Introduction The sustainability of public hospital financing in Spain is a recurring issue, given
its representativeness in annual public healthcare budgets which must adapt to the …

Aims We sought to understand the evolution of Spanish public hospital expenditure by
assessing its elasticity to volume versus price, controlling for need and case severity, from …

Abstract Background In Spain, hospital expenditure represents the biggest share of overall
public healthcare expenditure, the most important welfare system directly run by the …

In 2003, Mexico conducted a major health reform that transformed its health system to
gradually extend health care insurance coverage to more than 50 million uninsured. The …

In recent decades, several countries have reformed their health care systems leading to the
devolution of power to a lower governance level and, subsequently, to re-centralisation. Due …

Objective To analyze the relationship between the degree of development of hospital cost
systems (CS) implemented by the regional health services (RHS) and the variation in unit …

As hospital inpatient care accounts for 30% of total health expenditure, and as health
expenditure will continue rising, due to ageing populations and costly technological …

Administrative tasks are essential at all levels of the health care system, from ministries and
insurers to health providers. Many tasks are vital to ensure access, equity and quality of …

The financial sustainability of public health systems (PHS) is currently threatened by
population growth, increased prevalence of chronic conditions and disabilities, inequality in …

The funding of public hospitals is an issue that has been of great concern to health systems
in the past decades. Public hospitals are owned and fully funded by the government …