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Title: Health economics at the crossroads of centuries – From the past to the future
Authors: Jakovljevic, Mihajlo
Ogura S.
Issue Date: 2016
Abstract: © 2016 Jakovljevic and Ogura. Health economics, as an interdisciplinary science, has experienced exceptionally bold evolution through the past eight decades. Generations of committed scholars have built up huge body of knowledge and developed a set of methodological tools to assist health-care authorities with resource allocation process. Following its conception at the US National Bureau of Economic Research and Ivy League US Universities, this science has spread across the Globe. It has adapted to a myriad of local conditions and needs of the national health systems with diverse historical legacies, medical services provision, and financing patterns. Challenge of financial sustainability facing modern day health systems remains primarily attributable to population aging, prosperity diseases, large scale migrations, rapid urbanization, and technological innovation in medicine. Despite promising developments in developing countries with emerging BRICS markets on the lead, rising out-of-pocket health spending continues to threaten affordability of medical care. Universal health coverage extension will likely remain serious challenge even for some of the most advanced OECD nations. These complex circumstances create strong drivers for inevitable further development of health economics. We believe that this interdisciplinary health science shall leave long-lasting blue print to be visible for decades to come.
URI: https://scidar.kg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/9038
Type: article
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00115
SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-84983532370
Appears in Collections:Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kragujevac

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