The role of the government in health care provision remains a contested issue worldwide. Public hospitals dominate China's health care industry. However, in the early 2000s, the eastern China city of Suqian privatized all its hospitals and relaxed entry barriers for private hospitals. We assess...

The health sector, a foremost service sector in Nigeria, faces a number of challenges; primarily, the persistent under-funding of the health sector by the Nigerian government as evidence reveals low allocations to the health sector and poor health system performance which are reflected in key...

Understood as a benefit derived from social security, healthcare provision was historically developed in Mexico within the context of labor laws and tied to the multiple social security institutions (SSIs) created throughout the first half of the twentieth century. However, the combination of an...