TThe paper measures horizontal equity in health care access and utilization in Japan by estimating the coefficients for … horizontal equity in health care access and utilization in Japan, horizontal inequity remains in health insurance premiums and …

treatment can improve social welfare and health equity in a NHS, when public supply is constrained by a fixed budget and longer …

The concept of need plays an essential role in defining legitimate health inequalities. The debate on equity in …

Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing … health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To … modes. Overall, it can be concluded that the health care reforms have not reduced equity in health care financing neither if …

This paper analyses equity in one of the largest community based health insurance programme in India: Yeshasvini, run …

Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the distribution of health … person may expect to enjoy over his or her lifetime. Although we mostly follow the economists' custom of regarding equity as …