Background Comprehensive and comparable estimates of health spending in each country
are a key input for health policy and planning, and are necessary to support the …

Background Replacing single-use products with reusable ones may reduce the
environmental impact of healthcare. This study aimed to broadly assess the environmental …

Background Comparable estimates of health spending are crucial for the assessment of
health systems and to optimally deploy health resources. The methods used to track health …

Background The absolute number of older individuals needing medical care and long-term
care (LTC) is increasing globally due to the growing ageing population. However, it is …

A large body of literature investigates whether increasing the number of women in legislative
office translates into policies that benefit women in society. This research builds upon …

Background The private health insurance (PHI) market in Republic of Korea has instituted
indemnity insurance plans that provide partial reimbursements for some medical services or …

Background: Many patients on maintenance dialysis experience financial hardship. Existing
studies are mainly cost analyses that quantify financial hardship in monetary terms, but an …

Although cost-effectiveness analysis has a long tradition of supporting healthcare decision-
making in Sweden, there are no clear criteria for when an intervention is considered too …

Primary healthcare (PHC) is considered as the pathway to Universal Health Coverage
(UHC) and to achieving sustainable development goals. Measuring PHC expenditure is a …

Health financing fragmentation poses a challenge to reforms intended to address system-
wide objectives vis-à-vis universal health coverage (UHC). India's experience with publicly …