sustainability of pay-as-you-go to finance the welfare system in developed countries. Thsi paper constitutes Chapert 2. Chapter 1 …

The same methodology Oecd and Ecofin apply to project future trends of health care expenditue is here applied to … reconstruct backwards Italian health care expenditure. The time horizon is 1988-2012. Results are described and argued. Important …

Ecofin and Oecd methodology is used to reconstruct the historical evolution of public current health care expenditure … health care needs or health care supply (simulations deal with essential levels of assistance that should be equally provided …

The paper addresses the issue of dynamic relationships between environment, health and growth. Its aim is to show that … variables . The hypothesis is that the state of the “natural†environment at first affects negatively health; later on its … improvement, due to sanitation and health infrastructures, possible because of income growth, leads to a better health, followed …

The paper first develops Region-based mid-long term projections of public health care expenditure for Italy; then …

the welfare system in developed countries. Other chapters follow. …