The World Health Report 2000 proposed three fundamental goals for health systems encompassing population health, health care finance and health systems responsiveness. The goals incorporate both an efficiency and equity dimension. While inequalities in population health and health care finance...

This paper compares the use of parametric and non-parametric approaches to adjust for heterogeneity in self-reported data. Despite the growing popularity of the HOPIT model to account for reporting heterogeneity when dealing with self-reported categorical data, recent evidence has questioned the...