The U.S. is the only developed country without some form of national health insurance. Yet, public opinion polls have consistently reported solid majorities in favor of such a system. In this paper, we examine whether attitudes toward different roles of government and beliefs that may be related...

Este artículo aborda la economía de la salud como una ciencia del comportamiento y como insumo para la política y la investigación en servicios de salud. Ilustra este papel dual con datos sobre publicaciones y citas de dos importantes revistas de economía de la salud y de tres reconocidos...

Sex differences in mortality (SDIM) vary over time and place as a function of social, health, and medical circumstances. The magnitude of these variations, and their response to large socioeconomic changes, suggest that biological differences cannot fully account for sex differences in survival....