This paper considers the relative healthcare expenditure needs of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It applies the NHS weighted capitation formula – used to allocate resources to English Primary Care Trusts – to Health Boards in Wales and Scotland and Health and Social Care Trusts in Northern Ireland. According to this formula, per capita healthcare expenditure need in Wales is 16%...

State health departments bear considerable expenditure due to tobacco-related hospitalisations. We present a straightforward formula, based on aetiological fractions (attributable risks), with which to estimate tobacco-related expenditure in a way relevant and meaningful to state health departments and hospital managers. Tobacco was responsible for 43 571 hospitalisations in New South Wales in ...

health insecurity has emerged as a major concern among health policy-makers particularly in low- and middle-income countries (lmics). it includes the inability to secure adequate healthcare today and the risk of being unable to do so in the future as well as impoverishing healthcare expenditure. the increasing health insecurity among 150 million of the world’s poor has moved social protection i...

This paper investigates the association between different kinds of budgetary expenditure and economic growth of Poland. The empirical analysis makes use of linear and nonlinear Granger causality tests to evaluate the applicability of Wagner’s Law and that of the contrasting Keynesian theory. We employ aggregate and disaggregate data with the sub-categories of most important budgetary expenditur...

BACKGROUND Implementing initiatives to achieve the targets of MDG 5 requires sufficient financial resources that are mobilized and utilized in an equitable, efficient and sustainable manner. Informed decision making to this end requires the availability of reliable health financing information. This is accomplished by means of Reproductive Health (RH) sub-account, which captures and organizes e...

the study is focused on the public-private partnership in health sector in sri lanka. as a developing country, sri lanka faces a challenging task in order to improve the infrastructure facilities of the country after ending the thirty years of war. there is a requirement to develop the country as a whole along with all the industries such as education, health, transport, agriculture, etc. to me...

OBJECTIVE The paper examines whether out-of-pocket health care expenditure also has regional discrepancies, comparing to the equity between urban and rural areas, and across households. METHOD Sampled data were derived from Urban Household Survey and Rural Household Survey data for 2011/2012 for Anhui Province, and 11049 households were included in this study. The study compared differences i...

BACKGROUND National health accounts provide useful information to understand the functioning of a health financing system. This article attempts to present a profile of the health system financing in Malawi using data from NHA. It specifically attempts to document the health financing situation in the country and proposes recommendations relevant for developing a comprehensive health financing ...

The observation that average health care expenditure rises with age generally leads experts and laymen alike to conclude that population ageing is the main driver of health care costs. In recently published studies we challenged this view (Zweifel et al., 1999 and Felder et al., 2000). Analysing health care expenditure of deceased persons, we showed that age is insignificant if proximity to dea...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the expenditure on dental care of Mexican households, analyze their trends, and determine the factors associated with the decision to spend and the amount of money spent in 2000, 2002, and 2004. MATERIAL AND METHODS Using the National Survey of Household Income and Expenditure for 2000, 2002, and 2004, the national dental health care expenditure was calculated. To facili...