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<Para ID="Par1">Many developing countries have introduced social health insurance programs to help address two of the United Nations’ millennium development goals—reducing infant mortality and improving maternal health outcomes. By making modern health care more accessible and affordable, policymakers hope...</para>
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C1; C3; I1 </AbstractSection> Copyright Härkänen et al.; licensee Springer. 2013
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Sample selection models, variants of which are the Heckman and Heckit models, are increasingly used by political scientists to accommodate data in which censoring of the dependent variable raises concerns of sample selectivity bias. Beyond demonstrating several pitfalls in the calculation of...
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We use individual level data from eight waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey during 1991–2011 to investigate age profiles of health expenditure for rural and urban residents in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Employing a two-part model, we find that health expenditure of rural...
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The use of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), a costly high-tech treatment for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), is much more frequent in Japan than in other developed countries, resulting in large medical expenditure. Using chart-based data from the Tokai...
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We estimate the determinants of utilisation of physician and hospital services in Belgium using four different … allows for a two-part decision making process. The estimates of the determinants of utilisation of health care are then used …
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In this paper, we contribute to the empirical literature on household finances by introducing a Bayesian bivariate two-part model. With correlated random effects, the proposed approach allows for the potential interdependence between the holding of assets and debt at the household level and also...
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TThe paper measures horizontal equity in health care access and utilization in Japan by estimating the coefficients for … horizontal equity in health care access and utilization in Japan, horizontal inequity remains in health insurance premiums and …
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