this paper examines the impact of government expenditure on the nigerian economy for the period 1983 - 2012. the government expenditure components used as the explanatory variables in the model are: expenditures on health, education, defense, agriculture and transportation and communication. the gross domestic product (gdp) was used as a parameter for measuring economic growth. in order to esta...

BACKGROUND Smoking cessation services provide support to smokers who desire to quit. Published studies to date have looked at the cost and benefit of service provision but typically focus on clinical trial data. Using routinely collected observational data, this study examined the costs involved in providing a service in terms of average health care expenditure per successful quit attempt in ad...

background and aims. irrational prescription of antibiotics by clinicians might lead to drug resistance. clinicians do prescribe antibiotics for either prophylactic or therapeutic reasons. the decision of when and what to prescribe leaves room for misuse and therefore it is imperative to continuously monitor knowledge and pattern of prescription. the aim of the present study was to determine th...

BACKGROUND Transparency has become a hottest topic and a growing movement in the health care system worldwide. This study used a quasi-experimental design method to explore whether public reporting of medicine use information can improve rational drug use. METHODS 20 township hospitals and 274 doctors of City Y in Hubei Province, China were divided into the intervention and control groups on ...

background and purpose: utilization of health care services and food influence the health status. the food and health care expenditure ratios determine the importance level of them in household's consumption expenditures. we aimed to investigate the iranian rural and urban food and health expenditure ratios inequality during 1998 to 2012. materials and methods: this is a descriptive longit...

Introduction: There is an urgent need to evaluate the factors contributing increased health expenditures in patients with diabetes mellitus, especially cost of drugs used treat Type 2 mellitus (T2DM) economically developing countries. Methods: We compared oral antidiabetic using prices two large Mexican pharmaceutical retail corporations. The prescribed daily dose was utilized for each drug, an...

abstracta number of economists argue that the capital expenditure has a positive impact and the current expenditure has negative impact on output while others believe that the government expenditure, regardless of being current or capital spending, has a negative impact on the economy. in this direction, this paper tries to investigate the impact of current and capital government expenditure on...

The purpose of this analysis is to estimate the impact Medicaid expansion in 2014 on healthcare services among asthma patients. A retrospective cross-section study was conducted patients aged 26-64 years United States between 2007-2018 using Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys. total expenditure and utilization services, including prescription drugs, emergency department (ED) visits, hospital inp...