A health equity lens on government policies

Health Promotion Through an Equity Lens

Addressing health systems strengthening through an health equity lens

Addressing inequalities in health outcomes especially for women and children is, perhaps, the most important challenge towards achieving sustainable health gains. Despite impressive improvements in overall indicators of health over recent decades, health inequalities within and between countries persist and, in many cases, have widened and continue to widen. At the global level, the survival ga...

Evaluation of Health Equity Impact of Structural Policies

This article briefly assesses the research methods that were applied in the SOPHIE project to evaluate the impact of structural policies on population health and health inequalities. The evaluation of structural policies is one of the key methodological challenges in today's public health. The experience in the SOPHIE project was that mixed methods are essential to identify, understand, and pre...

On Modeling the Effects of Government Policies

An important question in macroeconomics is how government policies affect the cconomy. The fact that this question is still being debated forty-three years after John Maynard Keynes wrote The General Theory and thirty-nine years after Jan Tinbergen did his pioneering econometric study of business cycles for the League of Nations indicates the difficulty of answering it. Although it is easy to c...

Government-Mandated Discriminatory Policies∗

This paper provides a simple explanation for why some minority groups are economically successful, despite being subject to government-mandated discriminatory policies. We study an economy with private and public sectors in which workers invest in imperfectly observable skills that are important to the private sector but not to the public sector. A law allows native majority workers to be emplo...