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 …

"This book investigates issues related to health inequality with a particular interest on developing countries. It … provides rigorous empirical work on both trends and causal factors behind health inequality, analyzes the implications of … health deprivations on poverty traps and suggests practical policies which can be implemented"-- …

This article explores the hypothesis that the U.S. health care system operates more like a robber baron than like Robin … Hood, burdening ordinary payers of health insurance premiums disproportionately for the benefit of industry interests and … higher-income consumer-taxpayers. Thus, lower- and middle-income Americans with health coverage pay not only for their own …

expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth, poverty, and income distribution in the past 20 years …

health and education government spending on income inequality in the European Union over the 2002-2015 period. In this …