Regulation fostering Managed Care alternatives in health insurance is spreading. This work reports on an experiment …-Care type restrictions in the provision of health care. It finds that restrictions on the freedom of physician choice would … social health insurance. -- health insurance ; health care ; regulation ; preference measurement ; discrete choice …

We identify whether remittances facilitate consumption smoothing during health shocks in Jamaica. In addition, we … interacts with formal health insurance, and whether there are differential effects by gender of the household head. We find that … remittances offer complete insurance toward decreased consumption during health shocks and that moral hazard is weak. The role of …

rural-urban migration and health in Thailand. Measured by Physical and Mental Component Summary Scales from the Short Form … (SF-36) Health Survey, the physical and mental health of respondents was assessed and tracked over this five-year period … in Thailand depended on the individualś health. The likelihood of migrating from a rural origin to an urban destination …