BACKGROUND The Massachusetts 2006 health care reform has been called a model for the Affordable Care Act. The law attained near-universal insurance coverage and increased access to care. Its effect on population health is less clear. OBJECTIVE To determine whether the Massachusetts reform was associated with changes in all-cause mortality and mortality from causes amenable to health care. D...

OBJECTIVE To analyse trends of avoidable mortality in Europe, emphasising causes of death amenable to primary prevention through reduction of exposures, secondary prevention through early detection and treatment, and tertiary prevention through improved treatment and medical care. DESIGN Descriptive study of mortality from avoidable causes for the years 1955 through 1994, for ages 5-64 at tim...

BACKGROUND It is not known whether equity-oriented primary care investment that seeks to scale up the delivery of effective care in disadvantaged communities can reduce health inequality within high-income settings that have pre-existing universal primary care systems. We provide some non-randomised controlled evidence by comparing health inequality trends between two similar jurisdictions-one ...

BACKGROUND Few studies have tried to assess the combined cross-sectional and temporal contributions of a more comprehensive set of amenable factors to population health outcomes for wealthy countries during the last 30 years of the 20th century. We assessed the overall ecological associations between mortality and factors amenable to public health. These amenable factors included addictive and ...

In this paper we introduce two symmetric variants of amenability, symmetric module amenability and symmetric Connes amenability. We determine symmetric module amenability and symmetric Connes amenability of some concrete Banach algebras. Indeed, it is shown that $ell^1(S)$ is  a symmetric $ell^1(E)$-module amenable if and only if $S$ is amenable, where $S$ is an inverse semigroup with subsemigr...

BACKGROUND Growing mortality differences between socioeconomic groups have been reported in both Finland and elsewhere. While health behaviours and other lifestyle factors are important in contributing to health differences, some researchers have suggested that some of the mortality differences attributable to lifestyle factors could be preventable by health policy measures and that health care...