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 …

declined by up to 20 percent. As this study based on administrative diagnosis data of all statutory health insurance companies …’s health in day care centers and schools in the future, as good health is an important prerequisite for the ability to learn … effectively. In addition, more attention should be paid to the current developments in child health, as it seems likely that …

resources; ensure nutritional safety, increasing maternal schooling and helpful for improving child health. …

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 …

Understanding socioeconomic inequalities in health care is critical for achieving health equity. The aim of this paper … is threefold: 1) to quantify inequality in diabetes health care service utilization; 2) to understand determinants of … contributing factors was applied. Differences in diabetes patients’ health care utilization patterns suggest that use of services …