employer-provided health insurance and employer payments for FICA taxes has contributed to the growth in observed and actual … for men working full-time and year round. She finds that the decreased availability of jobs with health benefits has had a …

part of state and national health care systems, it cannot be reformed in isolation. Achieving ongoing savings within … Medicaid requires controlling costs throughout the health care system. …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …

-developed countries (LDCs) have had to cut back social spending, including spending on government health programs. As a result, these … countries have been forced to explore alternative means fo financing health services, including greater recovery of costs in the … government health sector via user fees. …

and women empowerment; reduction of child mortality; improvement of maternal health; control of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and … (gender equality), Goal 5 (maternal health), Goal 6 (control of communicable diseases), and Goal 7 (environmental …

-nutrition leading to obesity has occurred. This paper develops models of calorie demand and health supply, as reflected in aggregate …

Most data sets indicate a positive correlation between having health insurance and good health, and between having … health insurance and utilizing health care services. Yet the direction of causality is not at all clear. If we observe a … positive correlation between the utilization of health care services and insurance status, we do not know if this is be …