household income, socio-demographic factors, and private health insurance factors in both Japan and the USA. Using these two … rises, households have a positive effect on purchasing health insurance as a normal good. Another similarity between the two … pure health issuance characteristics, an increase in premium of health insurance policies cause individuals to substitute …

paper analysis poverty and health status during pre-reforms and post-reforms periods and compare them to find out that … during which period the decrease in poverty and the increase in health status are better. For the analysis of poverty, people … living below poverty line and for health status analysis life expectancy at birth and infant mortality are used in this study. …

All-Payer Claims Database (APCD) can provide invaluable information about the drivers of cost, the value of health care …, policymakers, and health services researchers. The data collected by APCDs, however, also contains information that individuals …, providers, and insurers would like to remain confidential. Given the sensitivity of individual health information contained in …

Traditionally, debates over American health coverage institutions have relied on vocabulary and concepts from the world … ties to the health insurance contract. Missing from that conversation are the interests of each individual's friends and … individual's health coverage status, illnesses, and medical interventions. These burdens undermine equality of opportunity and …

. A recent decision by United Parcel Service to eliminate health benefits for spouses who were eligible for coverage … through their own employer may be a tipping point in employment-based health benefits, in part due to provisions in the … equal, do spouses use more health services and cost more to cover? This report conducts a novel analysis that addresses this …

This paper examines public opinion surrounding employment-based health coverage. It uses data from the 2013 Health and … & Associates, as well as historical data from the Health Confidence Survey (HCS). Both surveys examine a broad spectrum of health … care issues, including workers’ satisfaction with health care today, their confidence in the future of the nation’s health …

The proved influence of inequality of opportunity (luck) and efforts (behavior in relation to health) on the health … status and mortality of individuals bring up the problem of the unequal distribution of health in a given population. This … subject is relatively little discussed in the literature on public health in developing countries including Togo. By focusing …