Physician spending is one of the fastest growing Canadian public sector health categories of recent years but despite … health expenditure. Regression models of the determinants of provincial government health spending are estimated and show … physician numbers are a positive and significant driver of provincial government health care spending after controlling for …

We argue that policy analysis aiming at curving inequalities in health calls for a better understanding of what we know … about its measurement pathways. Assuming that health is a good that individuals trade off against other goods, unavoidable … health inequalities result when after controlling for unavoidable factors (e.g., age and gender), differences in …