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 …

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 …