A country’s performance in health attainment refers to both its achievement (level) and its improvement (evolution) in the health domain. Studies on performance generally measure health attainment using the average health level of the population and quantify health improvement employing the...

Recent studies examining the relationship between family income and child health in the UK have produced mixed findings. We re-examine the income gradient in child general health and its evolution with child age in this country, using a very large sample of British children. We find that there...

[fre] L'analyse de nombreuses propositions de réforme du système d'assurance maladie, notamment celles visant à modifier le ticket modérateur, repose fortement, in fine, sur de délicates mesures empiriques des élasticités des fonctions de demande de soins. . Cet article propose un...

The aim of The Elgar Companion to Health Economics is to take an audience of advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers to the frontier of research in health economics, by providing them with short and easily readable introductions to key topics. The volume brings together 50...