Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the distribution of health … care resources. We take as a working definition of health for our purposes the number of quality adjusted life years that a … synonymous with reducing inequalities in health, we also consider the much richer variety of concepts employed by philosophers …

What does the around-the-clock economic activity mean for workers’ health? Despite the fact that non-standard work … health and the existing evidence is ambiguous. In this paper I examine the associations between non-standard job schedules … and workers’ physical and mental health outcomes using longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in …

This paper argues against the policy position that begins with a doomsday scenario of publicly provided health … private health insurance and spending on family health generally. Policies that inhibit female labour supply therefore have … the effect of reducing the tax base for funding public pensions and health care, while simultaneously reducing the …

offs between infant health and development and full time maternal employment in the early months of life. Time is an …

Self-selection into healthcare options biases estimates of the effects of healthcare on health outcomes. We exploit … exogenous variation in the cost of formal-sector care to show that the use of such care improves short-term health outcomes for … treatment and adhere to their medications. -- healthcare ; information ; child health ; Tanzania …

Act (ACA), former President Obama's signature health insurance law. His very first executive order, signed within hours of … this fundamental policy shift affect the U.S. health care and health insurance systems? Those questions were explored by a … panel of health and policy experts at the Employee Benefit Research Institute's 79th policy forum held in Washington, DC …

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 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 …