Although measures of sensitivity to inequality are important in judging the welfare effects of health-care programmes …, it is far from straightforward how to elicit them and apply them in health-care decision making. This paper provides an … overview of the literature on the measurement of inequality aversion, examines some of the features specific of the health …

Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of … individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health … on protective health behaviours and a number of decisions around access to health care, using data from the Survey of …

Although measures of sensitivity to inequality are important in judging the welfare effects of health-care programmes …, it is far from straightforward how to elicit them and apply them in health-care decision making. This paper provides an … overview of the literature on the measurement of inequality aversion, examines some of the features specific of the health …

, structured understanding of how the design of a country's health institutions influence its healthcare activities and outcomes … country's political institutions to determine the organisation of the health system. The book discusses a number of … institutional influences of a health system, such as federalism, the nature of collective action, electoral competition …

'political economy of health and health care'. Increasingly, scholars of different disciplines such as economics, politics …, sociology, health sciences among others, have produced a wealth of knowledge on how political institutions and processes … influence the dynamics and performance of health systems. Most of these contributions, however, tend to be scattered, and often …

"This groundbreaking Handbook brings together the two timely subject matters of political economy of health and health … approach and a better understanding of health policy making. Highlighting the key theoretical and empirical debates in academia …-making. Split into six thematic parts, the expert contributors discuss the design of health care systems, political markets …

The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are … examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets ́curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test … the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape pattern between both economic and health development and income inequalities …