Category Archives: Health services

ENTREPRENEURSHIP OR SURVIVAL? CASTE AND GENDER OF SMALL BUSINESS IN INDIA

by Ashwini Deshpande and Smrithi Sharma CDE working Paper no.228, March 2013 We use unit-level data from the registered manufacturing segment of the Third and Fourth rounds of the Indian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) census data for 2001-2 … Continue reading

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Healthcare Inequity and Physician Scarcity:Empowering Non-Physician Healthcare

by Abhishek Sharma; Elissa ladd and M.K. Unnikrishnan Economic and Political Weekly, March 30, 2013 The massive scarcity of physicians in India, mainly in rural areas, prompted the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to propose a three-and-a-half year … Continue reading

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Equity in Hospital Services Utilisation in India

by Shankar Prinja; Man Inder Kumar; AD pinto; S jain and Rajesh ,K Economic and Political Weekly, March 23, 2013 Studies from a number of low-income countries have found that the wealthy often use publicly financed health services at a … Continue reading

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International Journal of Health Services, Volume 42 Number 3 / 2012

Social Class, Politics, and the Spirit Level: Why Income Inequality Remains Unexplained and Unsolved Carles Muntaner, Nanky Rai, Edwin Ng, Haejoo Chung Neoliberalism is Bad for Our Health Gavin Mooney Wealth Inequality and Health: A Political Economy Perspective Nadine R. … Continue reading

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International Journal of Health Services 1 to 13 of 13 Issue: Volume 42, Number 1 / 2012

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The Economic Journal,Vol.122(560),May 2012

Contents SPECIAL SESSION: FOUNDATIONS OF REVEALED PREFERENCE Foundations of Revealed Preference: Introduction (pages 287–294) Frederic Vermeulen Afriat’s Theorem and the Index Number Problem (pages 295–304) S. N. Afriat Afriat’s Theorem and some Extensions to Choice under Uncertainty (pages 305–331) W. … Continue reading

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International Journal of Health Services, Volume 41, Number 3 / 2011

CONTENTS Employment and Health How Do Macro-Level Contexts and Policies Affect the Employment Chances of Chronically Ill and Disabled People? Part I: The Impact of Recession and Deindustrialization Paula Holland, Bo Burström, Margaret Whitehead, Finn Diderichsen, Espen Dahl, Ben Barr, … Continue reading

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International Journal of Health Services Volume 41, Number 4 / 2011

¨      Gender Policy and Politics -Gender Policy Developments and Policy Regimes in 22 OECD Countries, 1979-2008 Mona C. Backhans, Bo Burström, Staffan Marklund ¨      Employment and Health -Employment Precariousness in Spain: Prevalence, Social Distribution, and Population-   Attributable Risk Percent of … Continue reading

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Health Service Inequities as Challenge to Health Security

by Rama V. Baru and ramila Bisht OIWPS-IV, September 2010 While the last two decades have been marked by sustained high economic growth, they have also witnessed growing concern about unequal gains in health outcomes. This is partly due to … Continue reading

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Engineering a Learning Healthcare System: A Look at the Future: Workshop Summary

Claudia Grossmann, W. Alexander Goolsby, LeighAnne Olsen, and J. Michael McGinnis; Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Engineering ISBN-13: 978-0-309-12064-7 Year: 2011 Improving our nation’s healthcare system is a challenge which, because of its scale and complexity, requires a … Continue reading

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