Many international institutions, including the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), have recommended … that countries adopt universal health care coverage, believing that adequate health care is a basic human right. Thailand … with implementing universal health coverage. One of the primary problems is the financial stress of public hospitals due to …

We study the effects of losing insurance on behavioral health - mental health and substance use disorder (SUD …) - community hospitalizations. We leverage variation in public insurance eligibility offered by a large-scale Medicaid … disenrollment. Losing insurance decreased SUD-related hospitalizations but mental illness hospitalizations were unchanged. Use of …

This chapter summarizes the recent economic literature on health and long-term care as it relates to population aging … for long-term care. Both the supply side and the demand side of the health care markets are undergoing change. This …-term care, primarily among the elderly. It also reviews the main features and problems with insurance markets and quality of …

from a societal perspective: ex ante moral hazard from health insurance, externalities from vaccinations, lack of consumer … periodic health examinations to private health lifestyle decisions such as regular exercise and non-smoking. The aim of this … prevention means, the chapter reviews some basic theoretical insights about prevention from human capital models and insurance …

patient especially when the patient doesn’t have a health insurance or when the treatment cost exceeds the sum insured limit … of a health policy. A novel insurance plan – “Medical Complication Insurance (MCI)” based on a unique Sandesh Triple … implemented as a sole policy or as addition to a regular health insurance. It can be comprehensively extended to all doctors …

The reliability of general self-rated health status is examined using the reform of the public health insurance system … examined using the reform of the public health insurance system of Germany in 2004 as a source of exogenous variation. Among … causal impact of the program on self-assessed health and hence reveals the sensitivity of this subjective measure to a …

The reliability of general self-rated health status is examined using the reform of the public health insurance system … causal impact of the program on self-assessed health and hence reveals the sensitivity of this subjective measure to a … perturbation in the insurance system. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, the results indicate that after the policy …

In this paper we investigate whether the presence of private insurance leads to improved health status. Using the RAND … entry into Medicare. Estimation addresses endogeneity of the insurance participation decision in health outcomes regressions … treatment effects (for health status). Insurance participation and health behaviors enter with a lag to allow their effects to …

The reliability of general self-rated health status is examined using the reform of the public health insurance system … causal impact of the program on self-assessed health and hence reveals the sensitivity of this subjective measure to a … perturbation in the insurance system. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, the results indicate that after the policy …

Despite the potential role of a mother’s health insurance coverage in enhancing her children’s health and well … insurance subscription and child malnutrition using data extracted from the Demographic and Health Surveys program across 32 sub …-scores and weight-for-age z-scores, respectively. After addressing endogeneity, we found that mothers’ health insurance …