-communicable disease (NCDs) and risk factors across socioeconomic and demographic groups (in the Western province of Sri Lanka) and assess …

population forecast for Germany is used to isolate the effect of demographic ageing on real per-capita HCE over the next decades. … mortality rises with age and a large share of HCE is caused by proximity to death. As a consequence, rising longevity - through … falling mortality rates - may even reduce HCE. However, a weakness of previous empirical studies is that they use cross …

and mortality information, HCE growth was analyzed in Swiss mandatory health insurance for the years 1996 to 2011 and … understanding of shifts in chronic disease prevalence with rising age, as well as associated HCE and survival impacts of treatment …

which population ageing does not lead to an increase in per capita health care expenditures (HCE) because the observed … that mortality rises with age and a large share of HCE is caused by proximity to death. This hypothesis has spurned a large … studies have been rather mixed. In light of the imminent population ageing in many of these countries it is still being …