Premium subsidies have been advocated as an alternative to social health insurance. These subsidies are paid if … expenditure on health insurance exceeds a given share of income. In this paper, we examine whether this approach is superior to … social insurance from a welfare perspective. We show that the results crucially depend on the correlation of health and …

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 …

generation and public health and these two factors serve as core points of analysis, that underscore a growing disconnect between … these elements, calling into question the viability of such a public health governance structure. A lesser explored approach … that have been identified in the literature, sin tax seen as a modern day indulgence may ,in fact ,promote a public health …