Low birth weight trends in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, 2000–2015: economic, health system and demographic conditionings

Challenges for health systems in member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

For reasons of equity most OECD countries have chosen to base their funding of health care mainly on public sources. There is an almost universal problem of affordability in the health systems of these countries, arising from the tension between the willingness of populations to pay taxes and the eagerness of patients to use health services where these are free or heavily subsidized at the poin...

Safety Considerations for Biotechnology 1992 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Towards an Analytical Framework Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Nuclear Energy Agency Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

For more than 20 years, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has been conducting international studies related to the partitioning and transmutation (P&T) of nuclear waste, including physics, chemistry and material issues, as well as fuel cycle and radioactive waste management strategies. The information exchange meetings on actinide and fission product partitioning and transmutation, organised...

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Until the late thirties, the known effects of radiation were the injuries to the superficial tissues, the changes in the blood and derangement of internal organs. Because of the existence of thresholds for the appearance of these effects the corner stone of radiological protection was the limitation of exposure below a level considered as tolerable to avoid any dangers of over exposure From the...