, decreases significantly in countries with higher health care absorptive capacity. The results are robust to control for a set of …

projected population ageing will have on public spending on health and long-term care. This paper provides an answer for the … Portuguese case, focusing on health care alone. All public health care outlays are considered. Profiles of real per capita health … health care expenditure. As a result of ageing alone, public spending on health care in Portugal is expected to rise from 5 …

health of a population when other data are not available. We investigate how informative this approach is in terms of … of sample for countries where we lack income and health data. …