The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery. The focus is, for the most … discussion of the concept and definition of equity. The empirical sections cover the literature on equity in health care … financing (progressivity and horizontal equity of health care financing arrangements), equity in health care delivery …

-Ländern; (II) Politische Institutionen und Gesundheitsausgaben; (III) Das gemeinsame Interesse von Gesundheit und Wirtschaft …

recent data available from individual-level national health surveys and health interviews, this paper paints a picture of the … reporting to reach the World Health Organization target in all countries, and excess sedentarism is high in two of the seven … countries studied. Disparities by level of education and socio-economic status are visible for all health behaviours: overall …

they market when they face consumers who care about the healthy/unhealthy attributes of the product but incur in emotional/health … that produces the unhealthy food charges a higher price and obtains a larger share of the market unless the emotional/health …

A project aimed at presenting initial results from the implementation of the System of Health Accounts has been carried … by the Health Policy Unit at the OECD and experts from thirteen member countries. The results are presented in the form … of a comparative study (OECD Health Working Papers No. 16) and a set of OECD Health Technical Papers presenting …

France’s health-care system offers high-quality care. Average health outcomes are good, public satisfaction with the … health-care system is high, and average household out-of-pocket expenditures are low. As in other OECD countries, technology … by care providers, tackle the high spending on pharmaceuticals, strengthen the role of health insurers as purchasing …