The study investigates the effect of wealth on maternal health care utilization in Ghana via its effect on Antenatal … care use. Antenatal care serves as the initial point of contact of expectant mothers to maternal health care providers … before delivery. The study is pivoted on the introduction of the free maternal health care policy in April 2005 in Ghana with …

Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and non … form of a reduced variability of health status. Using the standard deviation of life expectancy in 24 OECD countries … between 1960 and 2005, a 10 percent increase of health care expenditure is associated with a decrease of an estimated 0 …

How business cycles affect income-related distribution of diseases and health disorders is largely unknown. We examine … how the prevalence of thirty diseases and health conditions is distributed across the income spectrum using survey data … to analyze how income-related health inequality changed across time periods that can be described as a boom, crisis and …

over monetary outcomes. The goal of our experiment is to test whether these violations also affect the evaluation of health … choice behaviour, we can conclude that previously reported violations do not seem to bias health utility measurement. …

of the municipality National Health Insurance and the Japanese Health Insurance Association in Fukuoka Prefecture. We …

Background: Concerns about rising health care costs require rigorous economic study to inform clinical and policy … methodological and reporting quality through economic evaluation guidelines (Evers, Drummond, Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation … Reporting Standards (CHEERS), Fukuda and Imanaka checklists). Following the Panel on Cost Effectiveness in Health and Medicine …

This paper investigates the difference in the health conditions and the health care consumption of uninsured … worse health conditions. However, if we compare individuals within the same diagnosis category, the uninsured are actually … healthier, with a lower number of chronic conditions and a lower risk of mortality. This indicates that the uninsured are …

Background Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to provide quality healthcare services and safeguard the population … from the fnancial burden of catastrophic health expenditure. Its primary objectives are to improve longevity and enhance …) and explores whether public health programs can reduce social inequality. By employing SWB inequality as a measure, we go …

Background: The Brazilian public health system is one of the largest health systems in the world, with a mandate to …

Demographic and Health Survey of 2008 - 2009 together with additional administrative data. Both a single-level model and a multi … on birth weight. The results imply that infant health can be improved by using prenatal care adequately. The study calls … availability of skilled health care providers such as doctors and nurses at prenatal care clinics, reducing the average distances …