of immunization coverage in India using the recent National Family Health Survey data. Measurement of socioeconomic … inequalities in health and health care, and understanding the determinants of such inequalities in terms of their contributions …, are critical for health intervention strategies and for achieving equity in health care. A decomposition approach is …

surrounding it. Empirical health economists have been challenged to find natural experiments to test the theory because PID is … delivery under Taiwan's National Health Insurance system during the study period, and tocolytic hospitalizations. Methods: The … primary data were obtained from the 1996 to 2004 National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan. We hypothesized that a …

healthcare of IBD patients in Germany?" Methods: We combined a claims dataset from a German health insurance fund with population … pathways and guidelines. No clear evidence of a general healthcare undersupply in rural areas was found. …

This study assesses the impact of children’s health insurance programs on health care utilization and health care … 2006 to 2012. We find a positive effect of both student and free health insurance programs on the number of health care … visits. This positive impact tends to increase over time, and the impact of the free health insurance program is larger than …

Understanding socioeconomic inequalities in health care is critical for achieving health equity. The aim of this paper … is threefold: 1) to quantify inequality in diabetes health care service utilization; 2) to understand determinants of … contributing factors was applied. Differences in diabetes patients’ health care utilization patterns suggest that use of services …

risk assessment in primary dental care could prevent osteoporotic related fractures and benefit women’s health and quality … of life, as well as have a major impact on the health-care budget in terms of costsavings. …

There are many existing methodologies on measuring health equity, while seldom has method aiming at health resource … allocation. We collected 6 method of measuring equity in health resource allocation. This paper presents key contents of methods … on measuring horizontal equity in health service allocation, yet each method has its advantages and disadvantages as well …

over monetary outcomes. The goal of our experiment is to test whether these violations also affect the evaluation of health … choice behaviour, we can conclude that previously reported violations do not seem to bias health utility measurement. …