devices, both routinely and in the context of severe crises, are analysed. Most importantly, the report shows that strengthening the long-term resilience of medical supply chains requires collaborative approaches that balance measures best undertaken by the private sector with those more appropriately managed by governments or supranationally.