We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage …

We estimate the health costs of supply-side barriers to accessing medical care. The setting is Colombia, where citizens … have a constitutional right to health care, but insurance companies that manage delivery impose restrictions on access. We … use administrative data on judicial claims for health as a proxy for unmet demand. We validate this using the register …

We investigate universalization of access to health in Brazil. We find large reductions in maternal, foetal, neonatal … driving mechanisms. We find sharp increases in coverage of primary health facilities with GPs and outreach workers and, in … line with this, increases in outpatient procedures, prenatal care visits, health-education activities and home visits by …

may be modified to deliver large improvements in health. To support a justice argument for such modification, we show how … the current global economic order may contribute to perpetuating poverty and poor health in less-developed countries. To … health raises the future quality of life and, in addition, has multiplier effects, stimulating human capital investment and …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends …. -- poverty ; income ; inequality ; infant mortality ; India ; economic reform ; state health expenditure ; panel data …