OECD publishes shock report

If you do not invest in health are at risk welfare and social retention. To recover, spending is expected to increase by 1.4% of GDP compared to 2019, or 25 billion more per year in Italy.

Those are the findings of the OECD report, “Ready for the next crisis? Investing in the resilience of the health system” that outlines a catastrophic scenario if the policies of reform and investment in health in OECD countries are not implemented, trying to draw some useful lessons from what happened during the pandemic emergency from Covid to address future crises.

According to the OECD, we must invest in three key areas: health workers, primary and secondary prevention, structural and technological equipment, and data collection and surveillance systems.

To that end, the OECD proposes “six policy recommendations” to enhance the resilience of the health system:

  1. Population health promotion: vulnerable populations render health systems vulnerable.
  2. Promote the permanence and recruitment of the workforce: personnel is the key to the resilience of systems.
  3. Promotion of data collection and use: without good data, decision-makers fly blind.
  4. Promoting international cooperation: better to address a crisis together than on its own.
  5. Promoting supply chain resilience: obtaining goods and services when and where they are needed.
  6. Promoting governance and trust: without trust, society-wide responses are less effective.

To explore the topic further, we recommend you read the article published in ““Quotidiano Sanità”.

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