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Universal health insurance under a dual system, evidence of adverse selection against the public sector: the case of Chile
Bronfman, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper examines health insurance choice and its dynamics using panel data from Chile’s National Socio Economic Characterization Survey 1996-2001-2006. Evidence indicates that private insurance is losing customers to the public sector. Two different logistic models are used to explain the...
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Restraining High and Rising Cancer Drug Prices: Need for Accelerating R&D Productivity and Aligning Prices with Value
Bhardwaj, Ramesh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
ABSTRACT The high price of cancer drugs has become a world-wide phenomenon. In recent decades, studies have produced ample evidence of rising research and clinical testing costs underlying pharmaceutical innovations. There is a general concurrence that the current model of drug development needs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011250913
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Rising Mortality Rate in Andhra Pradesh: Towards a demystification
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana; Mishra, Uday Shankar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This is an effort at explaining the reasons and rationale behind the rising mortality rate (CDR) in the South Indian State – Andhra Pradesh. Although the state’s performance in socio-economic sphere seems to be not that impressive, its performance in demographic transition during the last...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261013
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How do supply-side factors influence informal payments for healthcare? The case of HIV patients in Cameroon
Kankeu Tchewonpi, Hyacinthe; Boyer, Sylvie; Fodjo … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
occurrence of informal payments while accounting for the demand-side factors. The study relies on data taken from a nationally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110647
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Un Test sulle Ipotesi delle Proiezioni a Medio-Lungo Termine della Spesa Farmaceutica
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We use the same methodology, that Ecofin-Oecd apply for projecting expenditure in the medium-long term, to reconstruct expenditure in the medium-long past. It is possible to compare the effective expenditure with the reconstructed one. The effective expenditure is of course influenced by policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114476
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Health insurance and health care in India: a supply-demand perspective
Perianayagam, Arokiasamy; Goli, Srinivas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
-06. Theoretical exploration of the axis of supply-demand determinants unfolds that a complex of factors such as sparse health … financing options, self-obstructing heavily risk protected insurance market and weak consumer demand contribute to the measly … education status. The complex axis of critical supply side imperfections and considerable demand side weaknesses necessitate a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257944
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Health Insurance, Fertility, and the Wantedness of Pregnancies: Evidence from Massachusetts
Apostolova-Mihaylova, Maria; Yelowitz, Aaron - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Health insurance reform in Massachusetts lowered the financial cost of both pregnancy (by increased coverage of pregnancy-related medical events) and pregnancy prevention (by increasing access to reliable contraception and family planning). We examine fertility responses for women of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118541
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Partnerships for Women's Health - Striving for Best Practice within the UN Global Compact / United Nations University Research Brief 1/2009 (www.unu.edu)
Timmermann, Martina; Kruesmann, Monika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy and childbirth complications; a further 20 suffer injury, infection or disease. Despite medical advances, and years of policy declarations, this tragic situation remains particularly severe in developing countries, violating a fundamental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008566435
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Health Insurance Choice, Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection: A Study of the Chilean Case Using Panel Data
Bronfman, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Using panel data from Chile’s National Socio Economic Characterization Survey 1996-2001- 2006, this article examines health insurance choice and its dynamics. The article takes advantage of the panel data to examine the dynamics and determinants of insurance change. Evidence indicates that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212960
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Social health insurance improves women’s healthcare use: Evidence from Indonesia
Samarakoon, Shanika; Parinduri, Rasyad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
To improve the poor’s access to healthcare services, the Indonesian government introduced Askeskin, a subsidized social health insurance for the poor. We examine the effects of this social health insurance on women’s use of healthcare—maternal, preventive, and curative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124295