Background: Financial incentives and institutions play a key role in determining health care expenditures. The health care sector in Europe is mostly publicly funded and financed in contrast to other OECD-countries. The financing is through taxes and service provision by public hospitals and...

The aim: conducting a comparative analysis of the dynamics of changes in health expenditures (%) from GDP and cash payments of families for medical and pharmaceutical support from total health expenditures in Ukraine, CIS countries and the EU (members since 2004).Materials and methods. The data...

The aim: to conduct a comparative analysis of the dynamics of health expenditures from GDP, cash expenditures of families and public expenditures on health in Ukraine, Poland and the countries of the WHO European Region.Materials and methods. The object of the research was the data of the WHO...

Aside from various economic crises faced by different countries are different time , the countries, and sometimes the world as a whole, have faced serious pandemics such as Spanish Flu, Ebola, bubonic plague and the recent COVID 19, among others. In order to boost the economy, the government...

Economic shocks represent a challenge for health systems because they decrease public revenue, and at the same time, increase the need for publicly funded health care. Since health expenditure is rapidly increasing in most countries, its efficiency must be tested. The subject of research in this...

This study examines the temporal pattern of healthcare infrastructure and manpower indicators across Indian states and regions between 2006-2020 using a composite index and data from various published sources. The study also investigates the monetary factors determining the quality and provision...

Health spending per capita in England has more than doubled since 1997, yet relatively little is known about how that spending is distributed across the population. This paper uses administrative National Health Service (NHS) hospital records to examine key features of public hospital spending...

Greece went into recession in 2009, after a decade of flourishing economic growth fluctuating annually around 4 percent; over the same period the average growth for the Eu-27 was just about 2 percent. The economic downturn had a series of adverse effects on the economy and the health sector....