Evidence suggests that demand-side barriers may be as important as supply factors in
deterring patients from obtaining treatment. Yet relatively little attention is given, either by …

Countries have reached universal health coverage by different paths and with varying health
systems. Nonetheless, the trajectory toward universal health coverage regularly has three …

BACKGROUND Cost-effectiveness analysis involves the comparison of the incremental cost-
effectiveness ratio of a new technology, which is more costly than existing alternatives, with …

Background Patient satisfaction is an important measure of healthcare quality as it offers
information on the provider's success at meeting clients' expectations and is a key …

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook,
providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory …

The rapid growth of health expenditure has become a great concern for both households
and governments. There is extensive literature on the determinants of health expenditure in …

Over the past half century, Americans spent a rising share of total economic resources on
health and enjoyed substantially longer lives as a result. Debate on health policy often …

Abstract Using 1960–2012 annual time-series data for modelling, we apply the
Autoregressive Distributed Lag Cointegration (ARDL) approach, to identify some major …

This paper uses the latest data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) to compare the health systems of the thirty member countries in 2000 …

Background This paper studies the temporal consistency of health care expenditures in a
large state Medicaid program. Predictive machine learning models were used to forecast the …