Unemployment, Government Healthcare Spending, and Cerebrovascular Mortality, Worldwide 1981–2009: An Ecological Study

Worldwide socioeconomic status and stroke mortality: an ecological study

INTRODUCTION The effect of socioeconomic status (SES) on stroke mortality at population level has been controversial. This study explores the association of SES in childhood and adulthood with stroke mortality, as well as variations in this association among countries/regions. METHODS Sex-specific stroke mortality at country level with death registry covering ≥ 70% population was obtained fro...

Government health care spending and child mortality.

BACKGROUND Government health care spending (GHS) is of increasing importance to child health. Our study determined the relationship between reductions in GHS and child mortality rates in high- and low-income countries. METHODS The authors used comparative country-level data for 176 countries covering the years 1981 to 2010, obtained from the World Bank and the Institute for Health Metrics and...

Government Spending: An Economic Boost?

The severe global economic downturn and the large stimulus programs that governments in many countries adopted in response have generated a resurgence in research on the effects of fiscal policy. One key lesson emerging from this research is that there is no single fiscal multiplier that sums up the economic impact of fiscal policy. Rather, the impact varies widely depending on the specific fis...

Government Spending and Growth

Assessing relative spending needs of devolved government: the Case of Healthcare Spending in the UK

The UK’s devolved administrations (DAs) rely on block grants to finance most of their spending, but the level of grants allocated to them is not determined by any estimate of their spending needs. There are increasing calls to replace the current grant allocation mechanism with one which explicitly considers the DAs’ spending needs, although some commentators argue that assessing their needs is...