assess how the UK health care system performed against the norm of horizontal equity in health care access during the first … wave of COVID-19 wave. Unmet need was most evident for hospital care, and less pronounced for primary health services …

In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy … public health or medicine. To investigate the effects of officials' professionalism on their response to and performance in …-related policy measures, and health outcomes. We show that, on average, cities whose top officials had public health or …

improvement selfreported measures of native workers' health. These findings, together with the evidence that immigrants report … lower injury rates than natives, suggest that the reallocation of tasks could reduce overall health care costs and the human …

Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. This study used coarsened … exact matching to test the hypothesis of supplier-induced demand (SID) by comparing health care utilization and expenditures … affiliated with healthcare professionals. Our study also suggests that as the public becomes more informed, the demand of health …

history of disability or major chronic health condition at baseline. A latent variable structural equation model is used to … analyse the predictive role of latent baseline biological health, indicated by a rich set of biomarkers, and other personal … characteristics, in determining the individual’s disability state and health service utilisation five years later. We find that …

be associated with developing dementia in people 60-years-old and greater. Participants in the Health and Retirement …) of dementia, adjusting for participants' demographic, health, and socioeconomic factors. Experiencing low healthcare …