reprioritization, one of the modalities for realizing fiscal space for health. Theory and cross-country empirical analyses do not … provide clear, cut explanations for the observed variations in government prioritization of health. Standard economic theory …Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy …

issue globally, undermining health gains and imposing financial and economic costs on governments and households. NCDs are … an important health challenge in the Pacific. First, (NCDs) can impose large but often preventable health, financial, and … bulk of health services. Second, risk factors in the Pacific are feeding a pipeline of potentially expensive-to-treat NCDs …

This chapter examines the relationship between health and economic growth. Across countries, income per capita is … highly correlated with health, as measured by life expectancy or a number of other indicators. Within countries, there is … also a correlation between people’s health and income. Finally, over time, the historical evolution of cross-country health …

The policies for better health, poverty reduction, and less inequality, throughout the world, require thorough … understanding of both the processes and causal paths that underlie the intricate relationship between health and wealth (income …). This is deemed difficult, contingent, and only partially understood. The adage 'health is wealth' is still, primarily, an …

The policies for better health, poverty reduction, and less inequality, throughout the world, require thorough … understanding of both the processes and causal paths that underlie the intricate relationship between health and wealth (income …). This is deemed difficult, contingent, and only partially understood. The adage 'health is wealth' is still, primarily, an …

This paper revisits the relationship between health and growth in light of modern endogenous growth theory. We propose … a unified framework that encompasses the growth effects of both, the accumulation and the level of health. Based on …

about the augmented Preston curve relate to discussions of health policy. …

While universal health coverage (UHC) offers a powerful goal for a nation, all countries-irrespective of income are … struggling with achieving or sustaining UHC. France is a high-income country where HC is in effect universal. Health …-related costs are covered by a mix of mandatory social health insurance (SHI) and private complementary schemes, while benefit …

Drug-overdose deaths, which have more than doubled over the past decade, represent a growing public-health concern …-related mortality is lacking. I analyze the effect of substance-abuse treatment on mortality by exploiting county-level variation in … county's drug-induced mortality rate by 2%. The estimated effects persist across individual and county characteristics and …