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The vulnerability of health sector to corruption lies in the complex interaction between the social environment and the institutional setting of health systems. We investigate this interaction in the case of Italy, speci�cally looking at the impact of corruption on health expenditure. In Italy...
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Increasing and sustaining the quality of life for people can be possible when they are healthy. Good health conditions require good quality and reachable health care services. Because of the market failure as a result of asymmetric information, public sector as well as private one provides...
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This paper examines the factors that are contributing at the most explained and efficient way to health expenditures in Greece. Two methods are applied. Multiple regressions and vector error correction models are estimated, as also unit root tests applied to define in which order variables are...
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. Infant mortality rate, under five mortality rate and life expectancy were used as proxy for health outcomes. Specifically … mortality rate by 1.64% on average, under five mortality by 1.76% and the increase in life expectancy with an average growth of … on under-five mortality rates but affects infant mortality rate. This may suggest that the past and present level of …
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introduction of prescription drug coverage for older individuals via Medicare Part D. For policy makers who design such a market … Medicare Part D. We first analyze how well the hypothetical choice data predict willingness to pay and market shares at the …
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Data from Stability Programs (European Countries) and from Us Congress Budget Office and Us Bureau of Census are collected to investigate the burden each worker will have to bear in the future in order to finance pension and health care provisions. If the private side of the system is based,...
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This paper describes how state-of-the-art methods of choice modeling can be used to analyze consumer choice behavior in "competitive" health insurance markets. I use the insurance choices of senior citizens in the U.S. as an example. I then consider the issue of whether consumers benefit when we...
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Medicare and Social Security, military spending on overseas operations, outsourcing to low minimum wage countries, the effects …
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This is an effort at explaining the reasons and rationale behind the rising mortality rate (CDR) in the South Indian …
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The paper examines the effect of top income shares on the crude death and infant mortality rates. We use balanced panel … mortality rates. The most important finding is that there is no overall relationship between top income shares and mortality. If …
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