This paper explores the health harms of stigma in both patient-provider relationships and health insurer arrangements …

An extensive literature has documented racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health care and health outcomes … regions where quality levels for all patients, black and white, are lower. Thus ensuring equal access to health care at the … local or hospital level may not by itself erase overall health care disparities. However, reducing geographic disparities in …

modes; health care access; long-run opportunity, as measured by income mobility and incarceration rates; human mobility; and … underlying population health. We find that the proportions of black and Hispanic residents in a ZIP code are both positively and …

"This book is designed to introduce a community health group to the potential of using a Geographic Information System … to improve birth outcomes. It provides an overview of why geography is important in the investigation of health, the … found between urban and rural health environments"--Provided by publisher. …

other variables, like health variables, are inconclusive. Our objective in this paper is to analyse the health convergence … the explanatory variables of health convergence as well as the unobserved spatiotemporal extra-variability. Our results … indicate that, in terms of health, although there was a catching-up process between the EU-27 regions between 1995 and 2009 …

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