implications arising from this trust. We explore whether populations reporting low levels of confidence in the health care system … find that societies with low levels of health care confidence initially exhibit a faster response with respect to staying … response from societies with high health care confidence. On the other hand, regions with higher confidence in the health care …

the state. Since then, Brazil has adopted a policy regime that combines both neoliberal policies - associated with those … outcomes, such as life expectancy and infant mortality, have improved significantly. What steps did Brazil take to achieve … agent in inducing development in Brazil opens a window of opportunity to create a virtuous complementarity between health …

hospital patients (65 years and older) in Brazil and Mexico. We develop a continuum-of-care conceptual framework based on prior … the inappropriate days can be attributed to hospital inefficiency (36% in Brazil and 49% in Mexico), an important share is … days in Brazil and 7% in Mexico. In a back-of-the-envelope calculation, we estimate that providing six weeks of long …

Healthcare in Russia has gone through many transformative stages, from a Soviet-era model of public provision to an … now a mix of both public and private healthcare provision operates across Russia. Throughout all these periods …, with some major constraints to universal provision in Russia. Underfinancing presents a persistent obstacle to universal …

In less than a decade, China transformed its inadequate, unjust health care system in order to provide basic universal … health coverage (UHC) for its people. What forces made it possible for China to achieve this? What kind of transformation … took place? What are the impacts of these policy changes? What can we learn from China? Moreover, while China has achieved …