The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery. The focus is, for the most … discussion of the concept and definition of equity. The empirical sections cover the literature on equity in health care … financing (progressivity and horizontal equity of health care financing arrangements), equity in health care delivery …

In this paper we measure the degree of income related inequality in mental health as measured by the GHQ instrument and … general health as measured by the EQOL-5D instrument for the Catalan population. We find that income is the main contributor … to inequality, although the share of inequality in mental health that can be explained by income is much greater than the …

This paper reports an analysis of income related health inequalities at the Autonomous Community level in Spain using … the self assessed health measure in the 2001 edition of the Encuesta Nacional de Salud. We use recently developed methods … in order to cardinalise and model self assessed health within a regression framework, decompose the sources of inequality …

This paper reports an analysis of the evolution of income related health inequalities in Spain over the period 1987 …-2001. We use recently developed methods in order to cardinalise and model self assessed health within a regression framework …, decompose the sources of inequality and explain the observed differences between 1987 (one year after the 1986 General Health …