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Lessons for Health Care Policy in the United States : Comparing Health Care Systems
Aspalter, Christian - 2012
This paper compares health care systems. It looks beyond normal academic, political, or journalistic rhetoric, by exactly sticking to facts, i.e. empirical data (in particular data provided by the WHO) and comprehensive case study analyses. The paper finds that a number of myths and common...
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The Prices in the Crises : What We Are Learning from Twenty Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Das, Jishnu; Đỗ-Quý-Toàn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition. First, health insurance would boost...
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Social Health Insurance as a Complementary Financing Mechanism for Universal Health Coverage in India
Kalita, Anuska - 2015
additional funds, can play in financing health services in India. It formulates an SHI concept and its aims for India and … they offer for India and suggests a suitable design for India. It then estimates the volumes of tax revenues and payroll … contributions that may be obtainable by India through SHI. Towards the end it also outlines some of the important design elements …
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Progressive universalism? : the impact of targeted coverage on healthcare access and expenditures in Peru
Neelsen, Sven; O'Donnell, Owen - 2016
Like other countries seeking a progressive path to universalism, Peru has attempted to reduce inequalities in access to healthcare by granting the poor entitlement to tax-financed basic care without charge. We identify the impact of this policy by comparing the target populationś change in...
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Healthcare expenditures vs. health of the population
Miszczyńska, Katarzyna - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 9 (2013) 2, pp. 47-56
Healthcare tends to play a crucial role in every country and its society. Appropriate and well-performing healthcare systems constitute an important aspect of national policy. The most important issue connected with this matter is the appropriate adjustment of the health financing system. That...
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Evaluation of selected indicators of health care in the context of health care systems : case of 27 European Union countries
Halásková, Renata; Bednář, Pavel - In: Scientific papers of the University of Pardubice 29 (2021) 3, pp. 1-14
Healthcare in European countries is provided through different systems run at national levels. The aim of the article is to evaluate selected health care indicators in EU countries, while accentuating similarities and differences between the EU countries in the context of health care systems....
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Improving China's Health Care System
Herd, Richard - 2010
Overall, health outcomes in China have improved tremendously over the past three decades, especially thanks to the reduction in some traditional infectious diseases. However, death rates from chronic diseases have been on the rise, not least owing to changes in life styles and deteriorating...
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The Electoral Politics of Complex Healthcare Systems
Batinti, Alberto - 2016
OECD countries have used a variety of mechanisms for subsidizing healthcare for more than a century. This paper demonstrates that an electoral model of healthcare policies can explain why various combinations of healthcare programs have been adopted and why they are modified through time. The...
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The Electoral Politics of Complex Healthcare Systems
Congleton, Roger D.; Pietrantonio, Rinaldo - 2013
OECD countries have used a variety of mechanisms for subsidizing healthcare for more than a century. These include tax preferences, direct subsidies, mandated health insurance programs, government-financed single-payer systems, and direct provision of healthcare services. In most cases,...
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Public health care with waiting time : the role of supplementary private health care
Hoel, Michael; Sæther, Erik Magnus - 2001
We consider an economy where most of the health care is publicly provided,and where there is waiting time for several types of treatments. Privatehealth care without waiting time is an option for the patients in the publichealth queue. We show that although patients with low waiting costs...
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