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 …

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 …

sports in general and in any of the publicly funded sports facilities in particular. Moreover, improved well-being and health …

sports in general and in any of the publicly funded sports facilities in particular. Moreover, improved well-being and health …

This paper studies the impact of the health decentralization of funds and responsibilities that took place in Mexico in … 1997 on state level health outcomes. It renders two main results. First, the magnitude of transfers from the federal …-reform health expenditures of the federal government in each state. Second, decentralization did not boost the advances in health …