Towards actionable international comparisons of health system performance: expert revision of the OECD framework and quality indicators.

OBJECTIVE: To review and update the conceptual framework, indicator content and research priorities of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Health Care Quality Indicators (HCQI) project, after a decade of collaborative work. DESIGN: A structured assessment was carried out using a modified Delphi approach, followed by a consensus meeting, to assess the suite of HCQI for international comparisons, agree on revisions to the original framework and set priorities for research and development. SETTING: International group of countries participating to OECD projects. PARTICIPANTS: Members of the OECD HCQI expert group. RESULTS: A reference matrix, based on a revised performance framework, was used to map and assess all seventy HCQI routinely calculated by the OECD expert group. A total of 21 indicators were agreed to be excluded, due to the following concerns: (i) relevance, (ii) international comparability, particularly where heterogeneous coding practices might induce bias, (iii) feasibility, when the number of countries able to report was limited and the added value did not justify sustained effort and (iv) actionability, for indicators that were unlikely to improve on the basis of targeted policy interventions. CONCLUSIONS: The revised OECD framework for HCQI represents a new milestone of a long-standing international collaboration among a group of countries committed to building common ground for performance measurement. The expert group believes that the continuation of this work is paramount to provide decision makers with a validated toolbox to directly act on quality improvement strategies.

Wages and productivity: the role of labour market institutions in OECD countries

In the context of a monetary union, to keep a territorial equilibrium in terms of economic activity and employment, the relationship between real wages and productivity is crucial. In this paper, empirical evidence about the response of wages to productivity is obtained for 20 OECD countries and the role of labour market institutions to explain differences in this response is analysed.

Inhimillinen pääoma ja koulutuspolitiikka OECD arvioiden valossa

Katsauksessa käsitellään OECD:n ja EU:n piirissä viime vuosina tehtyä työtä koulutuksen taloudellisen analyysin alueella.

Geographie öfver konungariket Swerige samt dårunder hörande länder : författad af Eric Tuneld ... Tredje bandet, som innehåller Norrland, Lappland, Finland och Sweriges utrikes besittningar.

On the flyleaf (back): handwritten text, dated Mars/April 1831.

Voidaanko kansallista koulutuspolitiikkaa tutkia enää ilman kansainvälistä tai ylikansallista kehystä? : keskustelua globalisaatiosta, OECD:n arvioinneista ja suomalaisesta korkeakoulupolitiikasta

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OECD iLibrary - OECD’s global knowledge base

Michel Guinand's and Dan Ahlskog's presentation in the OECD iLibrary Seminar in Helsinki on the 25th of September and in Tampere on the 26th of September.