better coverage, quality, financial protection, and health outcomes. It builds on newly commissioned case studies and lessons … Health Development in Kobe (Japan). …

While Canadians have long held equal access to health care based on need, rather than ability to pay, as a core social … value, successive Canadian governments have failed to ensure timely access to adequate health care for all. As a result …, access to health care is increasingly being pursued as a right under the Canadian Charter. In this context, the author …

The importance of the physician-patient relationship for the health care market is beyond controversy. Recent work … that physician consultation and health relevant behavior are not stochastically independent. In the recursive bivariate … probit model, patient's health relevant behavior has a significant influence on the probability of a physician visit. This …

This paper examines two strategies aimed at demonstrating that moral obligations to improve global health exist. The … health-related moral obligations beyond borders. This paper argues that political reasoning is unsuitable for the crucial … task of determining priority in the receipt of health aid. We conclude that in the context of global health ethics …

This paper provides a closed-form solution for the health capital model of health demand. The results are exploited in … model, the pure consumption model and a combination of both types of models. Given the plausible assumptions that (i) health … declines with age and that (ii) the health capital stock at death is lower than the health capital stock needed for eternal …