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 … basic health care by 2020. They involve investment in medical infrastructure, generalising coverage, more focus on …

China’s exceptional economic expansion has led to rising energy demand and pollution as well as other environmental … but others, including greenhouse gas emissions, continue to rise. Poor air and water quality threaten human health, create … local level, will also be key to further progress. This Working Paper relates to the 2013 OECD Economic Survey of China (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/china …

We study health care premium subsidies in the Swiss cantons in order to understand the reasons behind the substantial … reducing the premium load for lower income groups in order to ensure universal access to health care at affordable costs. Thus …, variation in premium load is meant to reflect underlying differences between cantons in health care and overall living costs, or …

Ecofin and Oecd methodology is used to reconstruct the historical evolution of public current health care expenditure … health care needs or health care supply (simulations deal with essential levels of assistance that should be equally provided …

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 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 …

The main features of China’s current sub-national finance arrangements date back to the 1994 tax reform. China has a … government has raised the scale of transfers. Over the past decade, China’s transfer policy has addressed the horizontal … strong budgets. This Working Paper relates to the 2013 OECD Economic Survey of China (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/china …

Sanitation is at the heart of not only environmental security but also food security and health. Today about 41% of the … drinking water polluted with faecal matter. The problem is most acute in India, China, many countries of Africa and a few …