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This article focuses on common and different attributes of education and health from economic and social perspective …. Education and health are not usually analyzed together so this could be considered to be an innovative approach. Article … contains knowledge which reflects empirically known dependencies in the area of education and health determinants and …
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The paper argues that the level of public spending on health varies according to the type of political regime in a … public spending on health is decreasing with the level of political freedom. At the same time, public spending on health care … competes with military expenditures. Moreover, public spending on health in neighbouring countries affects the level of public …
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Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the distribution of health … care resources. We take as a working definition of health for our purposes the number of quality adjusted life years that a … synonymous with reducing inequalities in health, we also consider the much richer variety of concepts employed by philosophers …
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populations as well as market imperfections suggest a potential role for public policy in promoting insurance design that slows … spending growth while increasing the health that each dollar buys. …
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We estimate an insurer-specific preference function which rationalizes hospital referrals for privately insured births in California. The function is additively separable in: a hospital price paid by the insurer, the distance traveled, and plan- and severity-specific hospital fixed effects...
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insurance coverage. Medicaid, which provides means-tested public assistance and pays for almost half of long-term care costs … state tax subsidies for private long-term care insurance to determine whether tax subsidies increase private coverage and …
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The public health expenses seem to properly mirror the development level of acountry. The purpose of this paper is to … study the evolution of the public health expenses inthe world and in our country. The efficiency of the public health care …
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This paper studies the mechanism for the equity of payments for using the Colombian health system, defined as the … payment system are studied, as well as a particular case of a homogeneous population. Health services are grouped together …
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little research has investigated the perceptions and attitudes expressed by insurance policyholders. Therefore, to bridge … insurance policyholders in Gauteng. This will inevitably assist insurers to retain more clients as they will have a better … understanding of what influences the risk perception of their insurance policyholders. Exogenous factors relate to external factors …
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public spending on human capital and their correlates in Africa. The study found public spending on health and education in … Africa to be inefficient. Efficiency was much higher in health spending than in educational spending. Factors such as …
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