measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary valuation of change in population health and disease burden. Application … influence disease prioritisation. It increases the value of health improvements relative to GDP. …We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both agespecific health and lifespan …

The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery. The focus is, for the most … discussion of the concept and definition of equity. The empirical sections cover the literature on equity in health care … financing (progressivity and horizontal equity of health care financing arrangements), equity in health care delivery …

, and health measures) to examine the consistency of the relationship. We find that the relationship is both scale …