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OECD Health Data 2010 on CD-ROM provides over 1200 indicators on health and health care systems in OECD countries, with data as recent as 2007/2008 and as far back as far as 1960. Coverage is provided for health status of people, health care financing, health care resources, social protection, health care utilisation, the pharmaceuticals market, long-term care resources and utilisation, non-medical determinants of health, expenditure on health, and demographic and economic references. Available with English, French, German and Spanish interfaces, OECD Health Data 2010 uses fast, user-friendly Windows-based software which enables users to carry out data extractions and build customised graphs and tables. The online version of OECD Health Data 2010 additionally offers Italian, Japanese and Russian languages to query the database. Free technical assistance and annual data and software update are accessible via the Internet. OECD Health Data is an essential tool for policy advisors in governments, health researchers in the private sector and the academic community to carry out comparative analyses and draw lessons from cross-country comparisons of national health systems.