The COVID-19 pandemic has been especially devastating for people with disabilities, as well as other members of marginalized communities. Indeed, an emerging body of scholarship has revealed striking disparities experienced by people with disabilities. In particular, scholars have shined a light...

"Population Health in Canada is an edited collection that presents critical analyses of pressing population health equity issues as well as interventions for community action. This book consists of selected research papers, blogs, and briefs produced by the Population Health Improvement Research...

How does economic inequality affect public spending on healthcare in democracies? Does this depend upon the demographic composition of the electorate? We build a multidimensional model of political decision-making with endogenous political parties to analyse such questions. Voters in our model...

The present paper outlines measures of disparity in healthcare access and health outcomes, drawing from the standardized metrics introduced in one related study (Bancalari et al., 2023). Beveridge countries seem to be less unequal than Bismarckian countries. Yet, there is no strong pattern in...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Response of the United States to the Coronavirus Pandemic -- Chapter 3: Inequalities Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada: The Legacy of Socio-demographic Fault Lines and Inter-provincial Differences -- Chapter 4: COVID-19 Inequalities in...

Rationale: The research of social inequalities as determinantes of health state, health needs and use of health care of population is fundamental in creating and running of the health policy and planning the development health care and health management. Objectives: The main objective of the...

This article explores the hypothesis that the U.S. health care system operates more like a robber baron than like Robin Hood, burdening ordinary payers of health insurance premiums disproportionately for the benefit of industry interests and higher-income consumer-taxpayers. Thus, lower- and...