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Premium Subsidies and Social Insurance: Substitutes or Complements?
Kifmann, Mathias; Roeder, Kerstin - Institut für Management im Gesundheitswesen und …
Premium subsidies have been advocated as an alternative to social health insurance. These subsidies are paid if expenditure on health insurance exceeds a given share of income. In this paper, we examine whether this approach is superior to social insurance from a welfare perspective. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319378
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Prescription drug coverage among elderly and disabled Americans: can Medicare—Part D reduce inequities in access?
Kanavos, Panos; Gemmill-Toyama, Marin - In: International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 10 (2010) 3, pp. 203-218
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008673737
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The Evolution of Inequity in Access to Health Care in Spain
García Gómez, García Gómez Pilar; López Nicolás, … - Fundación BBVA - 2007
This working paper reports an analysis of the evolution of equity in access to health care in Spain over the period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683551
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What Do You Mean?: Conceptual Clarity in Social Policy
Magnoli, Alessandro - Inter-American Development Bank
Efficiency and equity are priorities in the social policies of both industrial and developing countries. This study … examines how different value judgments lead to different concepts of efficiency and equity and demonstrates that conceptual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772336
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Premium subsidies and social health insurance: Substitutes or complements?
Kifmann, Mathias; Roeder, Kerstin - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1207-1218
Premium subsidies have been advocated as an alternative to social health insurance. These subsidies are paid if expenditure on health insurance exceeds a given share of income. In this paper, we examine whether this approach is superior to social health insurance from a welfare perspective. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010573753
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What Do You Mean?: Conceptual Clarity in Social Policy
Magnoli, Alessandro - Inter-American Development Bank
Efficiency and equity are priorities in the social policies of both industrial and developing countries. This study … examines how different value judgments lead to different concepts of efficiency and equity and demonstrates that conceptual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943384
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Premium subsidies and social insurance: Substitutes or complements?
Kifmann, Mathias; Roeder, Kerstin - Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE), … - 2011
Premium subsidies have been advocated as an alternative to social health insurance. These subsidies are paid if expenditure on health insurance exceeds a given share of income. In this paper, we examine whether this approach is superior to social insurance from a welfare perspective. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957052
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The National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana's Upper West Region: A gendered perspective of insurance acquisition in a resource-poor setting
Dixon, Jenna; Luginaah, Isaac; Mkandawire, Paul - In: Social Science & Medicine 122 (2014) C, pp. 103-112
accessing the NHIS, and raised serious equity concerns in the UWR. By focussing on the context of the UWR, we show the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076638
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Health Outcome Inequities and the Health System: A Case Study of Egypt
Zaky, Hassan H.M.; Abdel-Mowla, Somaya Ahmed Aly - In: Research in World Economy 2 (2011) 2, pp. 71-86
provide evidence for policy actions and for promoting health equity. This paper aims to support the development of a data base …, process and outcome indicators. A framework for the health system indicators is used as well as equity measures are applied to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011267391
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Premium subsidies and social insurance: Substitutes or complements?
Kifmann, Mathias; Roeder, Kerstin - 2011
Premium subsidies have been advocated as an alternative to social health insurance. These subsidies are paid if expenditure on health insurance exceeds a given share of income. In this paper, we examine whether this approach is superior to social insurance from a welfare perspective. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310627