Recent health care centralization trends raise the important question of the extent to which the quality of emergency … medical services may offset effects from decreased access to emergency health care. This article analyzes whether residential … encountered empirical difficulties relating to potential endogenous health-based spatial sorting of involved agents and data …

-funded health care systems. Strict targets, which have specified maximum waiting times, have been introduced in the NHS over the … distribution and avoids restrictive assumptions about error distribution and functional form. We find that health providers …

This paper employs an econometric model to parse dierences in health care utilization attributable to private health … such as insurance preference or attitude toward health risks. The model has two components, one component to model …. Recognizing the endogeneity of health insurance, the model allows for correlated unobserved heterogeneity by assuming a latent …

This paper proposes a new approach to the measurement of inequality and inequity in the delivery of health care based …

the nearest hospital for orthopaedics and neurosurgery. During our sample period, health insurers did not steer patients …

While a growing literature examining the relationship between income and health expenditures suggests that health care …

This paper proposes a new approach to the measurement of inequality and inequity in the delivery of health care based …

In many health care systems primary care physicians act as 'gatekeepers' to secondary care. We investigates the impact …

. It proposes a normative framework to model the influence of educational policy on health outcomes, grounded in Roemerââ … different types of secondary school. We use this reform in two ways: first, to evaluate the health outcomes of different … educational policies under different normative principles; second, to simulate counterfactual distributions of health outcomes by …

The public health literature focusing on the detrimental effects of social isolation has shown that the quantity of … social connections is positively correlated with individual health. Drawing on pooled cross-sectional data, we test this … best predictor of health. We point out the existence of health disparities based on socio-economic status. Poorer and less …