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The Aftermath of the Economic Crisis: Healthcare Systems' Inequalities in Europe
Palasca, Silvia; Enea, Sebastian - In: CES Working Papers 6 (2014) 4, pp. 75-91
some European countries’ healthcare systems in order to highlight the link between the breakdown of the economic context …-of-pocket health expenses as an estimation of a nation’s wellbeing and healthcare development level. The cross-time results indicated a … clear collapse of all national healthcare systems in 2009 while the cross-section effects implied that the twenty three …
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State-Level Healthcare Spending and Health Outcomes : An Application of Spatial Durbin Panel Approach to Mortality
Bose, Srimoyee - 2015
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Determinants of prepaid systems of healthcare financing: A worldwide country-level perspective
Leiter, Andrea M.; Theurl, Engelbert - 2019
In this paper we examine determinants of prepaid modes of health care financing in a worldwide cross-country perspective. We use three different indicators to capture the role of prepaid modes in health care financing: (i) the share of total prepaid financing as percent of total current health...
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Determinants of prepaid systems of healthcare financing : a worldwide country-level perspective
Leiter, Andrea M.; Theurl, Engelbert - 2019
In this paper we examine determinants of prepaid modes of health care financing in a worldwide cross-country perspective. We use three different indicators to capture the role of prepaid modes in health care financing: (i) the share of total prepaid financing as percent of total current health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025834
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The value of socialized medicine : the impact of universal primary healthcare provision on birth and mortality rates in Turkey
Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pınar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; … - 2015
This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … physician, who offers a wide range of primary healthcare services that are free-of-charge. Furthermore, these services are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337077
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The Value of Socialized Medicine: The Impact of Universal Primary Healthcare Provision on Birth and Mortality Rates in Turkey
Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pınar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; … - 2015
This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … physician, who offers a wide range of primary healthcare services that are free-of-charge. Furthermore, these services are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345385
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Did the ACA Medicaid Expansion Save Lives?
Borgschulte, Mark; Vogler, Jacob - 2019
We estimate the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on county-level mortality in the first four years following expansion. We find a reduction in all-cause mortality in ages 20 to 64 equaling 11.36 deaths per 100,000 individuals, a 3.6 percent decrease. This estimate is largely...
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Overcoming vulnerabilities of health care systems
Pisu, Mauro - 2014
This paper investigates the vulnerabilities of health care systems in OECD and BRIICS countries to adverse secular trends and large macroeconomic shocks. It identifies policies that can ally vulnerabilities considering the institutional setting of health care systems, such as the public-private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375308
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Decomposing differences in health and inequality using quasi-objective health indices
Heger, Dörte - 2016
People in Canada and the U.S. often make claims regarding whose country has a better health system. Several researchers have attempted to address this question by analysing subjective health in the two countries, thus assuming a common definition of “good” health. Using data from the Joint...
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Physicians’ Balance Billing, Supplemental Insurance and Access to Health Care
Jelovac, Izabela - 2013
Some countries allow physicians to balance bill patients, that is, to bill a fee above the one that is negotiated with, and reimbursed by the health authorities. Balance billing is known for restricting access to physicians' services while supplemental insurance against balance billing amounts...
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