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Haacker, Markus - 2011

The costs of HIV/AIDS programs are significant from a macroeconomic or fiscal perspective in a number of countries. Assessing the fiscal implications is complicated by the long lags between infection and the need for HIV/AIDS-related services, and the long duration over which these services...

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Low birth weight and health expenditures from birth to late adolescence

Hummer, Michael; Lehner, Thomas; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2012

Using administrative panel data of health insurants, we estimate the effects of low birth weight on health service utilization among children and young adults between birth and 21 years old. To account for time-invariant heterogeneity of mothers, we use sibling fixed- effects estimation. We find...

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How Are Government Hospitals Performing? A Study of Resource Management in DOH-retained Hospitals

Lavado, Rouselle F.; Sanglay-Dunleavy, Abigail Barbara; … - 2010

The paper attempts to provide an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines with particular emphasis on hospitals being managed by the DOH. The paper begins with an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines, describing the size, location, and utilization of hospital services. To...

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Dimensões do acesso a medicamentos no Brasil: Perfil e desigualdades dos gastos das famílias, segundo as pesquisas de orçamentos familiares 2002-2003 e 2008-2009

Garcia, Leila Posenato; de Magalhães, Luís Carlos Garcia - 2013

Access to medicines in Brazil can be studied using different analytical approaches. One of these approaches is the household spending on medicines, whose weight over the income of the Brazilian families is widely known. The study aims to describe the spending on medicines of the Brazilian...

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Assessing the Effectiveness of Health Care Cost Containment Measures

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2011

Using SOEP panel data and difference-in-differences methods, this study is the first to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of four different health care cost containment measures within an integrated framework. The four measures investigated were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral...

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Health, inequality and income: A global study using simultaneous model

Ray, Devdatta; Linden, Mikael - In: Journal of Economic Structures 7 (2018) 22, pp. 1-28

A simultaneous three-equation model is specified between GDP per capita (GDPc) level, infant mortality rate and health … mortality rate and increasing GDPc level effects are found in sample with three income level country groups. Health expenditures … in income inequality measured with GINI coefficient increases infant mortality rate in non-poor countries. We test for …

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Evolução do gasto com medicamentos do sistema único de saúde no período de 2010 a 2016

Vieira, Fabiola Sulpino - 2018

The objective of this text is to present and address the spending on medicines of the Brazilian Public Health System (SUS) from 2010 to 2016 in a budgetary perspective. The analysis was based on the budget execution of the Ministry of Health and the health departments of the states, the Federal...

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Evaluation of the Potentials of Private Insurance Industry as a Source of Health Care Finance in the Philippines

Health, Education and Welfare Specialists, Inc. - 1995

This paper investigates the significant contribution of private health insurance to the Philippine health care finance. It also determines ways of its promotion and regulation. In addition, it identifies the areas where its services are the most concentrated, identifies its targeted...

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Patterns of Health Care Expenditures, Utilization and Demand for Medical Care in Sample Philippine Households

Bautista, Cristina M. - 1995

Due to tight fiscal budget, health care planners have started to explore alternative financing mechanisms. These alternatives can be effectively implemented given thorough understanding of mechanisms that direct household demand for health care. This paper investigates the factors of households'...

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Financing eHealth: Tsuji – Akematsu model revisited

Abu Taher, Sheikh; Uddin, Md. Kamal; Tsuji, Masatsugu - 2018

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays an essential role in the provision of health care system, especially for the rapidly increasing ageing population all over the world. In line with this, eHealth helps a significant role in the overall management of this data in terms of...

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