{"id":441,"date":"2013-11-21T22:17:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T11:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2013-11-22T19:35:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T08:35:34","slug":"oecd-health-at-a-glance-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"OECD: Health at a Glance 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>one of the highest life expectancies at birth of 82 years (2 years above the average)<\/li>\n<li>top five cancer survival rates<\/li>\n<li>top five AMI survival rates<\/li>\n<li>8.9% health spend on GDP (OECD average: 9.3%)<\/li>\n<li>top three in rates of obesity &#8211; 28.3% (US &#8211; 36.5%; Mexico &#8211; 32.4%; NZ &#8211; 28.4%; UK &#8211; 24.8%)<\/li>\n<li>comparatively high rates of adverse events in hospitals &#8211; 8.6 per 100,000 (OECD average &#8211; 5)<\/li>\n<li>pressure on training pipeline, and eventually, health system financing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Medical Observer Summary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use of cholesterol-lowering drugs: 1st, 50% above OECD avg<\/li>\n<li>Use of antihypertensives: 21st, 30% below OECD average<\/li>\n<li>Fatality within 30 days of acute MI: 5th lowest, 60% below OECD avg<\/li>\n<li>Use of antidepressants: 2nd, 59% above OECD avg<\/li>\n<li>Antibiotic prescribing in primary care: 8th, 17% above OECD avg<\/li>\n<li>Pharmaceutical expenditure per capita: 9th, 21% above OECD avg<\/li>\n<li>Remuneration of specialists: 3rd, 4.3 ratio to average wage<\/li>\n<li>Remuneration of GPs: 18th, 1.7 ratio to average wage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AU Media Release (PDF):\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Health-at-a-Glance-2013-Press-Release-Australia.pdf\">Health-at-a-Glance-2013-Press-Release-Australia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OECD Report (PDF):\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Health-at-a-Glance-2013.pdf\">Health-at-a-Glance-2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Charts (PDF):\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Health-at-a-Glance-2013-Chart-set.pdf\">Health-at-a-Glance-2013-Chart-set<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OECD Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/health\/health-systems\/health-at-a-glance.htm\">http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/health\/health-systems\/health-at-a-glance.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SMH (PDF):\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Print-Article_-OECD-says-Australians-take-too-many-pills-and-must-tackle-nations-obesity-problem.pdf\">OECD says Australians take too many pills and must tackle nation&#8217;s obesity problem<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>one of the highest life expectancies at birth of 82 years (2 years above the average) top five cancer survival rates top five AMI survival rates 8.9% health spend on GDP (OECD average: 9.3%) top three in rates of obesity &#8211; 28.3% (US &#8211; 36.5%; Mexico &#8211; 32.4%; NZ &#8211; 28.4%; UK &#8211; 24.8%) comparatively &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=441\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OECD: Health at a Glance 2013<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,9,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts-data-points","category-healthcare","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}