We address the efficiency of expenditure in education and health sectors for a sample of OECD countries by applying two alternative non-parametric methodologies: FDH and DEA. Those are two areas where public expenditure is of great importance so that findings have strong implications in what...

The aim of the paper is to present new evidence on the relationship between income and health care expenditure allowing for (i) substitution and complementary relationships between private and public health care expenditure, (ii) presence of structural breaks in the dependent variables, and...

This paper specifies a model of the determinants of total expenditure on health care. The model shows how this expenditure is divided between the public and private sectors when public expenditures are chosen by majority rule. From the theoretical model I derive two equations determining the...

We use a sample of OECD countries in order to better understand why the US health care expenditure as a percentage of its Gross Domestic Product ("health care effort") is so far above any other. To this end we employ a descriptive cross-country methodology based partially on econometric...

We develop an agent-based computational model for the spatial spread of an epi- demic to explore how the inter-regional variability in vaccine coverage a§ects the global epidemic size as well as the individual risk of infection. Our agent-based model imple- ments a standard SIR model of...

Policies to promote employee health and well-being not only protect from occupational risks, but also provide benefits for individuals and employers. Unhealthy lifestyles, characterised by high levels of stress, sedentary behaviour and poor eating habits, affect the health of employees and...

Good mental health is a vital part of people's well-being. This report uses the OECD Well-being Framework to systematically review how people's economic, social, relational, civic and environmental experiences shape and are, in turn, shaped by their mental health. Based on this evidence,...

Protecting healthcare workers and patients is critical to reduce the spread of the disease. In this brief we highlight three urgent actions : Distribution of infection prevention and control (IPC) policies and guidelines to all health facilities; Manufacturing and distribution of IPC supplies to...