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This paper aims at analyzing characteristics of private health insurance (PHI) in low- and middle income countries and evaluating its significance for national health systems. In many countries the importance of PHI to finance health care is on a rise. Various factors contribute to this...
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The complexity of indicator’s system derives from the very complexity of the health concept as defined by the World Health Organization that "Health is that state of good : physical, mental, social and consists not only in the absence of disease or infirmity". The indicators should cover both...
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To investigate stakeholder involvement by Health Technology Assessment Organisations (HTAOs) in France, Spain, England and Wales, Germany, Sweden, and The Netherlands and to examine whether this involvement depends on (i) the administrative tradition and the relevant conception of the...
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The economic transition was harmful all over, but even more harmful for Romania's social landscape. The total population decreased by both birth rate and emigration and the work force follows this trend, the remaining people get older and demographic perspectives are even worse for the following...
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This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...
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Government announced that through this reform it had successfully reduced the number of unemployed by 25% representing around 45 …,000 individuals. However, an evaluation of the impact of this policy reform on labour market outcomes for the severely disabled …
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literature by estimating both switch-on and switch-off effects, because the reform was repealed two years later. We find a two … terms) at higher quantiles, meaning that the reform predominantly reduced long durations of absence. In terms of health, the … reform reduced the average number of days spent in hospital by almost half a day, but we cannot find robust evidence for …
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percent. We show theoretically that the net reform effects on long-term absenteeism can be disentangled into a direct and an …
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Vergütungsreform von Krankenhausleistungen zu beheben. Das Ziel der Reform kann auf dem vorgeschlagenen Weg nicht erreicht werden. … remuneration of hospital services. The articles shows that the goals of the reform cannot be achieved in the proposed way. …
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Das deutsche Gesundheitswesen ist in Kritik geraten, und Forderungen nach einem durchgreifenden Systemwechsel haben derzeit Konjunktur. In seinem Beitrag wendet sich Prof. Dr. Dieter Cassel, Universität Duisburg, allerdings gegen die Aufgabe des geltenden Solidarprinzips: »Soll das...
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