The measurement of the impact of technology as a driver of health care expenditure is complex since technological … effects are closely interlinked with other determinants such as income and the composition and health status of a population …. Furthermore, the impact of the supply of advances in technology on health expenditure cannot be considered in isolation from …

efficiency incentives. Disparities of coverage across social groups and health services suggest paying greater attention to co …France’s health-care system offers high-quality care. Average health outcomes are good, public satisfaction with the … health-care system is high, and average household out-of-pocket expenditures are low. As in other OECD countries, technology …

This report, part of the “Cities” collection, analyses the spatial distribution of formal enter¬prises and health … the potential for economic development throughout the country. The mapping of health infrastructure shows that border …. The report identifies several regions in which closer co-operation could favour the establishment of cross-border health …

This paper investigates the causal effect of public administration efficiency on firm-level productivity. To this … purpose, we combine newly available data from Italy on public administration efficiency of subnational governments with geo … administration efficiency and firm productivity because of large and persistent spatial disparities in economic performance and local …