Local Geographic Variation of Public Services Inequality: Does the Neighborhood Scale Matter?

Local Geographic Variation of Public Services Inequality: Does the Neighborhood Scale Matter?

This study aims to explore the effect of the neighborhood scale when estimating public services inequality based on the aggregation of social, environmental, and health-related indicators. Inequality analyses were carried out at three neighborhood scales: the original census blocks and two aggregated neighborhood units generated by the spatial "k"luster analysis by the tree edge removal (SKATER...

Globalization and Income Inequality: Does the Level of Financial Development Matter?

This paper examines the impact of globalization on income inequality in a panel of 78 developed and developing countries over 2002–2015. Moreover, the indirect effect of financial development in the link between globalization and income inequality is also analyzed by incorporating the interaction term between globalization and financial development. The empirical evidence based on the first-dif...

Public Services and Household Allocation in Africa: Does Gender Matter?

Geographic variation in Medicare services.

n engl j med 368;16 nejm.org april 18, 2013 1465 and other health care providers. In particular, the committee was asked whether Medicare should modify payments to adjust for the value of services delivered in a region by using a value index. Such an index would account for both the health benefit obtained from delivered services and their cost. Payment rates would then be raised in areas where...

inequality in the geographic distribution of health workers in the public health sector in iran

inequality in the geographic distribution of health workers in the public health sector in iran rezaei s1 (msc), karamimatin b1 (phd), akbari sari a2* (phd) 1research center for environmental determinants of health, kermanshah university of medical sciences, kermanshah, iran. 2deptment of health management and economics, school of public health, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, ir...