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Determinants of prepaid systems of healthcare financing : a worldwide country-level perspective
Leiter, Andrea M.; Theurl, Engelbert - 2019
In this paper we examine determinants of prepaid modes of health care financing in a worldwide cross-country perspective. We use three different indicators to capture the role of prepaid modes in health care financing: (i) the share of total prepaid financing as percent of total current health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025834
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Income inequality and health : new evidence from panel data
Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2011
This paper argues that previous cross-country (panel) studies on the relationship between income inequality and health suffer from significant biases due to (i) omitted country-specific factors, (ii) endogeneity, and (iii) cross-country heterogeneity in the impact of inequality on health. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310846
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Income inequality and health : evidence from developed and developing countries
Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2015
We assess the effect of income inequality on life expectancy by performing separate estimations for developed and developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer countries than for health in poorer countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478521
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Income inequality and health : evidence from developed and developing countries
Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2014
We assess the effect of income inequality on life expectancy by performing separate estimations for developed and developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer countries than for health in poorer countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010425987
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Income inequality and health : evidence from developed and developing countries
Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2014
We assess the effect of income inequality on life expectancy by performing separate estimations for developed and developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer countries than for health in poorer countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344097
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Macroeconomic disasters and forward-looking consumers : historical evidence and evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic
Pozzi, Lorenzo; Sadaba, Barbara - 2021
Macroeconomic disasters (wars, pandemics, depressions) are characterized by drastic shifts and increased volatility of the aggregate consumption to income ratio. By standard intertemporal budget constraint logic, this ratio is linked to expectations of future income and consumption growth rates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012511037
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The Covid-19 Pandemic Puts Us in Front of the Vexata Quaestio : Health is a Right or a Privilege?
Costagliola, Ciro; strianese, diego; Di benedetto, Rita; … - 2020
Coronavirus crisis has shown the importance of public healthcare systems, emphasizing the need to strengthen them. In … a fragmented healthcare system have been highlighted, as well as the different operating arrangements existing among the …. Healthcare in Italy, as in the rest of the world, should respond to the logic of care, rather than follow the logic of the market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014098938
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Rapidly Attaining Global Health Mandates in Africa : A Case for Innovative Private Partnership Approaches with International Agencies
Oluwajebe, Olusegun - 2023
sector in most countries already plays a leading role in the provision and financing of healthcare especially for the poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357934
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Air pollution and mobility, what carries COVID-19?
Rodríguez-Caballero, Carlos Vladimir; Vera-Valdés, J. … - In: Econometrics : open access journal 9 (2021) 4, pp. 1-17
This paper tests if air pollution serves as a carrier for SARS-CoV-2 by measuring the effect of daily exposure to air pollution on its spread by panel data models that incorporates a possible commonality between municipalities. We show that the contemporary exposure to particle matter is not the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012642441
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Health Experts Consider a Post-ACA World
Blakely, Stephen - 2017
the structure of health care and health insurance in America -- and consequently on patients and health-care providers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962076