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Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2020-12-22
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 926461964X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLatvia sees high rates of obesity, smoking and alcohol consumption. In turn, this results in a high incidence of preventable diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes and many cancers. This puts a burden on a health system which is already operating on a very tight budget as compared to other OECD countries.
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9789264737419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLatvia sees high rates of obesity, smoking and alcohol consumption. In turn, this results in a high incidence of preventable diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes and many cancers. This puts a burden on a health system which is already operating on a very tight budget as compared to other OECD countries. This OECD report shows that Latvia has many of the policies it needs to address these problems in place. However, Latvia needs to go further to ensure the health system can effectively prevent diseases, not just cure them. This will require redesigning policies to reach a larger population and efforts to educate the population to understand how to protect their health. Better screening programmes are needed, as is a stronger primary care sector, and access to essential medicines for all Latvians.
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9789264893016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLatvia sees high rates of obesity, smoking and alcohol consumption. In turn, this results in a high incidence of preventable diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes and many cancers. This puts a burden on a health system which is already operating on a very tight budget as compared to other OECD countries. This OECD report shows that Latvia has many of the policies it needs to address these problems in place. However, Latvia needs to go further to ensure the health system can effectively prevent diseases, not just cure them. This will require redesigning policies to reach a larger population and efforts to educate the population to understand how to protect their health. Better screening programmes are needed, as is a stronger primary care sector, and access to essential medicines for all Latvians.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2016-09-21
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9264262784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis review aims to support Latvia in continuing reform of its health system, informed by international best practice.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2016-03-31
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9264250506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLatvia has undergone major economic and social change since the early 1990s. Despite an exceptionally deep recession following the global financial crisis, impressive economic growth over the past two decades has narrowed income and productivity gaps relative to comparator countries in the OECD.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2016-01-07
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9264230491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTen years after the introduction of publically-funded universal health insurance, the Mexican health system finds itself at a critical juncture.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2018-02-27
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9264289607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report assesses how Kazakhstan measures up in the development and application of its national health accounts, delivering a set of recommendations to improve the health spending information necessary to support health system performance.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2021-11-09
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9264480919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHealth at a Glance provides a comprehensive set of indicators on population health and health system performance across OECD members and key emerging economies. This edition has a special focus on the health impact of COVID-19 in OECD countries, including deaths and illness caused by the virus, adverse effects on access and quality of care, and the growing burden of mental ill-health.
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2024-01-30
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 924008830X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExperience with public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic clearly demonstrates that weak public health capacities leave populations and health, economic, and social systems vulnerable. Health system challenges are increasing in number and complexity, while health system resourcing, often seen as a cost rather than an investment, remains inadequate. The limited resources available are skewed towards clinical services and emergency response, leaving persistent weaknesses in preventive, promotive and protective capacities. World Health Assembly resolution WHA69.1 of 2016 provided the World Health Organization (WHO) with a mandate to support Member States to strengthen the essential public health functions (EPHFs) while recognizing their critical role in achieving universal health coverage. This has been reaffirmed in the Declaration of Astana on Primary Health Care, 2018, and by global partners since, creating an impetus towards and need for guidance in strengthening public health stewardship and capacities informed by the EPHFs. This technical package provides a range of technical resources and flexible tools in relation to EPHFs, to support comprehensive operationalization of public health in countries. The unified list of essential public health functions (EPHFs) consists of 12 activities that can be used to operationalize public health in a country. This comprehensive approach to public health orients health systems to population need and health system risks, and governments and societies towards health and well-being. This maximizes health gains within available resources and builds resilience, while reducing population vulnerability and the overall burden on the health system. The EPHFs can be used to plan public health systems, strengthen stewardship and coordination for public health delivery at national and subnational levels, and integrate public health capacities within health and allied sectors. The EPHFs anchor protective, promotive and preventive capacities within health systems while leveraging multisectoral efforts for health. In this way, strengthening health systems with the EPHFs is central to the primary health care approach and supports the achievement of universal health coverage, health security and healthier populations in tandem.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2022-03-09
Total Pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9264422358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOECD’s periodic surveys of the Latvian economy. Each edition surveys the major challenges faced by the country, evaluates the short-term outlook, and makes specific policy recommendations. Special chapters take a more detailed look at specific challenges. Extensive statistical information is included in charts and graphs.
