What determines government spending in South Africa? The paper estimates the determinants of real per capita government spending in the Republic of South Africa, using annual data for the period 1960 to 2007, a tumultuous period during which South Africa experienced a variety of internally imposed changes (e.g., the abolition of apartheid, changes in political institutions) and externally gener...

SoC and SoC alone gained 0.3155 QALYs and 0.2752 QALYs, respectively. Hence, ranolazine plus SoC resulted in an ICER of € 4,620 per QALY gained, well below the threshold of € 34,000 per QALY gained, that is twice the annual per capita income. The PSA showed that the likelihood of ranolazine plus SoC being cost-effective at the threshold of € 34,000 per QALY gained was 100%. ConClusions: The res...

The relationship between malnutrition and social support was first suggested in the mid-1990s. Despite its plausibility, no empirical studies aimed at obtaining evidence of this association could be located. The goal of the present study was to investigate such evidence. A case-control study was carried out including 101 malnourished children (weight-for-age National Center for Health Statistic...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relation between income inequality and life expectancy in Italy and across wealthy nations. DESIGN AND SETTING Measure correlation between income inequality and life expectancy at birth within Italy and across the top 21 wealthy countries. Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated to study these relations. Multivariate linear regression was used to measure ...

We assess the impact of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality on economic growth, using a dynamic panel growth regression framework taking into account potential endogeneity problems. In the worldwide sample we detect a non-linear influence of working age CVD mortality rates on growth across the per capita income scale. Splitting the sample (according to the resulting income threshold) into lo...