Resources available to the health care sector are finite and typically insufficient to fulfil all the demands for health care in the population. Decisions must be made about which treatments to provide. Relatively little is known about the views of the general public regarding the principles...

Though there is much agreement on the importance of the social determinants of health, debate continues on suitable empirically-based models to underpin efforts to tackle health and health care disparities. We demonstrate an approach that uses a dynamic micro-simulation model of the early life...

We estimate the impact on out-of-pocket (OOP) medical expenditure of a major reform in Thailand that greatly extended health insurance coverage to achieve universality while implementing supply-side measures intended to deliver cost-effective care from an increased, but modest, public health...

This study applies the GSADF test to locate multiple bubbles in the health care sector (HCS) of the U.S., U.K., and German stock markets. The panel switching model is estimated to evaluate to what extent money supply, economic growth, and stock returns from local markets influence stock returns...

The paper aims at the correspondence of the health care financing systems to the social models (welfare regimes) as defined in the social theory and policy, including the trends in the OECD and CEE countries and utilizing the lessons from typical countries. We compare the liberal,...

We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individualsÂ’ income on health care demand in the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services that are publicly and privately provided. The...

Global health care issues are driving the public sector into a balancing act between conflicting and complementary forces of inevitable change: an ageing population, the explosion of new therapeutic technologies, a critical shortage of clinical professionals, the desire to improve clinical...

В статье произведён анализ структуры Минздравсоцразвития Российской Федерации. Предложена методика определения взаимодействия его структурных подразделений....

В статье приведены примеры внедрения инноваций в сфере здравоохранения в зарубежных странах: Испании, Франции, Норвегии, Великобритании, а также проблема...

В статье раскрыты механизмы формирования региональной системы здравоохранения. Определены основные проблемы и направления развития системы. Доказана...