Amidst growing concerns over heightened natural disaster risks, this study pioneers an inquiry into the causal impacts of cyclones on the demand for private health insurance (PHI) in Australia. We amalgamate a nationally representative longitudinal dataset with historical cyclone records,...

Fear of immigration enforcement may deter undocumented parents from enrolling their US citizen children in public health insurance. This paper examines the effect of providing legal status to parents through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program for health insurance coverage...

Japan’s national hospital system, which consists of a combination of private, national, prefectural and metropolitan hospitals, is the largest employers of the of the doctors. The article provides details on the women doctors’ discontinuous workforce participation in the Japanese hospital...

The national budget affects life and death via its allocations in areas such as traffic safety, flood control, public health and the like. When the cost-effectiveness of an intervention is evaluated, common effect measures are the number of lives extended (saved) and the expected life-years...

An unprecedented crisis in the form of COVID-19 has posed a significant problem to both the lives and livelihood of the people around the world. Economic activities of India are also affected by this pandemic with phase-wise lockdowns, implementation of social distancing measures, global...

These projections show that demographic change will have a significant impact on the dynamism of healthcare expenditure. The effect of an ageing population is most significant in the area of long-term care. For healthcare excluding long-term care, non-demographic cost drivers – such as the...

A key concern of this study is to evaluate the increase in healthcare expenditure as a result of an ageing Swiss population and to highlight the resulting financial burden for the public finances and mandatory basic healthcare insurance. In addition, the study also shows the adjustment levers...

The spread of the novel coronavirus disease caused schools in Japan to close to cope with the pandemic. In response to this, parents of students were obliged to care for their children during the daytime when they were usually at school. Does the increase in burden of childcare influence...

This paper performs a systematic review on whether there is a relationship between health insurance and self-employment. There are three types of findings available regarding this issue in the entrepreneurship literature. First, health insurance clearly plays a vital role when individuals choose...

Social health insurance systems can be designed with different levels of state involvement and varying degrees of redistribution. In this article we focus on citizens’ preferences regarding the design of their health insurance coverage including the extent of redistribution. Using a...