Health Disasters and as presented in an informal session to brief Executive Directors on January 28, 2015. The paper …

years in the pages of F&D looks at the important links between health and economic progress. Articles range over a variety … of topics, from the Millennium Development Goals and their health-related targets for 2015 to the economics of tobacco … property aspects of health care …

government spending on health care and education, and social indicators. Unlike previous studies, where social indicators are … used as proxies for the unobservable health and education status of the population, this paper estimates a latent variable …

This Selected Issues paper on the Slovak Republic reviews efficiency and reform of the health sector. The immediate … challenge for the health care system in the Slovak Republic is to improve health sector outcomes while containing public health … spending. The Slovak health care system is decentralized, and the central government has limited control over decisions by …

This paper provides an analysis of the developments in public health spending over the past 40 years, as well as … projections of public health spending for 50 advanced and emerging countries over 2011-50. The paper also quantifies the effects … of specific health reforms on the growth of public health spending in advanced economies by drawing on a range of …

This supplement provides country case studies on public health care expenditures and reform experiences in eight … success in containing public health spending during the past 30 years. For the emerging economies, the case studies take a …