Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing … health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To … modes. Overall, it can be concluded that the health care reforms have not reduced equity in health care financing neither if …

Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the distribution of health … person may expect to enjoy over his or her lifetime. Although we mostly follow the economists' custom of regarding equity as …

There are many existing methodologies on measuring health equity, while seldom has method aiming at health resource … allocation. We collected 6 method of measuring equity in health resource allocation. This paper presents key contents of methods … on measuring horizontal equity in health service allocation, yet each method has its advantages and disadvantages as well …