Policymakers in countries around the world are faced with rising health care costs and are debating ways to reform health care to reduce expenditures. Estimates of price elasticity of expenditure are a key component for ...

In the last decade there has been an increase in Ecuador’s GDP observed, despite the economic slowdown in 2015 and 2016. Likewise, there has been an increase in spending on health, especially in the public sector, supported ...

A Process Manual. It shows the flow of activities, sub processes and processes that make up the Macroprocess 11 Financial Management

To analyze the effects of taxing sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in Ecuador, this study estimates a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System model using data from the 2011-2012 National Survey of Income and Expenditure for ...

Dementia is a major cause of dependency and disability among older persons, and imposes huge economic burdens. Only a few cost-of-illness studies for dementia have been carried out in middle and low-income countries. ...

The present research was carried out at the La Lola experiment station of the Inter-American Institute of Agriucltural Sciences of the OAS, located on the Atlantic coast of Costa Rica. The main concern of the study was the ...

Background/Objectives: We applied three dietary assessment methods and aimed at obtaining a set of physical, social and psychological variables that can discriminate those individuals who did not underreport (`never ...