Smoking reduces the lifetime and is responsible for the death of ten thousand persons daily. In spite of the harmful … the smoking-related statistics are unfavourable in women and children.The high prevalence of active and secondhand smoking … in Romania, the high number of daily smoked cigarettes, the increasing percentage of cessation attempts with a limited …

how potential exposure to smoking cessation advertisements varies with socio-economic status and estimates the impact of … this advertising on smoking cessation behaviour. Possible extensions to and implications for NZ are also explored. …

This review represents an attempt to bridge the significant knowledge gaps on the private health sector in Sri Lanka … of health care services. On health service delivery, the review finds that the private sector: includes a range of … public sector for its supply of human resources; and is concentrated in urban areas. The quality of health care services in …

Universal Health Coverage is a powerful framework for a nation aiming to protect their population against health risks … health coverage and improve financial protection in the last two decades. The country study, first, takes stock of UHC … progress in Vietnam, examining both the breadth and the depth of health coverage and assessing financial protection and equity …

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 …

: smoking prevalence, legislation, economics, cessation and general policy. An important advance on the 2001 exercise is that …

Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy … for the extent to which health is prioritized by governments. World Health Organization (WHO) data estimate that, in 2011 …, health's share of aggregate government expenditure in the 170 countries for which data were available averaged 12 percent …

The aim of Health in All Policies (HiAP) is to bring diverse sectors together to find shared solutions; it focuses on … identifying 'win-win' or 'cobenefits' such that policy measures contribute not only to improved health outcomes but also to … consideration into the policy decision-making process of how public policies and programs affect community health and well-being. It …

This paper investigates the health status of the population in a transition economy. Against a background of falling … living standards compounded by the widening income inequality a deterioration of health status has been outlined. Drawing … health motivation are the most significant variables which differentiate between smokers and non-smokers. Respondent’s age …