Although the consequences of population aging for growth in health expenditures have
been widely investigated, research on this topic is rather fragmented. Therefore, these …

OBJECTIVES. This study investigated the association between health care systems and
health indicators in developed countries. METHODS. Cross-national comparisons were …

Current econometric research on the determinants of health care spending is characterized
by three serious shortcomings: a lack of attention to dynamics, a failure to deal with …

Health care expenditure has increased substantially in all Western industrialized countries
in the last decades. The necessity to contain the increase in health care expenditure has …

The purpose of this study was to analyse national health expenditures of OECD countries
relative to their age structures. Using econometric techniques designed to analyse cross …

The rapid growth of healthcare expenditures in the past 40 years in many industrial
countries has contributed to an improvement in life expectancy and the quality of life, but has …

International comparisons of health care expenditures and their determinants have attracted
considerable attention since the early 1960s and have since been used widely to compare …

Health expenditure in the countries of the European Union has risen faster than gross
domestic product (GDP) since 1970, namely by 3.2 percentage points in the 1970s, 0.8 in …

Health care and its financing will not be harmonized within the European Union (EU).
Therefore, the differences between the health systems of the member-states in a Single …

In order to gain further insight into the system factors responsible for changes in the health
workforce, this study undertook an empirical examination of the determinants of the size of …