health status, measured in various ways is similar in both countries, mortality/incidence ratios for various cancers tend to …Does Canada's publicly funded, single payer health care system deliver better health outcomes and distribute health … resources more equitably than the multi-payer heavily private U.S. system? We show that the efficacy of health care systems …

interaction between R&D-driven medical progress and access to health care into account. We use the model to explore potential … futures of human health and longevity. For the baseline policy scenario of health care access, the calibrated model predicts … substantial future increases in health and life expectancy, associated with rising shares of health expenditure in GDP. Freezing …

demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We characterise the individual optimum and the …We study medical progress within an economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous mortality. Individuals … general equilibrium of the economy and study the impact of improvements in the effectiveness of health care. We find that …

The study investigates the effect of wealth on maternal health care utilization in Ghana via its effect on Antenatal … care use. Antenatal care serves as the initial point of contact of expectant mothers to maternal health care providers … before delivery. The study is pivoted on the introduction of the free maternal health care policy in April 2005 in Ghana with …