<Para ID="Par1">Physician services comprise a substantial share of total health care spending, and the price of health … care services has been cited as a key contributor to the disproportionately high rate of health care spending in the US … extent to which physicians exercise market power. In this study we make use of a private health insurance claims data set to …

health and education services, the Zimbabwean government then presided over the progressive decay and near collapse of the …

. It presents the findings in four key areas: household water management, health and well-being, irrigation water … additional threats to health. Women in arsenic affected areas face excommunication if detected with arsenicosis; in coastal areas …

A frequent empirical approach toward examining the impact of health on economic growth has been to focus on data for a … cross-section of countries and to regress the income indicator on the health indicator controlling for the initial level of … growth regression approach has mainly offered evidence for the relationship between health and income, using cross …

A number of cross-national studies find that democratic rule has beneficial effects on the health of nations. These … public goods and services that have an impact on health outcomes. Like national governments, state governments differ in the … quantity and quality of public goods they provide. Consequently, interstate variations in health outcomes are quite common and …

and proper sanitation. Habitation in such houses poses a health risk, particularly for children and women. The Indian … associated risks to children’s and women’s health are significantly higher in the rural areas than in the urban areas. Our …, this difference is much greater than that for some indicators of health care and household poverty.JEL Classification: Râ …

adverse health effects of burning coal. Lockwood’s comprehensive treatment examines every aspect of coal, from its complex … chemical makeup to details of mining, transporting, burning, and disposal--each of which generates significant health concerns … will only get worse; explains the impact of global warming on coal-related health problems; and discusses possible policy …