, are growing, and are related to several economic, social and health sector variables. Global efforts to deal with this …

Background: A world divided by health inequalities poses ethical challenges for global health. International and … national responses to health disparities must be rooted in ethical values about health and its distribution; this is because … health justice. Aim: To study why global health inequalities are morally troubling, why efforts to reduce them are morally …

This paper adopts a reduced form demand approach to analyse the key determinants influencing the health status of … results. After controlling for endogeneity we find that increased wealth is strongly associated with increased health status …, raising questions regarding the reliability of such data and promoting a multiplicity based approach to representing health …

to obviate such maladies, the idea of Kamadhenu Ati Nirdhan Chikitsa Sahayata Society (KANCSS), a source of Health Care … been used to finance the health care needs of multitude of indigents and to support part of operational expenses of KANCSS … the Society. KANCSS has disbursed total health care finance of more than Rs. 5 crores (50 million rupees) and follows …

expenditures, hospitalizations, and health plan choice. Employing a difference-in-difference framework, we find that patients who … shift their utilization more strongly towards other providers. Our results have potential implications for health policy in …

The extent of premature death and ill health in the developing world is staggering. Death and ill health on such a … concerns that led the international community to put health firmly at the center of the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs) when … health globally, especially in developing countries calls for committed and renewed focus on what works on-the-ground without …

the total healthcare expenditure while increasing efficiency and prevent problems inherent to health insurance, e.g. moral …

This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike … individual-level and state-level factors that may contribute to the geographic variation in health care utilization. The raw data …-level differences vanish once we control for individual-level socio-economic characteristics, the respondents¿ health status, their …

This paper uses Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects in Germany. We combine rich …-level health dependencies. As dependent variable we use the generic, continuous, and quasi-objective SF12 health measure. We find … to 0.35 standard deviations in health. Even 20 years after German reunification, we detect a clear spatial East …