The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the … that high-income states in 1992 were better able to enact public health strategies and adopt behaviors that, over the next …

"The public health benefits of giving city dwellers increased opportunities to lead physically active lifestyles are … well known to urban planners, public health scholars, and government officials. Moreover, increases in "active living … the public health agenda through a range of public and private organizations, and secure committed political champions. At …

Interactions between knowledge and health are studied in a three-period overlapping generations model with health … rearing. Growth dynamics depend in important ways on the externalities associated with knowledge and health. Depending on the … strength of these externalities, increases in government spending on education or health (financed by a cut in unproductive …

of contemporary ubiquitous health and medical informatics. Contributions highlight changes to healthcare distribution …Identifying the Emerging e-Health Technologies To Ubiquity 2.0 and Beyond / Sabah Mohammed, Jinan Fiaidhi -- Semantic … Interoperability Issue of Standardizing Medical Vocabularies / W. Ed Hammond -- Personal Health Records Status-Quo and Future …

The challenge of health care delivery and health policy -- Organization of care -- Government and health insurance … : the policy process -- Comparative health systems -- Population health -- Public health : a transformation for the 21st … century -- Health and behavior -- Vulnerable populations : meeting the health needs of populations -- Facing health …