Widening economic inequality in the USA has been accompanied by increasing disparities
in health outcomes. The life expectancy of the wealthiest Americans now exceeds that of the …

This paper reviews what is known about socio‐economic inequalities in health care in
England, with particular attention to inequalities relative to need that may be considered …

The UK has recorded one of the highest death rates associated with COVID-19 globally,
whether measured as deaths that are directly attributable to COVID-19 or by excess …

This paper presents and compares two threshold approaches to measuring the fairness of
health care payments, one requiring that payments do not exceed a pre‐specified proportion …

Poverty and ill-health are intertwined. Poor countries tend to have worse health outcomes
than better-off countries. Within countries, poor people have worse health outcomes than …

The publication of this book is in large part due to the role of Canada's Inter national
Development Research Center (IDRC) in encouraging policy-relevant research in the fields …

The aim of this study was to examine the complex interactions between political traditions,
policies, and public health outcomes, and to find out whether different political traditions …

The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery.
The focus is, for the most part, on empirical work, especially that involving international and …

Economic Analysis in Health Care, Second Edition is intended as a core textbook for
advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of health economics. The authors …

This paper presents further international comparisons of progressivity of health care
financing systems. The paper builds on the work of Wagstaff et al.[Wagstaff, A., van …