This report is the outcome of a collective effort with contributions from a team of policy analysts from the OECD Health Division of the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS). Ana Llena-Nozal led the team and co-ordinated the project and the publication. The overview Chapter 1 was written by Ana Llena-Nozal, drawing on the analyses carried out in other chapters, who benefited from in-depth comments by Francesca Colombo. Principal authors of the chapters were Ana Llena-Nozal: Chapters 4 and 5; Liliane Moreira (OECD at the time of writing): Chapters 5 and 6; Thomas Rapp (OECD at the time of writing): Chapters 2, 3 and 4; Eileen Rocard: Chapters 2 and 4. Sarah Nedjar-Calvet (OECD at the time of writing) provided research assistance to Chapter 6. Jacob Wright (McMaster University) contributed to Chapters 2, 3 and 4. Other contributors to the report include Kate Cornford, Akiko Maeda, Gaetan Lafortune, Alberto Marino, Karolina Socha-Dietrich, and Elina Suzuki.
The authors would like to thank the country delegates and experts who provided responses to the scoping survey and questionnaire, as well as those who participated in interviews for the report. The report benefited from information gathered through interviews from various experts during fact-finding missions to France, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands and Portugal. The report also benefited from the very helpful comments received by delegates from the OECD Health Committee meeting.
We are grateful to Jonathan Chaloff and Jean-Christophe Dumont for comments on Chapter 2, to Annelore Verhagen for comments on Chapter 3, to Christopher Prinz and Andrea Garnero for comments on Chapter 4. Thanks also go to Lucy Hulett, Eileen Rocard and Lukasz Lech for their administrative support and help in preparing the manuscript for publication. We are very grateful to Francesca Colombo, Head of the Health Division, for supervising the preparation of this report and providing useful comments on various drafts. We also thank Stefano Scarpetta and Mark Pearson, Director and Deputy Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs at the OECD for their guidance and extensive comments on various versions of the report.
This document was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the OECD member countries or the European Union.