non-communicable disease continues to be an important public health problem in india, being responsible for a major proportion of mortality and morbidity. demographic changes, changes in the lifestyle along with increased rates of urbanization are the major reasons responsible for the tilt towards the non-communicable diseases. in india, there is no regular system for collecting data on non-com...

Introduction: The causal dynamics between environment, health expenditures and economic growth has recently started to be studied in the economics literature for both developing and developed countries. Methods: This study examines the causal relationship between CO2 emissions, health expenditures and economic growth using dynamic simultaneous-equations models for Iran over the period 1972-2...

it is found for the last two decades that there has been a rapid rise of ppps across the world. a government in developing countries like india is using ppp arrangements for improved delivery of infrastructure services and social services. public private partnerships which are an integral part of the new paradigm of good governance policy is the most recent addition in the world of society and ...

Private healthcare services in Vietnam are seen as a major part of the solution to the rapid increase in need and demand for healthcare services. Formally recognized over 20 years ago, the private health services coexist with public services and are available all over the country. However, the scale and size of private sector is still small compared to the public sector and public acceptance an...

due to the different nature of the production structure in economic sectors, growth in these sectors has a different effect on employment. on the other hand, according to market analysis by gender, the impact on job creation in economic sectors is also different for men and women. in this paper, we use social accounting matrix (sam) model for iran to assess how growth in various sectors of the ...

most developing countries have achieved productivity growth in economic sectors like agriculture for more than 30 years. universities and governmental research centers have tried to generate knowledge with direct social and economic effects during these decades. so, productivity and production growth can be attributed to technological changes made possible through investment in agricultural res...

In this chapter Iparraguirre D’Elia outlines the productivity performance of Northern Ireland between 995 and 00 . The results indicate that while Northern Ireland returned the highest rate of economic growth of all UK regions between 989 and 00 , its productivity performance has been poor, with most of the economic growth over this period being attributable to increasing employment levels. Nor...