, and protection from the risk of financial loss. For health systems, this goal is of particular importance and especially … special concern about how health systems are financed.(Behrman 1995;Londoño & Frenk 1997;World Health Organization 2000) Much … of the public discourse in countries undertaking health sector reform is focused on the design of health system financing …

health outcomes or healthcare quality, and to explore how to expand the empirical opportunities for measuring such outcomes … using U.S. national survey data. To these ends, the paper provides an overview of Grossman's seminal health production …

health outcomes or healthcare quality, and to explore how to expand the empirical opportunities for measuring such outcomes … using U.S. national survey data. To these ends, the paper provides an overview of Grossman's seminal health production …