The OECD Health Database offers the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries. It is an essential tool to carry out comparative analyses and draw lessons from international comparisons of diverse health systems.

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Tables include:

• Alcohol consumption
• Use of vaping products
• Tobacco consumption
• Risk factors for health
• Causes of mortality
• Pharmaceuticals consumption
• Prescribing in primary care
• Hospital discharges by diagnostic categories
• Hospital average length of stay by diagnostic categories

Main health headings:

• Health expenditure and financing
• Health status
• Risk factors for health
• Healthcare human resources
• Healthcare provider resources
• Health care use
• Healthcare quality and outcomes
• Pharmaceutical market
• Long-term care
• Subnational health indicators

Examples of variables in tables:

Health Care Utilisation : Hospital discharges by diagnostic categories

·         Variable: Mental and behavioural disorders due to alcohol

·         Variable: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of other psychoactive substance 

Health Care Utilisation: Hospital average length of stay by diagnostic categories

·         Variable: Mental and behavioural disorders due to alcohol

·         Variable: Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of other psychoactive substance