This article documents the instability and variation in public financing of public health functions at the federal and state levels. Trust for America's Health has charted federal funding for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, which in turn provides a major portion of financing for state and local public health departments, and has compiled information about state-generated revenue ...

This article examines the various kinds of health care financing models found in selected developed countries. A discussion of health care delivery models is followed by an overview of the national health delivery systems found in European, South America, Asian, and North American. A discussion on health reform focuses on the shift in financial resources from private to public sources in the ec...

BACKGROUND Stroke services are a form of integrated care which have been introduced in many countries, including the Netherlands, to improve health outcomes and processes of care by connecting the acute, rehabilitative, and chronic phases of stroke care. Limited research exists on the effects of payment systems on the functioning of integrated care services from the perspectives of those involv...

Abstract During the past decades several attempts have been made to reform Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The article analyses possible new directions of CAP implementation and financing CAP. It discusses whether renationalisation co-financing would be a beneficial approach make policy more efficient help restructuring not just expenditure but whole EU budget. author changes in light regulat...

Health Division, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, France (M Cecchini MD, F Sassi PhD); Health Systems Financing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (J A Lauer PhD, D Chisholm PhD); Centre for Burden of Disease and Cost-eff ectiveness, University of Queensland School of Population Health, Brisbane, QLD, Australia (Y Y Lee BHSci); and Economic Anal...

The paper investigates the effects of macroeconomic conditions on firms’ capital structure. We introduce a repeated lender-borrower interaction that allows for debt and equity financing to co-exist as optimal securities in every period. The presence of asymmetric information in the market for loans is responsible for endogenous fluctuations to take place.It is possible to state sufficient condi...

Background and Aim: The health system financing is the process of collecting, pooling and managing financial resources and purchasing healthcare services. Health financing plays an important role in achieving the health system goals and objectives specially universal health coverage. The aim of this study was to strategically analyze the Iranian health financing system and recommend strategies ...