Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing … health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To … modes. Overall, it can be concluded that the health care reforms have not reduced equity in health care financing neither if …

of Italian Regions in governing their health care systems. As a result of the model, we obtain a measure of the efficient … offering health care provisions to their citizens. …

The paper is concerned with the efficient organization of contractual relationships between health insurers and … health care system. The focus lies on an ex ante alignment of incentive structures as well as on an efficient handling of … to the American health care system provides the reader with the necessary background. A discussion of results completes …

Within the debate about the rise of costs in the German health system, the argument has put forth that patients …

-term economic growth, educational development, and health care outcomes. To better understand whether the relationship is causal, we … 2000, we find that although improvements in education and health care outcomes account for a sizable portion of the total …

The aim of this article is to analyze the impact of the decentralization of the public national health system in Spain … on citizens’ satisfaction with different dimensions of primary and hospital care. Using micro-data from the Health …, in general, decentralization has not improved citizens’ satisfaction with different features of the health services. In …

The main objectives of this paper are to review policies on health services and to provide an assessment of public … health facilities and the access of people to health care services in Vietnam. Medical facilities and staffs in public … establishments have been increasing. Health insurance has been expanded rapidly in the recent years. It is very encouraging that the …