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Resources available to the health care sector are finite and typically insufficient to fulfil all the demands for health care in the population. Decisions must be made about which treatments to provide. Relatively little is known about the views of the general public regarding the principles...
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claims to incorporate criteria of distributive justice into the design of copayments. We find that if the government … constrains patient rights to what is medically feasible, equity-based copayments vary from a percentage of the cost of the … patients, then copayments based on equity lead to a relation between copayments and clinical status that diverges from those …
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claims to incorporate criteria of distributive justice into the design of copayments. We find that if the government … constrains patient rights to what is medically feasible, equity-based copayments vary from a percentage of the cost of the … patients, then copayments based on equity lead to a relation between copayments and clinical status that diverges from those …
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Technology Assessment (TA). This paper aims to characterize the equity on access of the Portuguese population in general, to a …
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This paper analyzes inequality in Iran's health system from a financing perspective. Through grouped data of household budget published by Iran Statistic Center (ISC) and Beta Lorenz curve introduced in Kakwani (1980), it has been tried to extract Beta Lorenz curve and Kakwani progressivity...
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The concept of need plays an essential role in defining legitimate health inequalities. The debate on equity in …
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Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing … health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To … modes. Overall, it can be concluded that the health care reforms have not reduced equity in health care financing neither if …
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This paper analyses equity in one of the largest community based health insurance programme in India: Yeshasvini, run …
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This study presents the rst analyses of the equity of health care financing in Iran. Kakwani Progressivity Indices …
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This study examines the impact of health system characteristics on social inequities in health care use in Europe, using data from national surveys in 13 European countries. Multilevel logistic regression models are estimated to separate the individual level determinants of generalist and...
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