Maintaining high standards of care from doctors, nurses and other health professionals is of critical importance for an … effective and efficient health system. Yet deficient levels of health worker performance, including low effort, absenteeism, and …, various pay-for-performance interventions that reward providers based on measures of quality of care and health outcomes have …

The present paper outlines measures of disparity in healthcare access and health outcomes, drawing from the … variables of the health system might wield more influence over health and health care disparities than the overarching features … defining our health system taxonomy. Finally, it will be analyzed how differences in healthcare use and health outcomes within …

Individuals should be entitled to a "fair innings", and the primary role of health systems should be the prevention of …-à-vis the former level. Nevertheless, primary health systems continue to focus almost exclusively on child mortality. They need … to make a health system transition and get engaged in the prevention of risk factors, morbidity and mortality related to …

Telemedicine can expand access to health care at relatively low cost. Historically, however, demand for telemedicine …

In this paper, we test whether promoting digital government tools increases the take-up of an important public health …

We examine the efficiency gains in health systems generated after the national roll out of basic healthcare in El … demonstrate that the expansion of community health teams, comprising less-specialized health workers, increases preventive care …-specialized health workers improves efficiency, maintaining quality of care. …

Health constitutes a fundamental aspect of our well-being. It is also a key factor in determining our contribution to … market and non-market output. Health inequality refers to the unequal realization of health outcomes between different groups … in the population. Systematic disparities in health outcomes and in access to health resources not only undermine basic …