Health Spending in Japan : Macro-Fiscal Implications and Reform Options /

Health spending has risen rapidly in Japan. We find two-thirds of the spending increase over 1990-2011 resulted from ageing, and the rest from excess cost growth. The spending level will rise further: ageing alone will raise it by 3 1\2 percentage points of GDP over 2010-30, and excess cost growth a...

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Egile nagusia: Nozaki, Masahiro
Beste egile batzuk: Kashiwase, Kenichiro, Saito, Ikuo
Formatua: Aldizkaria
Hizkuntza:English
Argitaratua: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Saila:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/142
Sarrera elektronikoa:Full text available on IMF