Health Spending Per Capita This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. The COVID-19 pandemic erased nearly two decades of life expectancy gains in America. Meanwhile, U...
This was nonetheless far below the health spending per capita in the United States. Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria were the next highest spending countries in Europe. Most northern and western European countries spent between EUR PPP 2 500 and 3 500 per person, that is, between 10% and ...
Thereport– issued jointly by the Commission and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development – found that from an annual average growth rate of 4.6% between 2000 and 2009, health spending per capita in Europe fell 0.6% in 2010, the first time it has dropped since 1975. The rep...
Namely, from an annual average growth rate of 4.6% per year between 2000 and 2009, towards a fall in health spending per capita of 0.6% in 2010 [2]. As a result of the downturn in health spending in 2010, the percentage of GDP devoted to health stabilised or declined slightly in many...
More Spending Generally Means More Years The latest available data from the World Bank includes both the healthcare spending per capita of 178 different countries and their average life expectancy. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the analysis found that countries that spent more on healthcare tended to have ...
(SHA 2011). The Health SHA 2011 tracks all health spending in a given country over a defined period of time regardless of the entity or institution that financed and managed that spending. It generates consistent and comprehensive data on health spending in a country, which in turn can ...
to reconsider the level of public spending in the health sector. Starting from the Romanian experience, the paper aims to highlight the linkage between the performance of the health system and the total health spending for selected countries from Central and Eastern Europe. ...
Health spending per capita has decreased on average by 0.6% per year since 2009, adjusted for inflation. The countries that reduced health spending made cuts mainly to fees paid to health providers, pharmaceutical spending and health workforce and salaries. However, regarding the health workforce in...
Although spending has increased across HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria since 2015, spending has not increased in all countries, and outcomes in terms of prevalence, incidence, and per-capita spending have been mixed. The proportion of health spending from pooled sources is expected to increase...
Taking these factors into account, is post-communist health spending unusual? For the OECD economies, we find that per capita health spending is strongly related to per capita income, with an elasticity of about 1.5. The elasticity for developing economies is close to one. Spending is also ...