Public insurers face trade-offs between the individual and collective benefits they can provide given limited resources. Drug expenditure is one of the largest components of health spending and it is not clear cut what should be readily available. We study litigation as a safety valve using data...

This paper aims to study the effect of distance to abortion facilities on the birth rate, abortion ratio and pregnancy rate in the United States. It will further extend the effect of the change in birth statistics on child living conditions, measured by adjusted family income and the percentage...

Even before the COVID-19 crisis, rapidly growing healthcare expenditure was calling the sustainabi- lity of public finances into question. The pandemic has reinforced these concerns and also under- lined the importance of resilient healthcare systems. To highlight the need for economic policy...

This study adopts a quasi-experimental approach to empirically identify the discretion exercised by municipalities in conducting eligibility assessments for Japan’s Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) program. It leverages the municipal merger phenomenon in the first half of the 2000s as a...

This study identifies and analyzes the key environmental factors contributing to the loss of healthy years of life, as quantified by Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), across various regions worldwide. Using data from The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) we...

Non-Government Organization (NGO) in Nepal have long history of supporting the people-in-need. COVID pandemic posed a significant threat to human societies, causing a negative impact on all levels, i.e. health, education, food security, etc. The article explored the scenario of NGOs during and...

This study investigates the impact of increased carbon emissions on per capita health expenditure exploiting the panel data with Engle – Granger based cointegration test, Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square (FMOLS) and Dynamic Ordinary Least Square (DOLS) method. Data for the South Asian...

The following article analyses the relationship between the mental health index and the variables of the Environment, Social and Governance-ESG model in the Italian regions between 2004 and 2023. The econometric analysis is aimed at investigating in detail the relationships between the mental...

The following article analyses the relationship between the mental health index and the variables of the Environment, Social and Governance-ESG model in the Italian regions between 2004 and 2023. First of all, a static analysis is proposed aimed at identifying trends relating to mental health in...

India has achieved significant improvement in indicators such as Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR), Institutional Deliveries, Skilled Attendance at birth, Ante-Natal and Post-Natal care since its independence. However, several challenges constrain maternal and reproductive health in India. Of them,...