This presentation was made by Ivor Beazley, OECD Secretariat, at the 6th Meeting of the Joint OECD DELSA-GOV Network on Fiscal Sustainability of Health Systems, held at the OECD Conference Centre, Paris, on 18-19 September 2017

1. HEALTH SECTOR
PRODUCTIVITY
Ivor Beazley, OECD
18 September, 2017

2. The sustainability challenge
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AxisTitle
Comparing health expenditure growth and GDP growth
Health
GDP
Source OECD, 2017

3. The productivity issue

4. Key measurement challenges
• What the right unit of output for
measuring productivity (economy wide,
institutional level, disease/treatment,
individual?)
• How to value outputs - absent market
comparators – or collective goods (e.g
public health)
• How to adjust for differences in the quality
of outputs

5. Untying the knot
Peter
Smith