...Bruce Stuart; Edward Reutzel; Thomas Reutzel This paper demonstrates the application of a mathematical programming model to a longstanding policy issue in the Medicaid reform debate: the redistribution of program funds necessary to achieve equity in eligibility and benefit coverage across states...

...Bruce Jacobs; William Weissert A majority of elderly Americans have the bulk of their assets tied up in the houses they own. Reverse mortgages could tap this home equity, providing loan disbursements without requiring older homeowners to make monthly payments on principal and interest. In this...

...Keith J. Mueller Steven Eastaugh, Financing Health Care: Economic Efficiency and Equity (Dover: Auburn House, 1987). Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 386 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law if the acute care hospital beds are utilized more intensively by high...

... by African Americans persists. Parity in use is an illusive benchmark for measuring progress in assuring equity in treatment. Duke University Press 2008 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. 2006. National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2005. January. www.ahrq.gov/qual/nhdr05/nhdr05...

.... Japan: Maintaining Equity through Regulated Fees Naoki lkegami Keio University Abstract Japan was the first non-Western country to introduce social insurance and...

...Lawrence D. Brown Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 Washington Report Election-Year Equity Lawrence D. Brown Political science has generally assigned to the budgetary process a prominent but secondary status in the...

...Rongal D. Nikora; Deborah R. McFarlane World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health . Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 2008. 246 pp. $40.00 paper, or free...

...Michael K. Gusmano Olson Laura Katz . The Politics of Medicaid . New York : Columbia University Press , 2010 . 416 pp. $32.50 cloth. Grannemann Thomas W. and Pauly Mark V. . Medicaid Everyone Can Count On: Public Choices for Equity and Efficiency . Washington, DC...

... testament to the vital importance of a legal framework designed to move the nation toward greater health equity. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 health equity Civil Rights Act Title VI Enacted as part of the watershed Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VI prohibits...

...Keith Wailoo Abstract This article examines the history of concepts and frames (such as “equity” or “disparities”) and how these frames have guided public policies and explanations about differences in health across the population. Considering the emblematic case of cancer, which has stimulated...

...Julia F. Lynch; Isabel M. Perera Abstract In this article we explore systematically the different conceptions of health equity in key national health policy documents in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. We find substantial differences across the three countries in the...

...Martin Gorsky; Gareth Millward Abstract Britain's National Health Service (NHS) is a universal, single-payer health system in which the central state has been instrumental in ensuring equity. This article investigates why from the 1970s a policy to achieve equal access for equal need was...

...Barbara Starfield This essay provided the introduction to a workshop in Bellagio, Italy, on the subject of translating research into policy for equity in health. The essay first defines equity in a way that facilitates its assessment and monitoring and then summarizes evidence from existing...

...Patricia M. Pittman In an attempt to better understand the complex and sometimes tenuous relationship between health equity research and health policy, we undertook a collaborative comparison of six case studies with researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, China...

...Richard Freeman At the center of the politics of health equity, in many countries and circumstances, stands a signal report of research. This article is concerned with what might be described as the architecture of such documents, including how they are produced and organized and the relationships...

...Michael K. Gusmano; Daniel Weisz; Victor G. Rodwin The question posed in this article is whether single-payer health care systems are more likely to provide equal treatment for equal need (horizontal equity) than are multipayer systems. To address this question, we compare access to primary and...

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...Mark A. Hall Abstract United States' courts have played a limited, yet key, role in shaping health equity in three areas of law: racial discrimination, disability discrimination, and constitutional rights. Executive and administrative action has been much more instrumental than judicial decisions...