fees for health providers. In addition, prospective patients might not know about all health services available. This study … choice of health providers in rural Papua New Guinea. Methods: Using an original questionnaire, we surveyed households in the … catchment area surrounding Dagua Health Center in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, during February–March 2015. We …

Background: Valuation is a critical part of the costing process in health economic evaluations. However, an overview of … used in health economic evaluation is lacking. We aimed to inform the development of an international, harmonized and multi … Use in multi-sectoral National and International health economic evaluAtions) project. Methods: We conducted a scoping …

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. …

of the municipality National Health Insurance and the Japanese Health Insurance Association in Fukuoka Prefecture. We …

Background: Concerns about rising health care costs require rigorous economic study to inform clinical and policy … methodological and reporting quality through economic evaluation guidelines (Evers, Drummond, Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation … Reporting Standards (CHEERS), Fukuda and Imanaka checklists). Following the Panel on Cost Effectiveness in Health and Medicine …

This paper investigates the difference in the health conditions and the health care consumption of uninsured … worse health conditions. However, if we compare individuals within the same diagnosis category, the uninsured are actually … less health care. In particular, conditional on being admitted to a hospital and controlling for health conditions, the …

The global health security (GHS) Index assesses countries' level of preparedness to health risks. However, there is no … evidence on how and whether the efects of health systems building blocks and socioeconomic indicators on the level of … preparedness difer for low and high prepared countries. The aim of this study was to examine the contributions of health systems …

Background Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to provide quality healthcare services and safeguard the population … from the fnancial burden of catastrophic health expenditure. Its primary objectives are to improve longevity and enhance …) and explores whether public health programs can reduce social inequality. By employing SWB inequality as a measure, we go …

The Ghanaian National Health Insurance Scheme pays providers according to the fee for service payment scheme, a method … patients. An instrumental variable Poisson estimation was used to compare the demand curves for health care by insured …

Background: In the day surgery system are intertwined elements of state health policy, health care payers' interests …, employers of health care system, as well as the interests and wishes of patients. A problem in the health policy is to find a … strategic plan of each health system. On conceptual and methodological issues related with reporting of day surgery performances …