This study wants to draw a broad picture of the employment context for nurses in the province of Quebec and to compare it with other provinces. We found that Quebec nurses work less than nurses in the rest of Canada, in terms of effective hours worked, of contracted hours and in terms of...

Cet article étudie les coûts des hôpitaux publics français dans la perspective d'une réforme de la tarification. Des données à trois dimensions hôpital-séjour-année permettent d'identifier l'hétérogénéité non observée des hôpitaux et la composante de la variabilité du coût...

Morocco’s healthcare expenditures regime growth has been in decline since 2010. The average annual growth rate went from 7.9% over the period of 1996 to 2009 to 4.4% in the recent years. The objective of this paper is to identify the demographic and macroeconomic determinants that shape...

A review of health budgets reflects a budget shortfall in Togo. Togolese health facilities are characterized by a lack of qualified staff, obsolete technical equipment and outdated health infrastructure. The rate of hospital attendance which was 60% in 1990, declined to 31% in 2010. Barely half...

Le système de santé français offre des soins de haute qualité. Les résultats moyens sur le plan de la santé sont bons, le public est très satisfait du système de santé et les restes à charge sont en moyenne faibles. Comme dans d’autres pays de l’OCDE, le progrès technologique...

This paper first presents a time-series analysis of factors influencing aggregate health care expenditure in some OECD countries. We focus on supply-side factors (especially the diffusion of medical technologies) and first estimate a single model on six countries. The results suggest that...

ABSTRACT & RÉSUMÉ & ZUSAMMENFASSUNG : Throughout history, nothing has killed more human beings than infectious diseases. Although, death rates from pandemics dropped globally by about 0.8 % per year, all the way through the 20th century, the number of new infectious diseases like Sars, HIV and...

A review of health budgets reflects a budget shortfall in Togo. Togolese health facilities are characterized by a lack of qualified staff, obsolete technical equipment and outdated health infrastructure. The rate of hospital attendance which was 60% in 1990, declined to 31% in 2010. Barely half...

Ce papier présente une nouvelle série de projections des dépenses publiques de santé et de soins de longue durée jusqu’en 2060, faisant suite à une première série de projections publiées en 2006. Le papier étudie la santé et les soins de longue durée séparément ainsi que les...