The health of the population represents one of the main objectives of the development. Even if the sanitary conditions …

declining health insurance coverage. In this paper we examine the long term effects of the only employer health insurance … mandate that has ever been enforced in the United States, Hawaii's Prepaid Health Care Act, using a standard supply … Hawaii and other states increased, as did real health insurance costs, implying a rising burden of the mandate on Hawaii …

In this paper we investigate the joint conditional distribution of health (life expectancy) and income growth and its …

An important issue for health policy and planning is the way in which multiple sources of disadvantage, such as class …, gender, caste, race, ethnicity, and so forth, work together to influence health. Although 'intersectionality' is a topic for … limitations in the quantitative methods used to study intersectionality in health, even though the techniques used to analyse …

The literature evaluating population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines exploring biological and …, health outcomes, and reproductive behavior, which operate in many directions. The connection between conditions under which … people live and their expected life span and health status refer to “health production functions”. The relationships between …

claims' data gathered by a major Swiss health insurer, over a period of six years and involving 160 000 insured adults. In … Switzerland, health insurance is mandatory, but everyone has the option of choosing between a managed care plan and a fee … much lower average health expenditures than a conventional insurance plan. Reasons for this may include selection …

health indicators. The results indicate a strong effect of macroeconomic conditions during childhood on mortality at all ages …

There are studies showing linkages between religious beliefs and health. The importance of religion on health has been … examined by studies (Vaux 1976), the dietary beliefs in health and illness (Chan Ho 1985), the role of religion in morbidity … and mortalitiy (Jarvis and North Cott 1987), the Religion and other factors influencing health status (Idler and Kasl 1992 …

health is very common due to the recent development in Information Communication Technology. The cost of equipments in ICT in … technology on the public health system. The utilisation of such systems depends on various factors. They include, costs involved … in maintaining such systems, the benefits of such systems to the health personnel and the general population, what are …

basic services would help in improving outcomes in the south, with a focus on health and education. Finally, we discuss the … existing evidence on the impact that programs such as the Education, Health, and Nutrition Program (Programa de Educación …