The yeur 196%’ YUW a sizable shift in outlays fo? health and medic& cwre from private sowrce.y of funds to public sowces. Th& tland & attributuble in large measure to the implementation of the program of health irwurunce fo?* the aged (Medicare) heginning July 1, 1965, to the new medbul assistance yrogtam (Medic&d), and to the eayarwion of other public progrcrma. This unnu& urtbcb presents the ...

The Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988 established that health is “a duty of the State” and “a right of the citizen”. According to the law, every citizen is entitled to use the Brazilian Unified National Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde – SUS), in line with their social needs, regardless of their ability to pay, occupational status or health conditions. To ensure universal care, the St...

This study examines the extent to which increased public mental health expenditures lead to a reduction in jail populations and computes the associated intersystem return on investment (ROI). We analyze unique panel data on 44 U.S. states and D.C. for years 2001-2009. To isolate the intersystem spillover effect, we exploit variations across states and over time within states in per capita publi...

This paper analyzes the impact of population aging on health care expenditures in Korea. Examination of the age-expenditure profile reveals that health care resources are allocated more for the older cohort of population over time, suggesting significant growth of health care expenditures due to population aging. We contend, however, that population aging is considered as a parameter rather tha...

Health care expenditures in the United States were 10.5 percent of the gross national product in 1982, and growing rapidly. The magnitude and continuing growth make health care costs an important issue in public policy. Knowledge of costs for specific diseases is necessary for ascertaining the effectiveness and efficiency of various health programs. In this article, medical care expenditures fo...

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...

This article presents data on health care spending for 30 OECD countries from OECD Health Data 2003, the latest edition of OECD's annual data collection on health systems across industrialized countries. OECD data show health care expenditures as a proportion of gross domestic product at an all-time high, due to both increased expenditures and overall economic slow-down. The article discusses s...

Using household-level data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we estimate the extent to which medical expenses are responsible for driving households to bankruptcy. Our results suggest that an increase of 10 percent in medical debts would cause a 27 percent increase in the filing propensity of households with primarily medical debt, and an approximately 36 percent increase in filing prope...