Several recent proposals have advocated using the income tax system to collect user fees to help fund the health care system. While there is a considerable amount of research investigating both how individuals respond to tax incentives for employer provided health insurance and on the effects of...

A lack of timely financing for purchases of vaccines and other health products impeded the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on analysis of contract signature and delivery dates in COVID-19 vaccine advance purchase agreements, this paper finds that 60-75 percent of the delay in...

Health is a fundamental condition for human development in a country. In Bangladesh, the share of government expenditure on healthcare has been declining for several consecutive years, resulting in several burdensome problems. The purpose of the paper is to analyze the trend of budget allocation...

BackgroundHealth expenditures are a major financial burden for many persons in low and middle-income countries. Almost a third of the total deaths globally in 2016 were caused by cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Studies suggest that the total deaths and the disease burden attributable to CVDs in...