Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the distribution of health … care resources. We take as a working definition of health for our purposes the number of quality adjusted life years that a … synonymous with reducing inequalities in health, we also consider the much richer variety of concepts employed by philosophers …

This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …

This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …

The effect of government spending on population’s health has received attention over the past decades. This study re …-examines the link between government health expenditures and health outcomes to establish whether government intervention in the … health sector improves outcomes. The study uses annual data for the period 1980–2014 on Ghana. The ordinary least squares …

This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …

We study the steady upward trend of Health Care Expenditures (HCE) over GDP for a sample of OECD countries between 1970 … ratio of HCE over GDP in the US. This suggests that differences in the relative price of health care – rather than …

“Health, as we all know, is by far the biggest part of the budget. And for years it has also been the fastest growing … of health spending. That is no small feat….” 2012 Nova Scotia Budget Speech (Nova Scotia, p. 11).Nova Scotians carry a … recommend that Nova Scotia prefund selected healthcare services and benchmark against other provinces to get better health bang …

“We know there is nothing more important to Manitoba families than the health of their loved ones. That's why health …