Background The COVID-19 outbreak was defned as a pandemic on 11 March 2020 by the World Health Organization. After that, COVID-19 has enormously infuenced health systems around the world, and it has claimed more than 4.2 million deaths until July 2021. The pandemic has led to global health,...

Background Health science is evolving extremely rapidly at worldwide level. There is a large volume of articles about health economics that are published each year. The main purpose of this research is to explore health economics in the world's scholarly literature based on a scient metric...

In this survey of recent research in health economics, I concentrate on studies that have appeared since 1971 or are in progress. The survey reflects in part my own research interests and biases and is not meant to be comprehensive. Four topics are covered: (1) demand for adults' health and...

Background: Compared with conventional top down costing, micro-costing may provide a more accurate method of resource-use assessment in economic analyses of surgical interventions, but little is known about its current use. The aim of this study was to systematically-review the use of...