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Economic Efficiency of Public Health Programmes for Control of HIV/AIDS Infections in Anambra State
Okafor, Samuel - 2016
The article focused on cost effectiveness of HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in Nigeria. It was designed as a case study. Data were sourced from the Anambra State Agency for HIV/AIDS prevention in Awka and the centres for HIV/AIDS prevention established by NGOs in 2 Awka, Onitsha, and Nnewi. Data...
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Towards universal social protection : lessons from the Universal Health Coverage Initiative
Rim, Ji-Yeun; Tassot, Caroline - 2019
to universalism in health coverage and takes a close look at equity issues. It concludes with some key takeaways from UHC … mechanically transposed to the USP agenda, a number of lessons can be drawn. Moreover, the benefits in terms of coverage and equity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060843
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Precision medicine and distributive justice : wicked problems for democratic deliberation
Fleck, Leonard M. - 2022
"Wicked ethical problems have been generated by precision medicine due to both the wiliness of cancer and the fragmentation of health care financing in the United States. The wiliness of cancer has resulted in these targeted cancer therapies yielding only very marginal gains in life expectancy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013271373
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In a democracy, what should a healthcare system do? : a dilemma for public policymakers
Oswald, Malcolm - In: Politics, philosophy & economics : ppe 14 (2015) 1, pp. 23-52
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316561
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Chapter 35 Equity in health
Williams, Alan; Cookson, Richard - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1863-1910). 2000
Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the distribution of health … person may expect to enjoy over his or her lifetime. Although we mostly follow the economists' custom of regarding equity as …
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Unmet health care need and income-related horizontal equity in access during the COVID-19 pandemic
Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2020
assess how the UK health care system performed against the norm of horizontal equity in health care access during the first …, there is no evidence that horizontal equity, with respect to income, was violated for NHS hospital outpatient and inpatient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322233
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Unmet health care need and income-related horizontal equity in access during the COVID-19 pandemic
Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2020
assess how the UK health care system performed against the norm of horizontal equity in health care access during the first …, there is no evidence that horizontal equity, with respect to income, was violated for NHS hospital outpatient and inpatient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012320161
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Unmet health care need and income-related horizontal equity in access during the COVID-19 pandemic
Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2020
assess how the UK health care system performed against the norm of horizontal equity in health care access during the first …, there is no evidence that horizontal equity, with respect to income, was violated for NHS hospital outpatient and inpatient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389418
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"Health is gold" : institutional structures and the realities of health access in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Kotsila, Panagiota - 2012
Vietnam has dealt historically with health as a valuable asset, a resource that was distributed in an equal manner to all citizens through the development of a wide and inclusive grassroots health network during the 1970s. Since then, the health system has developed - in parallel to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209950
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Efficiency in health ressource allocation : three empirical studies in Eastern Sub-Sahara Africa and Southeast Asia
Ralaidovy, Ambinintsoa Haritiana - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012489596