Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the distribution of health … care resources. We take as a working definition of health for our purposes the number of quality adjusted life years that a … synonymous with reducing inequalities in health, we also consider the much richer variety of concepts employed by philosophers …

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 …

This Article examines state constitutions and health care rights. Notably, close to a third of states' constitutions … recognize health while the U.S. Constitution contains no reference. Ample scholarly commentary exists on the absence of a right … to health care under the U.S. Constitution but little attention has been paid to state constitutional law. This Article …

Justice is so central to the mission of public health that it has been described as the field's core value. Our account … impulses that animate public health: to advance human well-being by improving health and to do so particularly by focusing on … controversies in the field, and it provides examples of the kinds of policies that public health agencies guided by a robust …

Increasing ambient temperatures will severely affect human health in the decades to come and will exacerbate a variety … of chronic health conditions. In this paper, I examine the temperaturemorbidity relationship in the tropical climate … diseases. Drawing on detailed individual level data from the Indonesian national health insurance scheme JKN and linking it …

Increasing ambient temperatures will severely affect human health in the decades to come and will exacerbate a variety … of chronic health conditions. In this paper, I examine the temperaturemorbidity relationship in the tropical climate … diseases. Drawing on detailed individual level data from the Indonesian national health insurance scheme JKN and linking it …

In this article, we discuss the public health provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). We … first set forth a framework to identify the key reforms that are needed for a robust public health system. These include … would make significant investment in public health (especially in wellness and prevention programs), it does little to …

I trace the evolution of ethical approaches to health policy in the United States and examine a number of critical … factors such as procedural mechanisms than on understanding how individuals and groups value different aspects of health and … agree on health-related decisions. Third, the nation needs workable frameworks to guide collective choices about valuable …