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Demand-side determinants of access to healthcare services: Empirical evidence from Africa
Kabongo, Wa Ntita Serge; Mbonigaba, Josue - In: SPOUDAI - Journal of Economics and Business 67 (2017) 4, pp. 3-22
The problem of low access to health care services in Africa remains challenging to policy makers whave thus far not sufficiently contemplated polices on the demand-side factors. To assist ipolicymaking, the present study identifies the key determinants of access to healthcare in Africa...
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Health care service provision in Europe and regional diversity: A stochastic metafrontier approach
Schley, Katharina - In: Health Economics Review 8 (2018) 11, pp. 1-11
In the last decades, demographic change coupled with new and expensive medical innovations have put most health care systems in developed countries under financial pressure. Therefore, ensuring efficient service provision is essential for a sustainable health care system. This paper investigates...
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Political institutions and health expenditure
Blum, Johannes; Dorn, Florian; Heuer, Axel - In: International Tax and Public Finance 28 (2021) 2, pp. 323-363
We examine how political institutions influence health expenditure by using a panel of 151 developing and developed countries for the years 2000 to 2015 and four measures of democracy. Our pooled OLS analysis shows that democracies have 20–30% higher government health expenditure relative to...
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Verschreibungspflichtige Medikamente: Marktorientierte Regulierung von Festbeträgen wirkt kostendämmend
Ullrich, Hannes - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 14, pp. 308-313
Angesichts einer wachsenden Vielfalt an teuren Behandlungsmöglichkeiten und Medikamenten stellt die ökonomische Nachhaltigkeit eine besondere Herausforderung für Gesundheitssysteme mit universellem Versicherungsschutz dar. Ein bewährtes Mittel zur Kostendämpfung sind Zuzahlungen der...
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Zahl privater Zusatzkrankenversicherungen hat sich verdoppelt
Grabka, Markus M. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 14, pp. 302-307
Given the growing variety of expensive treatments and drugs, economic sustainability is a particular challenge for healthcare systems with universal insurance coverage. Patient co-payment regimes for prescription drugs are a proven means of cost containment worldwide. However, there is little...
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Quantifying the broader economic consequences of quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in Germany applying a government perspective framework
Kotsopoulos, Nikolaos; Connolly, Mark P.; Remy, Vanessa - In: Health Economics Review 5 (2015) 23, pp. 1-11
study was to evaluate the broader economic consequences associated with HPV vaccination in males and females and to conduct … a lifetime cost-benefit analysis of investing in universal vaccination in Germany from the perspective of government … consequences of HPV vaccination including the fiscal impact for the government. A cohort model was developed simulating the medical …
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Changes in labour market transitions in Ireland over the Great Recession: what role for policy?
Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish; McGuinness, Seamus - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 9, pp. 1-18
This paper assesses the impact the Great Recession had on individuals' transitions to and from unemployment in Ireland. The rate of transition from unemployment to employment declined between 2006 and 2011, while the rate from employment to unemployment increased. The results indicate that young...
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The Need for Household Panel Surveys in Times of Crisis: The Case of SOEP-CoV
Kühne, Simon; Kroh, Martin; Liebig, Stefan; Zinn, Sabine - In: Survey Research Methods 14 (2020) 2, pp. 195-203
The spread of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, poses major challenges for individuals and societies at large. The question now is how individuals and society are dealing with these challenges, and what health, psychological, social, and economic effects they will have to bear. Meaningful...
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Diverse pathways in becoming an adult: The role of structure, agency and context
Schoon, Ingrid; Lyons-Amos, Mark - In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 46 (2016), pp. 11-20
Although the transition from education to work has been a topic of much research, there is still lack of understanding regarding experiences of recent cohorts of young people. Moreover, much of the debate has focused on the polarization of youth transitions, at the neglect of a large group of...
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Healthcare consumption after a change in health insurance coverage: A French quasinatural experiment
Sevilla-Dedieu, Christine; Billaudeau, Nathalie; … - In: Health Economics Review 10 (2020) 17, pp. 1-10
Background: Compared with the number of studies performed in the United States, few studies have been conducted on the link between health insurance and healthcare consumption in Europe, likely because most European countries have compulsory national health insurance (NHI) or a national health...
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