Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 158
Cover Image
Health expenditures spent for prevention, economic performance, and social welfare
Wang, Fuhmei; Wang, Jung-der; Huang, Yu-xiu - In: Health economics review 6 (2016) 45, pp. 1-10
Background: Countries with limited resources in economic downturns often reduce government expenditures, of which spending on preventive healthcare with no apparent immediate health impact might be cut down first. This research aims to find the optimum share of preventive health expenditure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586765
Cover Image
Factors for healthcare utilization and effect of mutual health insurance on healthcare utilization in rural communities of South Achefer Woreda, North West, Ethiopia
Tilahun, Hiwot; Atnafu, Desta Debalkie; Asrade, Geta; … - In: Health economics review 8 (2018) 15, pp. 1-8
Objective: To identify factors for healthcare utilization and to describe effect of Mutual Health Insurance on health … utilization. Conclusion: Enrolment to mutual health insurance increases healthcare utilization. Presence of illness in the … Health Insurance scheme should be targeted during escalating of healthcare utilization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011896510
Cover Image
A multilevel analysis of prenatal care and birth weight in Kenya
Awiti, Japheth Osotsi - In: Health economics review 4 (2014) 33, pp. 1-16
mothers have to cover when seeking prenatal care services, intensifying education of females as a way of empowering them to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526628
Cover Image
Wealth and antenatal care use : implications for maternal health care utilisation in Ghana
Arthur, Eric - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 14, pp. 1-8
that wealth still has a significant influence on adequate use of Antenatal care. Education, age, number of living children …, transportation and health insurance are other factors that were found to influence the use of Antenatal care in Ghana. There also … medication at the health center; secondly, women should be encouraged to pursue education to at least the secondary level since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752865
Cover Image
Health insurance coverage in Ethiopia : financial protection in the Era of sustainable cevelopment goals (SDGs)
Merga, Bedasa Taye; Balis, Bikila; Bekele, Habtamu; … - In: Health economics review 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-7
Background: Health insurance is among the healthcare financing reforms proposed to increase the available healthcare …-based health insurance which mainly targets the very large rural agricultural sector and small and informal sector in urban … settings. Therefore, this study was aimed to assess the coverage of health insurance and its determinants in Ethiopia. Methods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330568
Cover Image
Aligning public financial management system and free healthcare policies : lessons from a free maternal and child healthcare programme in Nigeria
Ogbuabor, Daniel Chukwuemeka; Onwujekwe, Obinna Emmanuel - In: Health economics review 9 (2019) 17, pp. 1-10
Background: Relatively little is known about how public financial management (PFM) systems and health financing policies align in low- and middle-income countries. This study assessed the alignment of PFM systems with health financing functions in the free maternal and child healthcare programme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033225
Cover Image
Providing a model for financing the treatment costs during biological crises using the fiscal space development approach
Yaghoubi, Maryam; Idehlo, Masoud Vahedi; mehdizadeh, Parisa - In: Health economics review 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-12
insurance funds (0.0934), and tax exemptions for economic activists in the health sector (0.009303) during the crisis … expenditures, and implementing structural reforms. To finance health expenditures, harmful and luxury goods taxes can be increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014500508
Cover Image
Promoting vaccinations - an analysis of measures taken by German statutory health insurers
Damm, Kathrin; Schubert, Jana M.; Schulenburg, … - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 16, pp. 1-6
fees was made compulsory for the statutory health insurance companies and statutory requirements were imposed on the … evaluate to what extent the health insurance companies promote the increasing of vaccination coverage rate today and what … "prophylactic vaccinations" we have examined the websites of 68 statutory health insurance companies. We have assessed the attitude …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009503925
Cover Image
Private hospital accreditation and inducement of care under the Ghanaian National Insurance Scheme
Amporfu, Eugenia - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 13, pp. 1-9
The Ghanaian National Health Insurance Scheme pays providers according to the fee for service payment scheme, a method …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009503928
Cover Image
Transitivity in health utility measurement : an experimental analysis
Schmidt, Ulrich; Stolpe, Michael - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 12, pp. 1-4
Several experimental studies have observed substantial violations of transitivity for decisions between risky lotteries over monetary outcomes. The goal of our experiment is to test whether these violations also affect the evaluation of health states. A particular feature of our experimental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009503929