Health Equity, Cuban Style

Affirmative action, Cuban style.

Equity style timing using support vector regressions

The disappointing performance of value and small cap strategies shows that style consistency may not provide the long-term benefits often assumed in the literature. In this study it is examined whether the short-term variation in the US size and value premium is predictable. Style-timing strategies are documented based on technical and (macro-) economic predictors using a recently developed art...

Reducing Health Inequities Through Intersectoral Action: Balancing Equity in Health With Equity for Other Social Goods

Significant attention has been devoted to developing intersectoral strategies to reduce health inequities; however, these strategies have largely neglected to consider how equity in health ought to be weighted and balanced with the pursuit of equity for other social goods (eg, education equity). Research in this domain is crucial, as the health sector’s pursuit of health equity may be at odds w...

Cuban health care: benefits without costs.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 329 6 AUGUST 2010 601 COVER Mexican free-tailed bats roost at Bracken Cave near San Antonio, Texas. Streicker et al. (p. 676) describe how the spread of new forms of rabies virus is restricted between bat species; Frick et al. (p. 679) explain how a fungal disease of bats, white-nose syndrome, is likely to lead to local extinctions of once-common bat species. Phot...

Equity in health care.

It has long been known that a segment of the population enjoys distinctly better health status and higher quality of health care than others. To solve this problem, prioritization is unavoidable, and the question is how priorities should be set. Rational priority setting would seek equity amongst the whole population, the extent to which people receive equal care for equal needs. Equity in heal...