BACKGROUND Limited research is focused on suicides in children aged below 15 years. AIMS To analyse worldwide suicide rates in children aged 10-14 years in two decades: 1990-1999 and 2000-2009. METHOD Suicide data for 81 countries or territories were retrieved from the World Health Organization Mortality Database, and population data from the World Bank data-set. RESULTS In the past two d...

BACKGROUND Is existing provision of health services in Europe affordable during the recession or could cuts damage economic growth? This debate centres on whether government spending has positive or negative effects on economic growth. In this study, we evaluate the economic effects of alternative types of government spending by estimating "fiscal multipliers" (the return on investment for each...

generality. Even though the reductionist assumptions of economic models are certainly imperfect as descriptions of real migration behaviour, refinements of the 532 D. Radu

Ghana is a middle-income West African country which experienced impressive economic growth from 2005 to 2012. This growth has slowed significantly since 2013 in light of macro-economic challenges, such as high budget deficit and inflation, but is still expected to remain positive, due to the country’s stable democratic institutions and rich natural resources.1 Per capita GDP reached US$ 1 858 i...

Health Sector Reform and Social Determinants of Health are central issues for the current international policy debate, considering the turbulent scenario and the threat of economic recession in a global scale. Although these themes have been discussed for a long time, three major issues still calls the attention of the scientific community and health policymakers. The first one is the matter of...

This article offers a theory of economic growth, stagnation, and demo-economic transition that originates from external effects of childbearing, health expenditure, and education under endogenous mortality. Facing a hierarchy of needs, parents always consume and want to have a family. Child quality, measured as a two-dimensional vector of child health and schooling, becomes only affordable when...

This paper puts health questions within the context of national development and industrial policy. It follows the idea of structuralist, Marxist and Schumpeterian approaches, in which industry and innovations form determining factors for the dynamism in capitalist economies and relative positions within the world economy. All countries that have developed and started to compete under better con...

Concern about the sustainability of public pension and health care systems in the face of aging populations has policymakers in developed countries looking to the contributions that older workers might make to economic growth and the alleviation of rising support burdens. Governments in countries throughout Western Europe, where employment rates often fall sharply after age 55, have recently in...