Health constitutes a fundamental aspect of our well-being. It is also a key factor in determining our contribution to … market and non-market output. Health inequality refers to the unequal realization of health outcomes between different groups … in the population. Systematic disparities in health outcomes and in access to health resources not only undermine basic …

The health landscape in Latin America and the Caribbean is changing quickly. The region is undergoing a demographic and … epidemiological transition in which health problems are highly concentrated on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). In light of this, the … describes both alternative interventions to expand health insurance coverage and their tradeoff with labor informality and moral …

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 …

Despite the increasing interest in universal health care, little is known about the optimal way to finance, design, and … to be designed to ensure the system’s financial viability. Regarding the optimal way to implement universal health care …, certain preconditions are needed, including sound public administration, a small informal economy, and a transparent health …

Vietnam has dealt historically with health as a valuable asset, a resource that was distributed in an equal manner to … all citizens through the development of a wide and inclusive grassroots health network during the 1970s. Since then, the … health system has developed - in parallel to the country's economy and shifts in policy - from a free-for-all service of a …

This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection … refinements to the estimation of out-of-pocket expenditures. On the health equity side, the 2019 database includes 198 more data …