Health spending slowed markedly or fell in many OECD countries recently after years of continuous growth, according to … OECD Health Data 2012. As a result of the global economic crisis which began in 2008, a zero rate of growth in health … expenditure was recorded on average in 2010, and preliminary estimates for 2011 suggest that low or negative growth in health …

number of OECD governments to introduce austerity measures to reduce public deficits. The health sector, like many other … combined effects of economic crisis, austerity and reforms have led many OECD health systems into unchartered territory ….<p> This paper looks at the impact of economic crisis on health and health care. It summarises findings from the published …

The global economic crisis which began in 2008 has had a dramatic effect on health spending across OECD countries …. Estimates of expenditure on health released back in 2012 showed that, for the first time, health spending had slowed markedly or … fallen across many OECD countries after years of continuous growth. As a result, close to zero growth in health expenditure …

Alcohol policies have significant potential to curb alcohol-related harms, improve health, increase productivity … price policies, regulation and enforcement policies, education programmes and health care interventions. The results of the …, which affect all drinkers, have the potential to generate large health gains. The impacts of regulation and enforcement …

The ratio of health expenditure to GDP, which in macroeconomic terms is an indicator which summarises the financing … needs of a national health system, is likely to rise in countries for which the GDP falls. Over the past four decades …, health expenditure has risen in most countries at a faster rate than GDP, leading to a rise in the expenditure ratio …

diseases may provide the means for increasing social welfare, enhancing health equity, or both, relative to a situation in … severity of the outcomes arising from them. A positive impact of such interventions on social welfare and health equity should …

Concerns about health expenditure growth and its long-term sustainability have stimulated the development of health …