Health Care Financing and Affordability in the Emerging Global Markets

• Main Author: Kyriakos Souliotis (auth)
• Other Authors: Mihajlo (Michael) Jakovljevic (auth), Wim Groot (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Medicine; Health Economics; BRICS; Hospitals; cost; Europe; Emerging markets; medical care; Affordability; Health financing; Inequality
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

During the recent few decades, global economic growth has been driven largely by developing world economies. The ones with the most intensive pace of development were marked as "emerging" markets led by so called BRICS and N-11 countries. Such changes inevitably reflected the global health...