One of the major challenges for health systems is to ensure that everybody has access to needed care without facing catastrophic payments or impoverishment. Argentina is middle income country that has experienced remarkable transformations in income distribution and inequality in the last...

A simple econometric analysis is undertaken concerning the impact of the degree of risk sharing in countries' health financing organization on the goals of the health system, as defined in the World Health Report 2000, i.e., the level of health and its distribution across the population, the...

One of the challenges common to all social systems is to achieve fairness in the distribution of the financing burden, and protection from the risk of financial loss. For health systems, this goal is of particular importance and especially difficult to achieve due to the catastrophic and...