Current population trends and the COVID-19 pandemic reinforce the need for efficient public service provision while guaranteeing good access to all. Population decline and ageing in rural regions affect the provision of services through lower economies of scale and scope, professional shortages...

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between ageing and the development in the aggregate health care expenditure in EU countries on a macroeconomic level when economic and institutional variables are included. The results of the model will be used to extrapolate the...

This paper extracts the policy implications from ENEPRI Research Report No. 32, prepared under Work Package VI B of the AHEAD Project (Ageing, Health Status and Determinants of Health Expenditure) for the European Commission. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship...