The impact of ageing on health expenditure has recently attracted from policy makers and academics. Majority of studies, however, focus on developed countries, where health care systems are well developed. In China, where old age dependency ratio has grown faster than in most countries and the health care system has moved away from a public to a largely self-financed system, the issue of whethe...

BACKGROUND During recent decades household incomes have increased steadily, leading to changes in dietary habits and food expenditure. AIM To report changes in household food expenditure focusing on trends in processed food across income quintiles in Metropolitan Santiago. MATERIAL AND METHODS Information obtained from the Fourth (1986-1987), Fifth (1996-1997) and Sixth National Institute o...

As long-term care policy makers struggle with competing challenges including state budget deficits and pressures to expand homeand community-based services (HCBS), there is a pressing need for information on the comparative cost of Medicaid HCBS and institutional care. This paper uses the most recent available data (2002) to present three per participant expenditure comparisons between Medicaid...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the trend of expenditure on drug-related psychiatric hospital admissions in Maringá, Paraná, Brazil, from 1999 to 2012. METHOD Ecological time series research with secondary data from the hospital information system of the unified health system ("SIH-SUS"). The records of admissions with a main diagnosis of drug abuse were used to calculate average expenditure. Chapter V ...

OBJECTIVES Women boxing have got recognition recently and so far no work has been reported on energy expenditure of national women boxers in India. This study was aimed to estimate the energy expenditure in Indian female boxers during sparring. METHODS A total of 20 female boxers were subjected. Energy expenditure was estimated using the same individual's HR-VO2 regression equation. Heart rat...

This paper provides an overview of a study by Productivity Commission staff that sought to quantify the effects of domestic and foreign R&D on Australia’s productivity performance. The estimates obtained were sensitive and imprecise and standard models were shown to be mis-specified. The use of capitalised R&D expenditure to proxy knowledge stocks is one possible contributor to the estimation p...

The enlargement of the EU has implications for the national defence requirements and therefore national defence policy of European nations. In light of the freedom of movement of citizens between member states it is appropriate to consider the implications of a country’s military expenditure for it’s macroeconomy and specifically on the flows of migration between member states. Traditionally in...

The National Medical Care Expenditure Survey (NMCES) was characterized by a longitudinal survey design, with data collection targeted to five points in time covering the survey year. Field conditions did not allow for all interviews to be conducted over the targeted time periods. A subset of sampled households (holdovers) were not contacted for a particular wave of the survey and data were gath...

The first publication on the consumption of households in Sweden was in 1961 by Statistics Sweden. Since then, Family Expenditure Surveys or Family Food Expenditure surveys have been carried out in 1969, 1978, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1995, and 1996. The most recent publication is the Household Budget Survey (HBS) expenditure and income report in 2003. However, data on quantities of food purchas...

In their paper about progress towards universal health coverage in Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China, South Africa (BRICS),1 Rao et al. report that in India in 2011, of total government expenditure, about 8% was expended on health. This estimate was from the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) global health observatory data respository,2 which is based on national health accounts. Fo...