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The Advisory Committee on Existing Chemicals (BUA) of the Federal Republic of Germany convened a panel with expertise in reproductive and developmental toxicology to evaluate the OECD Screening Tests 421 (Reproduction/Developmental Toxicity Screening Test) and 422 (Combined Repeated Dose Toxicity Study with the Reproduction/Developmental Toxicity Screening Test) with respect to their ability to...

This country section is an extract from chapter 3 of the OECD publication (2008) Environmental Performance of Agriculture in OECD countries since 1990, which is available at the OECD website indicated below. A summary version of this report is published as Environmental Performance of Agriculture: At a Glance, see the OECD website which also contains the agri-environmental indicator time series...

Since mid-1980s, the mortality from CVD has decreased at a much faster pace than the OECD average, reaching one of the lowest CVD mortality rates in the OECD at 187 per 100 000 population after France, Japan and Korea (Figure 1). Likewise, potential years of life lost, a commonly used measure of premature mortality, at 269 per 100 000 population for diseases of the circulatory system in 2011, i...

Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 96 The waiting time phenomenon ................................................................................................ 96 Evidence on comparative waiting times across OECD countries ........................................ 101 Evidence on causes ...

This article provides an overview of current trends in health expenditures in 29 OECD countries and recent revisions of OECD health accounts. U.S. health expenditures are compared with those of other OECD countries. The interactions of cost-containment measures with changes in the public-private mix of financing and in the composition of health care spending are discussed.