Author Contact: Glen Roberts c/o David E. Giles, Dept. of Economics, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700, STN CSC, Victoria, B.C., V8W 2Y2, Canada; email: [email protected] (cc: [email protected]); FAX: (250) 721-6214 Abstract We model summer Olympic medal counts using count data analysis. The advantage of this methodology is its explicit recognition of the discrete non-negative form of the dependent...

BACKGROUND Growth failure is associated with adverse consequences, but studies need to control adequately for confounding. OBJECTIVE We related height-for-age z scores (HAZs) and stunting at age 24 mo to adult human capital, marriage, fertility, health, and economic outcomes. DESIGN In 2002-2004, we collected data from 1338 Guatemalan adults (aged 25-42 y) who were studied as children in 19...

African leaders accepted in the year 2001 through the Abuja Declaration to allocate 15% of their government expenditure on health but by 2013 only five (5) African countries achieved this target. In this paper, a comparative analysis on the impact of health expenditure between countries in the CEMAC sub-region and five other African countries that achieved the Abuja declaration is provided. Dat...

This paper empirically investigates the existence of economies scale in food consumption, share expense total household expenditure, and determinants per capita expenditure Myanmar. The study was conducted with a 400 respondents from Nay Pyi Taw region survey took place October 2021. results are presented into two sections. In first section, descriptive statistics variables such as respondents’...

In 2012, the Chatham House established a Working Group on Health Financing, of which I was a member, to deliberate on a global framework for health financing (Røttingen et al., 2014) (reference to paper by McIntyre et al., 2017). Intensive discussions and exhaustive studies brought out 20 recommendations. Of them three were important points emphasizing the need for countries to (i) ensure a min...

This review documents health care outcome in relation to health expenditure in the US and in the European Union (EU) and it attempts to interpret the root cause of observed differences. In comparison with the US where the per capita expenditure for health care is close to 8,000 international dollars, health expenditure in the Western European Countries (WEC) (France, Germany, Britain, Italy) is...

A REVIEW OF RURAL HYGIENE Dr. C. E. A. Winslow, professor of public health at the Yale School of Medicine, has undertaken a review and evaluation of the Cattaraugus County Health Demonstration, with special reference to its lessons for other rural areas.l Cattaraugus County is in New York State, and has a fairly stable population of 72,000, engaged chiefly in small inidustry and dairying, but i...

Introduction The use of healthcare delivery systems is very limited. Primarily in India public sector hospitals does not use any system for managing their health records to provide continued care to patient. The central and state governments are responsible for the provision of primary healthcare in the country. A spending of 1% of the GDP (effectively about Rs 1050 per capita) on public health...