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Social capital and access to primary health care in developing countries : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Hollard, Guillaume; Sene, Omar - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300955
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Global health care infrastructure and Africa in times of Covid-19 : insights for sustainable development and future pandemics
Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice - 2020
This exploratory study aims to assess Africa's lagging position in global heath in relation to some health care … infrastructure before critically examining the situation of Africa in the light of pressing Covid-19 healthcare infrastructural needs … analysis is provided to showcase which regions are leading in the health facilities in the world in general and Africa in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301756
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Healthcare reform in Greece : progress and reform priorities
Kalavrezou, Niki; Jin, Hui - 2021
We review Greek public sector healthcare policies and health-related outcomes since 2010.We find that excess spending was successfully curtailed, elements of the institutional framework were modernized, and health outcomes have been relatively favorable. However, especially prior to Covid-19,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605603
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Welfare state and life satisfaction : evidence from public health care
Laamanen, Jani-Petri; Kotakorpi, Kaisa - 2007
We examine the effect of publicly provided health care on welfare by combining local level data on public health care, and individual level data on life satisfaction. It is shown that relatively high expenditures in health care have a positive effect on individuals' life satisfaction in our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372994
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How confidence in health care systems affects mobility and compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic
Chan, Ho Fai; Brumpton, Martin; Macintyre, Alison; … - 2020
Trust in the health care system requires being confident that sufficient and appropriate treatments will be provided if needed. The COVID-19 public health crisis is a significant, global, and (mostly) simultaneous test of the behavioral implications arising from this trust. We explore whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242050
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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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Costly efficiencies: health care spending, COVID-19, and the public/private health care debate
Mouré, Christopher - 2021
The debate around public versus private health care often turns on cost - that is, on how to reduce costs, and particularly government expenditures, when it comes to health care. This paper examines the theoretical and empirical relationship between health costs and health outcomes in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012744681
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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
Using monthly data from the Understanding Society (UKHLS) COVID-19 Survey we analyse the evolution of unmet need and assess how the UK health care system performed against the norm of horizontal equity in health care access during the first wave of COVID-19 wave. Unmet need was most evident for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389418
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Public health interventions in the face of pandemics : network structure, social distancing, and heterogeneity
Ghaderi, Mohammad - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317112
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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
Using monthly data from the Understanding Society (UKHLS) COVID-19 Survey we analyse the evolution of unmet need and assess how the UK health care system performed against the norm of horizontal equity in health care access during the first wave of COVID-19 wave. Unmet need was most evident for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012320161