health capital index. …

of immunization coverage in India using the recent National Family Health Survey data. Measurement of socioeconomic … inequalities in health and health care, and understanding the determinants of such inequalities in terms of their contributions …, are critical for health intervention strategies and for achieving equity in health care. A decomposition approach is …

Canada spends more than Italy on health per capita and as a share of GDP and has a higher per capita GDP. Yet, life … expectancy and infant mortality in Italy are better and have improved more over time. The implication is that the Italian health … care system provides better value for money. We examine whether Italy does get better health outcomes at lower costs. Using …

, most of these studies focused on economic growth with very little attention paid to health outcomes. Moreover, among the … studies that took account of health outcomes, none of them investigated the effect of FDI on child health outcomes across a … the highest rate of child mortality in the world. This study, therefore, investigates the effect of FDI on child health …

the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement that reflects a BMI screening program for public school children in the state …

This study assesses the impact of children’s health insurance programs on health care utilization and health care … 2006 to 2012. We find a positive effect of both student and free health insurance programs on the number of health care … visits. This positive impact tends to increase over time, and the impact of the free health insurance program is larger than …

This paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model designed to examine the macroeconomic effects and welfare … implications of alternative reforms to the US health insurance system. Specifically, it scrutinizes the extent to which health care … reform can mitigate inefficiencies stemming from market imperfections in the health insurance industry. The model considers a …