The growing economic pressures on healthcare systems have heightened the need for effective and sustainable cost management strategies. This study presents a PRISMAbased systematic review of 210 peer-reviewed articles published between 1974 and 2024, retrieved from the Scopus andWeb of Science...

This assessment focuses solely on government expenditures on sustainable long-term care (LTC) for the elderly, as requested by the The Government of North Macedonia (GoNM). It does not attempt to calculate the costs of the provision of uncompensated informal care by family and friends, nor does...

This study revisits the long-standing debate on the guns-versus-butter phenomenon, that spending on military activity crowds out non-military expenditure. By focusing on Africa, we conjecture the crowding-out effect of military expenditure on health expenditure beyond government health...

Failure to account for the full complexity and costs of high-need populations in the risk-adjusted capitated payment model for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans may create financial disincentives for plans to invest in comprehensive care for affected beneficiaries, potentially exacerbating health...

Medical spending is highly concentrated at the end of life and varies widely across patients, raising a first-order welfare question about whether marginal end-of-life spending reflects waste or generates meaningful benefits. Using Austrian administrative data, we document that endof-life...

Purpose - The main goal of this paper is to analyze the implementation of pharmaceuticals cost-containment measures in Egypt. Design/methodology/approach - This paper adopts descriptive and analytical techniques to assess the extent of implementing pharmaceutical cost-containment measures in...

Failure to account for the full complexity and costs of high-need populations in the risk-adjusted capitated payment model for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans may create financial disincentives for plans to invest in comprehensive care for affected beneficiaries, potentially exacerbating health...

Bangladesh is grappling with the challenge of balancing public health with pollution reduction. The current research seeks to analyze the relationships between ecological indicators and health expenditure and to provide policy suggestions to enhance environmental conditions and minimize...

We study how health insurance deductibles affect healthcare spending and health using a regression discontinuity design and administrative data from the Netherlands. Exploiting an annual deductible reset, we compare patients admitted to the emergency room just before and after January 1....