BACKGROUND Health price inflation rate is different from increasing in health expenditures. Health expenditures contain both quantity and prices but inflation rate contains prices. This study aimed to determine the factors that affect the Inflation Rate for Health Care Services (IRCPIHC) in Iran. METHODS We used Central Bank of Iran data. We estimated the relationship between the inflation ra...

The quality of drug therapy is a major contributor to overall quality of health care. Drug therapy can increase quality, as when it stops a life-threatening infection. Medication use, however, also can cause toxicity, side effects or other adverse events. These are, in effect, new medical problems. They may lower quality of life and require additional expense to correct. Common examples include...

"Labelled drug-related public expenditure" is the direct expenditure explicitly labelled as related to illicit drugs by the general government of the state. As part of the reporting exercise corresponding to 2005, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction's network of national focal points set up in the 27 European Union (EU) Member States, Norway, and the candidates countries...

AIM To analyze the pharmacy network (structure and resources) in Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia and its relation to public expenditures for medicines. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional study using the officially published data for the period 2003-2008 in four selected countries. Data sources were relevant national institutions. RESULTS In 2008, Serbia had 27.5, Bulgaria 66.8, ...

OBJECTIVES Little research has addressed differences in health care expenditures among women who are currently experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) compared with those who are not. The purpose of this work is to provide estimates of direct medical expenditure for physician, drug, and hospital utilization among Medicaid-eligible women who screened as currently experiencing IPV compared w...