study by Masood et al. [2012]. Taking into account the collective flow of sugared goods (sugar, syrup, honey), in fact the per capita sugar consumption in Switzerland was 42.3 kg in 2004 and has not changed significantly since [Swiss Farmers’ Union, 2010]. The World Health Organization [2011] also reported a sugar consumption of about 40 kg per capita per year in Switzerland. Thus, sugar consum...

achieving to sustainable development requires high attention to environmental problems so in this head line, examining the relation between economic growth and environment quality gives us an outlook of optimum economic development. for this purpose, different development programs were investigated. variables used in this model were propagation co2 per capita (as a proxy of pollution ), gdp per...

CONTEXT Wide variations in Medicare expenditures exist across regions, but little is known about whether beneficiaries residing in low-expenditure regions perceive receiving lower-quality care than those in high-expenditure regions. OBJECTIVE To evaluate how Medicare beneficiaries' perceptions of their health care are related to per capita expenditure in the areas where they live. DESIGN, SET...

In 1966, spending for personal health care in the U.S. was $39 billion. By 1978, these expenditures had grown to $166 billion. Among regions and states, different patterns and levels of spending emerged, along with different rates of growth. Some of the highlights from the accompanying report which pinpoint personal health care spending differences among regions and states are listed below. In ...

Opportunity inequality and its relationship with economic growth is a concept to which not enough attention has been paid in the previous studies. This study attempts to investigate the effects of opportunity inequality index on economic growth in 15 developing and 15 developed countries over the years 1995-2015. Accordingly, the mean group (MG) estimator within the framework of panel data was ...

Increasingly the governments are facing pressures to increase budgetary allocations to social sectors. Recently there has been suggestion to increase the government budget allocations to health sector and increase it to 3 per cent of GDP. Is this feasible goal and in what time-frame? Health being State subject in India and much depends on the ability of the State governments to allocate higher ...

This paper analyzes the effects of socio-economic factors on life expectancy. Using multiple regression analysis, the paper shows that there is a positive strong correlation between life expectancy as an independent variable and per capita income, health expenditures, literacy rate and daily calorie intake. Also, it shows that there is a negative strong correlation between life expectancy and n...