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The Distributional Impact of Healthcare Financing in Nigeria : A Case Study of Enugu State
Ichoku, Ementa Hyacinth; Fonta, William - 2007
The deregulation of healthcare financing and supply in Nigeria has shifted the healthcare system towards competitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050764
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Accounting for private health care expenses in measures of nations' redistributive effort
Baird, Katherine - 2018
-government poverty rates climb by three to four percentage points once we account for households’ medical expenses. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011928593
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The Redistributive Effect of Health Care Finance in Palestine : A Decomposition Analysis Approach
Abu-Zaineh, Mohammad; Mataria, Awad; Luchini, Stéphane; … - 2007
This paper applies a new methodology to decompose the overall redistributive effect (RE) of health care finance on income distribution. Contrary to most previous studies, the RE of various financing schemes are disentangled and estimated as sample statistics to reveal the vertical and horizontal...
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A consistent decomposition of the redistributive, vertical, and horizontal effects of health care finance by factor components
Hierro, Luis A.; Gómez-Álvarez, Rosario; Atienza, Pedro - In: Health economics 23 (2014) 1, pp. 117-121
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Chapter 34 Equity in health care finance and delivery
Wagstaff, Adam; van Doorslaer, Eddy - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1803-1862). 2000
The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery. The focus is, for the most part, on empirical work, especially that involving international and temporal comparisons. There is, however, some discussion of the concept and definition of equity. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024171
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Redistributive Effects of the Swedish Health Care Financing System
Gerdtham, Ulf; Sundberg, Gun - 2008
The paper investigates the redistributive effects of the Swedish health care financing system in 1980 and 1990 for four different financial sources: County council taxes, payroll taxes, direct payments and state grants. The redistributive effects are decomposed into vertical, horizontal and...
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Paying 'til it hurts : high medical spending among the poor and elderly in ten developed countries
Baird, Katherine - 2016
This paper measures high medical expenses in ten developed countries, both overall and by income and age, providing some of the best evidence to date on the extent of high medical spending across and within countries. Using comparable household-level data on out-of pocket (OOP) medical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484114
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The Distributional Impact of Healthcare Financing in Nigeria : A Case Study of Enugu State - PMMA-10021
Ichoku, Ementa Hyacinth - 2012
inequality between the rich and the poor in Nigeria has become a major source of national and international concern. This study … of the health care market in the country contribute to income inequalities between the rich and the poor and the poverty … level in Nigeria. For this purpose, the Aronson-Johnson-Lambert (AJL) method of decomposition was used. The data set was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098339
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Catastrophic healthcare financing and poverty : empirical evidence from Nigeria
Ichoku, Hyacinth E.; Fonta, William M. - In: Journal of social and economic development 11 (2009) 2, pp. 1-16
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900324
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Issues in equitable health financing in South Eastern Nigeria : socio-economic and geographic differences in households' illness expenditures and policy makers' views on the financ...
Onwujekwe, Obinna Emmanuel; Onoka, Chima; Uzochukwu, … - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 21 (2009) 2, pp. 185-199
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