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 …

To judge a health care system, it is necessary to analyse its results in terms of health and to bring them back to its … economic effectiveness. Health outcomes can be evaluated in several ways but none of them is really representative. To locate … the performance in terms of health for the French system, we thus compared France with four European countries (Germany …

empirical and theorical works. Today, Health Economics is faced with new requirements of society, i.e. better care at a … sustainable cost. Furthermore, since the problems linked with health care system and with the health status are more and more … connected with the economic sphere, a global approach of Health Economics proves necessary. Prior to the development of such an …