This Article examines state constitutions and health care rights. Notably, close to a third of states' constitutions … recognize health while the U.S. Constitution contains no reference. Ample scholarly commentary exists on the absence of a right … to health care under the U.S. Constitution but little attention has been paid to state constitutional law. This Article …

Medical utilization, such as a count of hospitalizations, is routinely used as a health proxy for both policy and … or policy changes have altered hospitalizations at the same level of health. In this work, we document how … hospitalizations have evolved as a marker for subsequent health (mortality and morbidity) and subsequent utilization (hospitalizations …

This paper evaluates the contraceptive mandate as a public health initiative. It applies two fairly standard analytical … frameworks used to scrutinize public health ethics, policy, and law issues. The first is a framework for analyzing public health … ethics and deliberating about public health activities offered by a team of bioethicists and public health law and policy …

therefore a relevant justificatory claim for other domains of health care. Taking the controversial Abigail Alliance for Better … response presents an alternative theoretical approach to the question of rights to health and health care, arguing that a right … to health care need not, indeed cannot, be framed in an absolute libertarian framework of wholly individualistic rights …

Health disparities represent a significant strand in the fabric of racial injustice in the United States, one that has … limited progress in narrowing the health gap between whites and racial and ethnic minorities. The implementation of the … Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the movement toward value-based payment methods for health care may supply a new avenue for …

health care. Services typically sought by travelers include elective procedures as well as complex specialized surgeries … that is promoting the "high-tech healing" of its private healthcare sector as a tourist attraction. The government hopes to …-class medical treatment and India is becoming a "global health destination". This policy however does not develops into better …

healthcare interventions and preservation of privacy, is different from public health practice in clinical medicine. Public … health burdens. Ethical principles of public health are distinguishable from principles applied in modern bioethics … pubic health ethics applies at the population-based or macroethical level. Resolution of issues, for instance of consent to …

In this paper, we seek to examine the factors that influence the choice of healthcare providers in the rural areas of a … household survey of 500 villages from across 10 villages around the town of Nabha. We examined the role of health costs in … measure of anticipated treatment cost in order to account for the endogeneity of the actual treatment costs in healthcare …

Urbanization has been progressing quickly in Indonesia and the consequences on health and health inequities are still … not well understood. In this paper, we present new empirical evidence on the differences in the utilization of health care … services between rural and urban areas as well as for the respective health inequities. Exploiting the rich dataset of the …

episodes, we show that investing in community-based healthcare, which relied on less-specialized health workers, led to a more …We study the efficiency in health systems generated by community health teams, a common strategy in low- and middle …-income countries for primary healthcare delivery. We exploit the rollout of a nation-wide expansion of coverage to this model in El …