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Vietnam: Learning from Smart Reforms on the Road to Universal Health Coverage
Barroy, Helene; Jarawan, Eva; Bales, Sarah - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Universal Health Coverage is a powerful framework for a nation aiming to protect their population against health risks. However, countries face multiple challenges in implementing, achieving and sustaining UHC strategies. Sharing and learning from diverse country experiences may enable to foster...
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What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy: A Primer
Hsiao, William C. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need in situations where they must address issues concerning health sector policy and when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity and growth and are fundamental to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825737
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The Macroeconomic Impact of Healthcare Financing Alternatives; Reform Options forhong Kong Sar
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
With much healthcare publicly funded, Hong Kong's rapidly aging population will significant raise fiscal pressure over coming decades. We ask what the implications are of meeting these costs by public funding, or private funding voluntarily or through mandates. Our simulations suggest that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825995
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The Macroeconomic Impact of HIV/AIDS in Botswana
Sgherri, Silvia; MacFarlan, Maitland - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
This paper provides an overview of the potential macroeconomic effects of HIV/AIDS in Botswana, focusing on the key channels through which the pandemic is likely to affect the economic outlook and on the uncertainties involved. To estimate the impact of HIV/AIDS, a dual-economy equilibrium model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826153
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What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy?
Heller, Peter S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need to address issues concerning health sector policy, particularly when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity and growth and are fundamental to any strategy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599256
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Is Asia Prepared for An Aging Population?
Heller, Peter S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
Many Asian countries (such as China, Singapore, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, and the Philippines) will experience a significant aging of their populations during the next several decades. This paper explores how these aging Asian countries are addressing and anticipating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248253
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Unconditional Demand for Health Care in Cote d'Ivoire. Does Selection on Health Status Matter?
Dow, W.H. - World Bank Group - 1996
Health care demand price elasticies are often estimated from samples conditioned to include only sike people. This …
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Mit maerkischen Innovationen die ambulante Versorgung gestalten
Helming, Hans-Joachim - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 63 (2014) 3, pp. 282-292
, the practicing physicians tend to be older and young doctors are becoming less willing to settle in their own surgery. To … cope with these challenges the Regional Associations of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Brandenburg …
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Aerztemangel im laendlichen Raum – Neue Anreizstrukturen und innovative Versorgungsmodelle als Ausweg? Zur Bedeutung einer patientenorientierten Steuerung
Zerth, Jürgen - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 63 (2014) 3, pp. 269-281
In Germany there is an ongoing debate on the adequate distribution of physicians that are obliged to guarantee the …. From a health economics point of view it has to be discussed which role physicians have to play within different forms of … organizing care and cure. In the paper, a standardized utility function that depicts physicians’ interest helps to figure out the …
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Rahmenbedingungen fuer eine effektive Versorgungssteuerung in Stadt und Land
Greß, Stefan; Stegmüller, Klaus - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 63 (2014) 3, pp. 259-268
General practitioner (GP) care in Germany is characterized by a disparate distribution of GPs. There is considerable oversupply in many urban areas while there is undersupply in many rural regions. Centralized planning of GP capacities so far has not been able to ameliorate this unequal...
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