eventually controlled through public health efforts at the municipal level. Using data from 26 major American cities for the … suggest that public health interventions undertaken at the municipal level contributed to the dissipation of summer diarrhea …

This paper compares health care systems. It looks beyond normal academic, political, or journalistic rhetoric, by …. The paper finds that a number of myths and common believes in health care policy are not supported by emprical evidence …. Global health care policy, as well as health care policy in United States, needs to look at statistical data and profound …

We study the steady upward trend of Health Care Expenditures (HCE) over GDP for a sample of OECD countries between 1970 … ratio of HCE over GDP in the US. This suggests that differences in the relative price of health care – rather than …

This paper assesses the performance of the United States health system in an international context and discusses … potential directions for reform. The US health system is unique among OECD countries in its heavy reliance on the private sector … for both financing and delivery of health care. The public sector plays a not-insignificant role, providing coverage for …

Although the crisis of health care in the United States is widely acknowledged – marked by poor health outcomes, high … costs, unequal access, and widening health inequities – its structural underpinnings have not been adequately addressed, and … reformers have settled on promoting piecemeal measures to avoid disruption. The human right to health care offers an analytical …