Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades … public sector interventions, notably reproductive health and immunization, supported by external assistance from the World …

GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF … REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO … ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES, ESPECIALLY FOR THE POOR IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES SUCH AS NIGERIA, THE …

Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of … reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to … accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades, especially for the poor in African countries such as Nigeria, the …

would be needed in key human service areas, such as health and aged care, where the pressures of an ageing population will …

This paper presents the National Health Accounts (NHA) methodology and its relevance in policy making in the Latin … activities, the paper will focus on policy applications of NHA and its usefulness in supporting the financial dimension of health … institutionalization), the main message of this paper is a normative one: NHA should become the Management Information System for health …

The economic cost of the U.S. health care system goes beyond the cost of prescription drugs, doctor office visits and … being an industrialized economy. The high health care costs drive jobs, human capital and technology to countries where … wages and health care costs are lower as companies attempt to survive. This holistic perception to health care cost is a …

The richer a country, the higher its expenditure on health care. The increase in health spending which compared to the … economic growth and the expansion of other countries’ health care systems, Austria’s system grew below average- a fact which … unascertained but highly probable improvements in productivity in the main fields of health care. Within our observation period of …

We set up an open-economy, three-country version of the endogenous- mortality model of Lagerloef (forthcoming in the … International Economic Review). The model is calibrated to pre-industrial mortality data from England, France and Sweden. Fitting … parameters to match observed rates of correlation in mortality rates, the model can also account for: (1) differences in the …

This research demonstrates that human capital accumulation by the poor is only possible if a minimum level of health … and health care, and finance is not available for this purpose, a poverty trap exists with low health, education and … nutrition and health impairing human potential, and in particular early child development. This link between health and …