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Like other countries seeking a progressive path to universalism, Peru has attempted to reduce inequalities in access to healthcare by granting the poor entitlement to tax-financed basic care without charge. We identify the impact of this policy by comparing the target populationś change in...
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compensating providers for lost revenue. We use the geographic spread of HEFs in Cambodia to identify their impact on out …
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and compensating providers for lost revenue. We use the geographic spread of HEFs in Cambodia to identify their impact on …
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compensating providers for lost revenue. We use the geographic spread of HEFs over time in Cambodia to identify their impact on out … operated scheme also reduces household OOP payments but the effect is not as well targeted on the poor. Both compensation … models raise household non-medical consumption but have no impact on health-related debt. HEFs reduce the probability of …
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This paper examines the relationship between public financial management (PFM), the financing of health interventions, and health outcomes. Specifically, the paper econometrically tests whether the effect of PFM on under-five (U5) mortality depends on the relevance of public sector health...
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We consider an economy where most of the health care is publicly provided,and where there is waiting time for several types of treatments. Privatehealth care without waiting time is an option for the patients in the publichealth queue. We show that although patients with low waiting costs...
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This paper compares health care systems. It looks beyond normal academic, political, or journalistic rhetoric, by exactly sticking to facts, i.e. empirical data (in particular data provided by the WHO) and comprehensive case study analyses. The paper finds that a number of myths and common...
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Like other countries seeking a progressive path to universalism, Peru has attempted to reduce inequalities in access to healthcare by granting the poor entitlement to tax-financed basic care without charge. We identify the impact of this policy by comparing the target population's change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996308
The present study describes and explains the changing role of the state in the Italian healthcare system since the beginning of the 1970s, with a particular focus on developments following 1978 when the healthcare system was transformed from a social insurance system into a national health...
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