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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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

Demographic and Health Survey of 2008 - 2009 together with additional administrative data. Both a single-level model and a multi … on birth weight. The results imply that infant health can be improved by using prenatal care adequately. The study calls … availability of skilled health care providers such as doctors and nurses at prenatal care clinics, reducing the average distances …

The study investigates the effect of wealth on maternal health care utilization in Ghana via its effect on Antenatal … care use. Antenatal care serves as the initial point of contact of expectant mothers to maternal health care providers … before delivery. The study is pivoted on the introduction of the free maternal health care policy in April 2005 in Ghana with …

The perception of the health sector from an economic policy point of view is changing. In the past, health expenditure … was mostly seen as a "cost" item, probably because many medical treatments are covered by public health insurance. However …, policymakers are increasingly realizing that a growing health sector may be quite beneficial for an economy. It creates employment …

review found 53 BWS applications in health and healthcare. This article expounds possibilities of application, the underlying …

. Causality has rarely been assessed due to the challenges posed by the endogeneity of health service supply. In this study, using … data from Mozambique, we investigate the effect of healthcare service availability, measured as the type of health … heterogeneous effects based on the distance of households to the closest health facility. We find that living in the proximity of a …