. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …

People in Canada and the U.S. often make claims regarding whose country has a better health system. Several researchers … have attempted to address this question by analysing subjective health in the two countries, thus assuming a common … definition of “good” health. Using data from the Joint Canada/U.S. Survey of Health, I generate quasi-objective health indices …

Act (ACA), former President Obama's signature health insurance law. His very first executive order, signed within hours of … this fundamental policy shift affect the U.S. health care and health insurance systems? Those questions were explored by a … panel of health and policy experts at the Employee Benefit Research Institute's 79th policy forum held in Washington, DC …

We estimate the health costs of supply-side barriers to accessing medical care. The setting is Colombia, where citizens … have a constitutional right to health care, but insurance companies that manage delivery impose restrictions on access. We … use administrative data on judicial claims for health as a proxy for unmet demand. We validate this using the register …

France’s health-care system offers high-quality care. Average health outcomes are good, public satisfaction with the … health-care system is high, and average household out-of-pocket expenditures are low. As in other OECD countries, technology … by care providers, tackle the high spending on pharmaceuticals, strengthen the role of health insurers as purchasing …

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 …

This paper evaluates the contraceptive mandate as a public health initiative. It applies two fairly standard analytical … frameworks used to scrutinize public health ethics, policy, and law issues. The first is a framework for analyzing public health … ethics and deliberating about public health activities offered by a team of bioethicists and public health law and policy …

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 …

In 2006, the state of Massachusetts sanctioned the individual health insurance mandate and the expansion of health …. This finding may results from the expansion of health insurance coverage, which reduces the financial stress and improves … the mental health and wellbeing particularly among the low income families …