Health services are largely tax-financed in the United Kingdom and account for 14 per cent of general government … spending. This paper analyses how the National Health Service (NHS) has been dealing with the associated expenditure pressures …

Overall, the health of the Irish population has improved substantially during recent decades and is quite good compared …. Population ageing is exacerbating spending pressures. In addition, the health sector is dealing with past underspending … health areas is set to support more decentralised decision-making, but information systems to track spending and reform …

Overall, health outcomes in China have improved tremendously over the past three decades, especially thanks to the … owing to changes in life styles and deteriorating environmental conditions. Supply of health care is overwhelmingly provided … areas. As a result, coverage and use of medical facilities has increased a lot, except for migrants. In practice, however …

towards universal health coverage, the financing and organisation of the health care system could be improved to raise the …

agricultural land for building. For migrants to better integrate in the cities where they work, their access and that of their … families to education, health and other social services must continue to improve, in particular via further changes to the … fait des économies d’échelle générées par l’urbanisation, enregistrent un afflux massif de migrants. Parallèlement, l …

to become more effective, in particular in the areas of health care, education and social assistance. On the revenue side …

health would come from population-wide preventive measures. Access to public health care services varies substantially … public health services, more health professionals and public health care spending will be needed to ensure broad and adequate … health-care coverage. Priority should be given to high impact primary health care services. For more resources to translate …

health and long-term care. Policy action to integrate the Roma, around one-tenth of the population most of which live in …