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Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2015-09-24
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9264233385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe health systems we enjoy today, and expected medical advances in the future, will be difficult to finance from public resources without major reforms. Public health spending in OECD countries has grown rapidly over most of the last half century. These spending increases have contributed to ...
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Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2021-12-15
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9240040331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elizabeth Bradley
Publisher: Public Affairs
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1610392094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsiders why U.S. society is believed to be less healthy in spite of disproportionate spending on health care, identifying a lack of social services, outdated care allocations, and a resistance to government programs as the problem.
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Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2021-12-15
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9240041214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2010-10-07
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9264088814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication examines current efforts to improve health care efficiency, including tools that show promise in helping health systems provide the best care for their money.
Author: Sarah Thomson
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 2015-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780335264001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEconomic shocks pose a threat to health and health system performance by increasing people's need for health care and making access to care more difficult - a situation compounded by cuts in public spending on health and other social services. But these negative effects can be avoided by timely public policy action. While important public policy levers lie outside the health sector, in the hands of those responsible for fiscal policy and social protection, the health system response is critical. This book looks at how health systems in Europe reacted to pressure created by the financial and economic crisis that began in 2008. Drawing on the experience of over 45 countries, the authors:' analyse health system responses to the crisis in three policy areas: public funding for the health system; health coverage; and health service planning, purchasing and delivery 'assess the impact of these responses on health systems and population health' identify policies most likely to sustain the performance of health systems facing financial pressure' explore the political economy of implementing reforms in a crisisThe book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the choices available to policy-makers - and the implications of failing to protect health and health-system performance - in the face of economic and other forms of shock.--
Author: Emanuele Baldacci
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing data for a sample of developing and transition countries, this paper estimates the relationship between government spending on health care and education, and social indicators. Unlike previous studies, where social indicators are used as proxies for the unobservable health and education status of the population, this paper estimates a latent variable model. The findings suggest that public social spending is an important determinant of social indicators, particularly in the education sector. Overall, the latent variable approach was found to yield more adequate estimates of social production functions, with larger elasticities of social indicators with respect to income and spending on education than the traditional approach, providing stronger evidence that increases in public spending have a positive impact on social indicators. The study also finds that the millennium goal of universal primary education enrollment by 2015 could be achieved through an increase by one-third, on average, in education spending.
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2022-12-06
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9240064915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe results of the report clearly show that in 2020, a year dominated by the emergence of COVID-19 and its associated health and economic crises, governments around the world rose to the challenge. Sharp increases in government spending on health at all country income levels underpinned the rise in health spending to a new high of US $9 trillion (approximately 11% of global GDP). Government health spending generally increased and offset declines in out-of-pocket spending. Importantly, the rise in government health spending was part of a much broader fiscal response to the pandemic. In high income and upper-middle income countries social protection spending also increased sharply in as governments attempted to cushion populations from the economic impacts of COVID-19. In contrast to health and social protection, growth in education spending was relatively subdued. Countries face the further challenge of sustaining increased public spending on health and other social sectors in the face of deteriorating macroeconomic conditions and rising debt servicing. This also includes the challenge of sustaining external support for low income countries, which is essential for reducing ensuring poverty, ensuring access to health services and strengthening pandemic preparedness.
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Publisher: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1977. ; [Washington, D.C. : Sold by OECD Publications Center]
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 146
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1977 report deals with the major economic implications of increasing health expenditure.
Author: Mr.Sanjeev Gupta
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Published: 2001-09-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781451854985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis paper estimates the impact of public spending on the poor's health status in over 70 countries. It provides evidence that the poor have significantly worse health status than the rich and that they are more favorably affected by public spending on health care. An important new result is that the relationship between public spending and the health status of the poor is stronger in low-income countries than in higher-income countries. However, the results suggest that increased public spending alone will not be sufficient to meet international commitments for improvements in health status.
