Alzheimer's disease represents a significant burden in terms of time for the carer of the patient not institutionalized. The aim of this article is to estimate the cost of the time of the informal care depending on the type of disability and study the underlying factors of its variability. The...

This paper analyzes the effect of public health spending on productivity and its influence on the individual health-status. From a descriptive approximation the results suggest that health resources are positively associated with the population health-status measured by subjective indicators. We...

El análisis de las desigualdades en salud plantea dificultades conceptuales a la hora de traducirse en políticas de equidad en la asignación de los recursos sanitarios. En este trabajo se analiza la evidencia empírica que estudia los determinantes de la salud de las poblaciones —y en...