the Health Sector Reform Strategy. The last section concludes and provides some policy recommendations. …

information needed by policymakers, investors, and other interested stakeholders. To better understand the current health care …

? Evidence for China for the year 2004, by means of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), shows that health insurance …Does medical insurance affect health care demand and in the end contribute to improvements in the health status … does not affect health care demand in a significant manner. Counterfactuals suggest that full insurance coverage of the …

Several empirical studies provide evidence that their actual health state affects people's attitudes towards health and … medical care in hypothetical health states. In the tradition of behavioural economics this paper considers the actual health … state as a point of reference and builds a model for studying the implications of this phenomenon on health insurance and on …

We estimate the impact on health care utilization and out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures of a major reform in Thailand … that extended health insurance to one-quarter of the population to achieve universal coverage while keeping health spending … health care, while spending at the very top of the OOP distribution was reduced by one-half representing substantial reductio …

and income groups. We utilize the China Health and Nutrition Survey data (CHNS) to provide prolific cross section and … 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 program on improving health care utilization and reducing medical …

Taking into account recent health care reforms in Germany a change of the structure in the provision of HIV health care … health-political and health-economic challenges for HIV health care. As a result challenges for five stakeholder groups could … be identified: health care providers, third party payers, the pharmaceutical industry, health politicians, and patients …

This paper looks into the search behavior of consumers in the market for health insurance contracts. We consider the … recent health insurance reform in The Netherlands, where a private-public mix of insurance provision was replaced by a system … substantial premium dispersion. We develop a simple consumer search model containing the main features of the Dutch health …

measures willingness to pay for health insurance attributes in Germany and the Netherlands. Since the Dutch DCE was carried out … right after the 2006 health reform, which made citizens explicitly choose a health insurance contract, two research … the cost of decision making associated with choice of a health insurance contract. …