<strong>Introduction:</strong> In the current economic context, all partners in health care delivery systems, be they public or private, are obliged to identify the factors that influence the utilization of health care services. To improve our understanding of the phenomena that underlie these relationships,...

Widely used summary measures of inequality or the "disappearing middle class" are potentially misleading. Divergences between evidence cited and conclusions drawn include failing to distinguish the concepts of inequality and polarization, and using scalar oinequalityo measures which are not...

Conventional wisdom has it that U. S. society is both richer and more unequal than Canadian society, and that both have become more unequal in recent decades. It is true that earnings inequality increased in both countries from 1974 to 1985. However, in the 1985 to 1995 period, while generally...

Le role de l'innovation technique dans la croissance economique est a la fois une question qui interesse beaucoup la gestion des affaires publiques et un domaine de la theorie economique ou la recherche est active. Or l'elaboration de theories economiques est souvent limitee par des...

Introduction : Le contexte economique actuel oblige tous les partenaires des reseaux de soins de sante, qu'ils soient publics ou prives, a identifier les facteurs qui conditionnent l'utilisation des services de soins de sante. Pour ameliorer notre comprehension des phenomenes qui sous-tendent...

Users of socio-economic statistics typically want more and better information. Often, these needs can be met simply by more extensive data collections, subject to usual concerns over financial costs and survey respondent burdens. Users, particularly for public policy purposes, have also...