The National Health Insurance Scheme (Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, RSBY) aims to improve poor people’s access to quality health care in India. This paper looks at the implementation of the scheme in Karnataka, drawing on a large survey of eligible households and interviews with empanelled...

Foreword / Lori Lightfoot -- Preface : one street, two worlds -- American roulette. American roulette ; structural violence and the death gap ; Location, location, location ; Perception is reality ; the three Bs : beliefs, behavior, biology -- Trapped by inequity. Fire and rain : life and death...

Cohen and Dechezleprêtre (2022) investigate the heterogeneous impact of temperature on mortality across Mexico, and how affordable healthcare services that target the low-income population attenuate the mortality effects of weather events. They find that while extreme temperatures are more...

Gesundheitswirtschaft und Kreativwirtschaft sind bereits heute Branchen, die die Volkswirtschaftin der Bundesrepublik maßgeblich prägen. Dabei bestehen zwischen beiden Sektorendeutliche Verflechtungen und Interdependenzen, von denen beide Branchen maßgeblichprofitieren. Ziel der vorliegenden...