Due to universal health care coverage, it is hypothesized that Canada will have less of a rural/urban disparity in … health outcomes compared to the United States. It is also hypothesized that Canada’s decentralized, executive federalism … offers more opportunity for public action to address rural health if the political will is present. The evidence reveals that …

As health care costs rise, so too does the importance of assessing their incidence, and factoring these costs into … also for households’ health expenditures. Standard measures of the effect of government policy on the distribution of …-government income by treating households’ health care costs similarly across countries. The results show the degree of bias in common …

This note examines whether subjective general health in Europe has changed since the onset of the economic crisis …. Subjective general health for Ireland, Spain and Portugal is compared before and after the onset of the recession. Two other … or very good health is also plotted against the change in the unemployment rate over the period 2007-2012. Subjective …