"Labelled drug-related public expenditure" is the direct expenditure explicitly labelled as related to illicit drugs by the general government of the state. As part of the reporting exercise corresponding to 2005, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction's network of national focal points set up in the 27 European Union (EU) Member States, Norway, and the candidates countries...

DO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVES CROWD OUT PUBLIC EXPENDITURES IN U.S. STATES? Jia Wang Abstract: This paper sets out to investigate whether incentives spending crowds out public spending in U.S. states. Using data from an evolving national database, this paper employs a two-way fixed effect panel framework and GMM approach to account for the dynamic features associated with public expenditur...

We examined the association between states' legislative mandates that private insurance cover autism services and the health care-related financial burden reported by families of children with autism. Child and family data were drawn from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (N  =  2,082 children with autism). State policy characteristics were taken from public sources...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated how improved community mental health services for youths affect public expenditures in other sectors, including inpatient hospitalization, the juvenile justice system, the child welfare system, and the special education system. METHODS Participants were youths aged six to 17 years who received services through a mental health agency in one of a matched pair of c...

background india’s health sector witnessed some major policy changes in 1990s that aimed at making health services more accessible to the population.   methods in this paper, i tried to present some preliminary results of the significant changes that occurred between 1995/6 and 2004, especially in relation to the question of access to healthcare for the poor and rural population using data from...

skilled labor force is very important in economic growth. workers become skilled when they are healthy and able to be educated and work. in this study, we estimated the effects of health indicators on labor supply. we used labor force participation rate as the indicator of labor supply. we categorized this indicator into 2 indicators of female and male labor force participation rates and compar...

In the 1990s, Latvia aimed at introducing Social Health Insurance (SHI) but later changed to a National Health Service (NHS) type system. The NHS is financed from general taxation, provides coverage to the entire population, and pays for a basic service package purchased from independent public and private providers. In November 2013, the Cabinet of Ministers passed a draft Healthcare Financing...

Prompted in part by constrained national budgets, European governments are increasingly partnering with the private sector to underwrite the costs of constructing and operating public hospitals and other health care facilities and delivering services. Through such publicprivate partnerships, governments hope to avoid up-front capital expenditure and to harness private-sector efficiencies, while...