Health expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has improved over the years with several recent efforts to improve resource commitments to the health sector. Health outcomes in the region have, however, seen little improvements over the years. Several reasons, including the efficiency of health...

The economic crisis that started in 2008 has had a profound impact on the lives of citizens. Millions of people lost their job, saw their life-savings disappear and experienced prolonged financial hardship. The economic crisis has also led a number of OECD governments to introduce austerity...

This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in Italy. The analysis draws on the 2000 wave of the Multipurpose Survey on Household conducted by the Italian Institute of Statistics on a representative sample of the population (n =...

In this paper we test the 'red herring' hypothesis for expenditures on long-term care. The main contribution of this paper is that we assess the 'red herring' hypothesis using an aggregated measure that allows us to control for entering the final period of life on the individual level. In...

Under Medicare Part D, senior citizens choose prescription drug insurance offred by numerous private insurers. We examine non-poor enrollees' actions in 2006 and 2007 using panel data. Our sample reduced overspending by $298 on average, with gains by 81% of them. The greatest improvements were...

Este documento revisa la situación fiscal y financiera del sistema de salud en Colombia. Así mismo, analiza los problemas financieros y administrativos que enfrenta el sector, los cuales están relacionados con el aumento de la demanda por servicios excluidos del plan de beneficios de los...

Este documento revisa la situación fiscal y financiera del sistema de salud en Colombia. Así mismo, analiza los problemas financieros y administrativos que enfrenta el sector, los cuales están relacionados con el aumento de la demanda por servicios excluidos del plan de beneficios de los...

In the case of natural monopolies there tends to be a trade-off between a higher quality of output provided by private firms, and a better access for poor consumers provided by public firms. This is partly the reflection of differences in objectives by private and public firms. The former tend...

Il presente rapporto analizza l'impatto del DL 15/04/2002 n. 63 del Governo Italiano ("Misure per il contenimento della spesa farmaceutica"), con particolare riferimento agli effetti indotti da tali misure sulle decisioni di investimento delle imprese, sulla struttura dell'industria di...

El súbito desplome de la recaudación tributaria, tras un largo periodo de acelerado crecimiento del gasto sanitario público, ha hecho aflorar las tensiones financieras subyacentes. Dadas las sombrías perspectivas de crecimiento económico disponibles para España, cabe preguntarse si la...