, the demand for health care is expanding rapidly due to population growth and ageing. Also, the country’s wide socio …-economic divides are reflected in differences in health outcomes. To date the health-care system, centred on four health funds, is … accommodating demand for private health care. However, there are challenges and tensions in the system. Currently the authorities …

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 …

The day surgery is a highly effective tool for providing health care which has been used in Slovakia only for the last … decade. The unified system of payment for inpatient or outpatient (day care) surgeries causes the reduction of health …

One of the most influential “lessons” of the moral hazard theory in health economics is that cost sharing can reduce … health spending without damage on health status. This “lesson” has been enormously influential on policy makers. This paper … and increase in health spending. …

Direct out-of-pocket payments for healthcare continue to be a major source of health financing in low-income and middle … represents up to four times the official tariff. Factors related to the following: (i) human resource management of the health … facilities (e.g., task shifting); (ii) health professionals' perceptions vis-à-vis the remunerations of HIV care provision; and …

outcomes. In the health sector, risk classification is also subject to concerns about social equity and potential …