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 …

Abstract Medical bankruptcy was at the heart of the health care reform debate. According to Himmelstein et al. (2009 … of Americans had no health insurance. The 2010 health care reform was designed to address the lack of health coverage and … incomplete markets to quantitatively evaluate the impact of the health care reform on the health insurance market and the …

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 …

India’s health care and health financing provision is characterized by too little Government spending on health, meager … health insurance coverage, declining public health care use contrasted by highest levels of private out-of-pocket health … framework of health insurance and health care revisits the existing health insurance schemes and assesses the health insurance …

In this paper, we present a less-explored channel through which health insurance impacts productivity: by offering … health insurance, employers reduce the expected time workers spend out of work in sick days. Using data from the Medical … Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), we show that a worker with health coverage misses on average 52% fewer workdays than uninsured …

culture and religion merely reflect the latter? We explore this issue by studying the case of Protestantism in China during …-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 …

comes from the Physical Examination in China Health and Nutrition Survey. To an extent we confirm the results with respect … based on the ratio of height to weight, linked to health, using a four-year (1991, 1993, 1997 and 2000) panel data set which … range based on self-reported health. We also find that variables such as income can modify the impact of an adverse BMI on …

We examine whether and to what extent the health insurance system in Turkey provided adequate protection against high … out of pocket expenditures in the period prior to “The Health Transformation Programme” (HTP) for the non elderly … population. We measure health care burdens as the share of out of pocket health care expenditures within family income. We define …

Introducing compulsory health insurance for government employees bears immense importance for stepping towards …, motivates this paper. The study aims at designing a comprehensive insurance package simultaneously covering health, life and … accident related disability risks of the public employees, where the health component would extend to all dependent family …

The efficiency of Turkish health system, which was restructured by the health transformation framework, depends on the … mutual compliance of both health service providers and demanders. The future and success of the new health system may be … health services. This study analitically evaluates the new health system structured by the transformation of health during …