We investigate whether people enrolled into voluntary health insurance (VHI) substitute public consumption with private … the case of Italy, where a mixed insurance system is in place. To this purpose, we specify a joint model for public and … private specialist visits counts, and allow for different degrees of endogenous supplementary insurance coverage, looking at …

public service delivery and maternal and child health outcomes. The programme had a strong focus on ensuring the … village-based health providers. We detect economically large improvements in pregnancy and well-baby visits by Lady Health …-village health services did not improve, underscoring the importance of community enforcement and monitoring capacity for improving …

individuals are differently motivated in that they have different missions, and their self-selection into sectors or organizations … with matching missions enhances organizational efficiency. We test Besley and Ghatak's model using data from a unique … cohort study. We generate two proxies for intrinsic motivations: a survey-based measure of the health professionals …

In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is … instead if their income exceeds the compulsory insurance threshold. Here, premia are based on age and health, individuals may … private insurance coverage on the number of doctor visits, the number of nights spent in a hospital and self-assessed health …

Most developing countries face shortages of health workers in rural areas. This has profound consequences for health … service delivery, and ultimately for health outcomes. To design policies that rectify these geographic imbalances it is vital … to understand what factors determine health workers' choice to work in rural areas. But empirical analysis of health …

The central aim of this text is to show the impact institutions have on the performance of the health sector in … Mozambique. The text shows that of the social determinants of health, institutions play a central role in the performance of the … Mozambican health sector-and, through it, economic and social development-particularly for the poorer and more vulnerable, such …

. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …

deterioration of the health care system, changes in diet and obesity, and material deprivation fail to explain the increase in …