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Ressourcen und Ergebnisse der globalen Gesundheitsökonomie: Einführung und Überblick
Stolpe, Michael - 2003
Entwicklungen in Deutschland, Großbritannien und den USA vorgestellt. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273160
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The New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) and its implications for access to health care and medical expenditure: Evidence from rural China
Liu, Dan; Tsegai, Daniel - 2011
The New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) program was implemented in response to illness-led poverty and poor state of healthcare in rural China. Supported by government subsidy, more and more poor rural households are now enrolled in the NCMS. This paper investigates the impact of the NCMS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323664
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Development of scenarios for health expenditure in the new EU member states: Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia
Golinowska, Stanisława; Kocot, Ewa; Sowa, Agnieszka - 2008
The report is a result of the Ageing, Health Status and Determinants of Health Expenditure (AHEAD) project within the EC 6th Framework programme. The objective of the research was to present the model of future health care system revenues and expenditures in selected Central and Eastern European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326573
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Verpaßte Gesundheit - Herausbildung und Wirkungsweisen präventiver Maßnahmen der Kassen
Hauß, Friedrich - In: Krankenkassen und Prävention, (pp. 229-246). 1985
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011384695
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Monopolistic Competition and Costs in the Health Care Sector
Kumpmann, Ingmar - 2009
Gesundheitswesen diskutiert. In diesem Papier wird argumentiert, dass er diese Funktion möglicherweise nicht erfüllt, wenn die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271400
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The Theory of the Demand for Health Insurance
Nyman, John A. - 2001
Conventional theory holds that moral hazard - the additional health care purchased as a result of becoming insured - is an opportunistic price response and is welfare-decreasing because the value of the additional health care purchased is less than its costs. The theory of the demand for health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263363
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Managed care: Medizin zwischen kommerzieller Bürokratie und integrierter Versorgung. Am Beispiel USA
Kühn, Hagen - 1997
Was hierzulande derzeit unter der Bezeichnung Managed Care aus den USA bekannt wurde, steht ohne Übertreibung für die … Unwälzung des Systems der medizinischen Versorgung in den USA. Gemeint ist damit ein äußerst rasant vorangehender Prozeß, in dem … Finanzierungs- bzw. Versicherungsseite gesteuert werden. Im Reformdiskurs um das deutsche Gesundheitswesen erhalten Konzepte mit dem …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304944
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The rise in obesity across the Atlantic: an economic perspective
Brunello, Giorgio; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; … - 2008
We provide comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and analyse whether there are economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency considerations, which are organized around three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268706
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The impact of the macroeconomy on health insurance coverage: Evidence from the great recession
Cawley, John; Moriya, Asako S.; Simon, Kosali - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of the macroeconomy on the health insurance coverage of Americans using panel data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) for 2004-2010, a period that includes the Great Recession of 2007-09. We find that a one percentage point increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282427
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The problem of the uninsured
Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong - 2012
The problem of the uninsured - those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies - cannot be fully understood without considering informal alternatives to market insurance called self-insurance and self-protection, including the publicly and charitably-financed safety-net health care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290005