, advertising may also have unintended but important societal and economic consequences. In this paper, we examine a public health … findings suggest that beyond the customer purchase decision, advertising can have important public health outcomes, with …

developed health systems. This paper provides new evidence on the role senior doctors play in determining patient outcomes. I …

Understanding socioeconomic inequalities in health care is critical for achieving health equity. The aim of this paper … is threefold: 1) to quantify inequality in diabetes health care service utilization; 2) to understand determinants of … contributing factors was applied. Differences in diabetes patients’ health care utilization patterns suggest that use of services …

requirements and possible reasons for interruption can help to devise more effective mechanisms to address these two global health …

Germany’s healthcare system is praised as one of the best in the world. In this article, we review Germany’s health … system by critically analysing its structure, funding, resource allocation, provider payments, efficiency, health outcomes …, and access. Whilst health provision and access are comparably high, signs of technical inefficiencies exist. Although …

The global health security (GHS) Index assesses countries' level of preparedness to health risks. However, there is no … evidence on how and whether the efects of health systems building blocks and socioeconomic indicators on the level of … preparedness difer for low and high prepared countries. The aim of this study was to examine the contributions of health systems …

Despite improvements over the past few decades, Slovak health outcomes remains poor compared with most other OECD …. Disparities in access to care and health outcomes between the Roma and the rest of the population are large. Moreover, the health … and widely perceived mismanagement of public health-care spending. Health-care spending is currently about in line with …

worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health … interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests that both types of interventions may benefit not only child health …

Malaria kills about 1,500 children every day. Based on the Demographic and Health Surveys, we examine malaria treatment …Durch Malaria sterben täglich etwa 1500 Kinder. In dem vorliegenden Artikel werden DHS (Demographic and Health Surveys … practices of various health care providers in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 90 percent of the world’s deaths due to …