The world has enjoyed huge improvements in population health during the last half century. But major health problems … deal with noncommunicable diseases. Several classic arguments for public spending on health have buttressed governments …’ efforts to improve health. These efforts have now been further spurred by new economic arguments that better population health …

The right to health has been repeatedly recognized as one of the core human rights, essential for human functioning …, human dignity, economic well-being, and development. But the right to health continues to elude hundreds of millions and … health in developing countries. Achieving universal health coverage, before the additional costs of Covid-19, would require …

-experimental evidence on the impact of fiscal decentralization on health disparities between- and within-regions. Our findings, robust to a …

The global health security (GHS) Index assesses countries' level of preparedness to health risks. However, there is no … evidence on how and whether the efects of health systems building blocks and socioeconomic indicators on the level of … preparedness difer for low and high prepared countries. The aim of this study was to examine the contributions of health systems …

model with endogenous aging and longevity. Individuals can slow down aging and postpone death by health investments and by … smoke less and invest more in their health. Consequently, they accumulate health deficits faster and die earlier than … originally planned. This fundamental health consequence of time-inconsistency has not been addressed in the literature so far …

mortality. The economy consists of two sectors: final goods production and a health care sector, selling medical services to … individuals. Individuals demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We derive the age …We study the role of health care within a continuous time economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous …

Regarding the connection between economic development and public health, the statistically evident correlation between … be identified, whose origins are in part inherent to the special structural characteristics of the market for health but … focus on the demand for health, this paper takes a holistic approach toward modeling the health market, in order to account …

We investigate the impact of early-life medical interventions on low-risk newborn health. A policy rule in The …, we find no health benefits from additional treatments for average newborns. However, there is substantial heterogeneity … in returns to treatments with significant health benefits for newborns in the lowest income quartile and no benefits in …

This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey … provided at family health centers, which operate on a walk-in basis and are located within the neighborhoods in close proximity …