The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …

We present evidence on the health impacts and mechanisms of a large expansion in non-contributory health insurance in … health services without co-pays. Our intent-to-treat estimates show that SP reduced child mortality by 7% in poor … important implications for the ongoing health insurance expansions. …

We present evidence on the health impacts and mechanisms of a large expansion in non-contributory health insurance in … health services without co-pays. Our intent-to-treat estimates show that SP reduced child mortality by 7% in poor … important implications for the ongoing health insurance expansions …

Throughout the Truman administration's Fair Deal era, ideas for a national system of publicly financed universal health … care were developed, debated, and even proposed in Congress. In spite of public support for health care reform, each … legislative proposal that embodied these ideas failed, and the dream of truly universal health coverage has never been resurrected …

policy could do more harm than good. Health Savings Accounts led by Republicans narrowly focuses on consumer incentives, and …

Law and ethics are both essential attributes of a high-functioning health care system and powerful explainers of why … the existing system is so difficult to improve. U.S. health law is not seamless; rather, it derives from multiple sources … laws promoting market competition. Complying with law is important, but health professionals also should understand that …

The present paper outlines measures of disparity in healthcare access and health outcomes, drawing from the … variables of the health system might wield more influence over health and health care disparities than the overarching features … defining our health system taxonomy. Finally, it will be analyzed how differences in healthcare use and health outcomes within …

Improving maternal and child health outcomes is a major development objective. Targets related to these outcomes were … Sustainable Development Goals (under Goal 3 health targets). Turkey is among the few successful middle-income countries that have … significantly reduced the under-5 mortality rate below the MDG 2015 target levels. This study analyses improved demand-side (health …

The health landscape in Latin America and the Caribbean is changing quickly. The region is undergoing a demographic and … epidemiological transition in which health problems are highly concentrated on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). In light of this, the … describes both alternative interventions to expand health insurance coverage and their tradeoff with labor informality and moral …

-based health insurance policies in the United States as natural experiments. I first exploit the discrete change in insurance … with statistically significant deterioration in attitudes towards the necessity of health insurance among young adults who … are affected by this policy the most. Next, I show that gaining health insurance at 65 due to the onset of Medicare does …