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Reservation wage of female volunteer community health workers in Dhaka urban slums: A bidding game approach

Alam, Khurshid; Tasneem, Sakiba; Huq, Molla - In: Health Economics Review 4 (2014) 16, pp. 1-10

Background: BRAC, a large Bangladeshi NGO, recently has been using female volunteer community health workers (CHWs) in Dhaka urban slums to provide maternal and child health services. Due to erratic performance-based income and higher opportunity cost the urban CHWs lose motivation which...

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Will vaccination against rotavirus infection with RIX4414 be cost-saving in Germany?

Knoll, Stefanie; Mair, Christoph; Benter, Ursula; Vouk, … - In: Health Economics Review 3 (2013) 27, pp. 1-11

cost-saving intervention from the perspective of the statutory health insurance (SHI) in Germany. Objective: The objective … to the SHI when comparing 100% rotavirus vaccination with no vaccination in Germany. Methods: A Markov cohort model …-based physicians due to the vaccine's efficacy against severe disease. Conclusions: Routine rotavirus vaccination in Germany would …

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Forgone care and financial burden due to out-of-pocket payments within the German health care system

Bremer, Patrick - In: Health Economics Review 4 (2014) 36, pp. 1-9

Background: The amount of out-of-pocket (OOP) payments within the German health care system has risen steadily within the last years. OOP payments aim to strengthen patients' cost awareness and try to restrict the demand on medical necessary treatments. However, besides the intended decline of...

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