guarantee access to a broad package of health services. However, healthcare financing involves varying distributive effects and … financing which involve ex-ante redistribution of health risks from those which entail only ex-post redistribution or none at …-world. First of all, new and costly medical technologies drive the demand for ex-ante redistribution of health risks. At the same …

social insurance system into a national health service. In order to address these changes in a systematic way, we track …

healthcare system types: National Health Service, social health insurance system, and private health insurance system … relatively mixed Dutch social health insurance system. In order to approach this research question in a systematic way, we … institutional framework of a social health insurance system. This ongoing reform process towards a welfare market for medical goods …

Faith-inspired institutions (FIIs) commonly have as their stated mission a desire to provide quality health services to … services more affordable. However, it suggests that in current African health contexts, FIIs may no longer be that different …

health care and Rajiv Aryogyasri (RAS), a health insurance scheme to cover the catastrophic health expenditure of BPL …

In China, Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs) are a major tool financing health care consumption in urban areas. Whether …

This chapter aims to quantify and compare inequalities of opportunity in health across European countries considering … opportunity stand for almost 50% of the health inequality due to circumstances and efforts in Barry scenario and 57.5% in Roemer … scenario. The comparison of the magnitude of inequalities of opportunity in health across European countries shows considerable …

Purpose: This paper aims to quantify inequalities of opportunities in health in Europe and to assess whether the way … the correlation between effort towards health and circumstances empirically matters for the magnitude of inequalities of … opportunities in health within Europe. This paper uses the Retrospective Survey of SHARELIFE focusing on life histories of European …

to ICT for health, directly supports the objectives of the Digital Agenda in the area of eHealth which are to both cope … with societal challenges and create opportunities for innovation and economic growth by reducing health inequalities … of the health status and quality of life of Europeans, especially older people; - An improvement of the sustainability …

comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health products in … Northern Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either for free or …