these tensions by focusing on Greece and on the delegitimising impact that the current crisis and the austerity package …

austerity measures on the health care, social services and health promotion policies in Greece. …

The severe economic crisis affecting Greece is widely expected to have a significant social impact in terms of greater … specifically, we distinguish between two inter-related factors: on the one hand, the austerity measures taken to reduce fiscal … distributional implications of both. With respect to the austerity measures, we focus on the changes introduced in spring 2010 in …

This review study explores the “brain drain” currently evident amongst physicians in Greece, which is closely linked to … the country's severe financial woes. In particular, it shows that the Greek healthcare labour market offers few …-quality healthcare by skilled physicians at times when this is mostly needed. …

Why have patterns of healthcare spending varied during the Great Recession? Using cross-national, harmonised data for … healthcare expenditure. Data from EuroStat, the IMF, and World Bank (2013 editions) were evaluated using multivariate random- and …: $1.03–4.41). IMF borrowers were significantly more likely to reduce healthcare budgets than non-IMF borrowers (OR=3 …