of the North and the South in the global health arena. -- Multinational Pharmaceutical Corporations (MNPCs) ; HIV …/AIDS ; global health governance ; pricing of ARVs … wurden, die die Architektur der "Global Health Governance" entscheidend verändert haben. …

Quality improvement collaboratives have become a common strategy for improving health care. This paper uses social … among major health plans to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the United States. Pre-existing ties, the …. Findings suggest that sponsors and support organizations, along with a few of the health plans, form the core of this network …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- andbetween-country inequality …. We rely on standardized height indicators as our health indicator sincethey avoid the measurement pitfalls of more … traditional measures of health such as morbidity,mortality and life expectancy. They also avoid measurement problems associated …

This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … longitudinal component of the data to analyze how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time …. Immigrants are shown to be healthier than natives upon their arrival ("healthy immigrant effect"), but their health deteriorates …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … government health care expenditures. …