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Gendered barriers to formal healthcare utilization: Modelling healthcare demand in a lowresource setting
Cavatorta, Elisa; Janssens, Wendy; Mesnard, Alice - 2021
, focussing on the heterogeneous responses to these three factors by gender. We find that women are more price sensitive than men … clinics would substantially increase both men's and women's access to formal care, and almost eliminate the observed gender …, but it fully eliminates the observed gender gap in addition to broadening the capacity of the health sector to respond to …
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Gendered Barriers to Formal Healthcare Utilization : Modelling Healthcare Demand in a Low-Resource Setting
Cavatorta, Elisa; Janssens, Wendy; Mesnard, Alice - 2021
, focusing on the heterogeneous responses to these three factors by gender. We find that women are more price sensitive than men … clinics would substantially increase both men's and women's access to formal care, and almost eliminate the observed gender …, but it fully eliminates the observed gender gap in addition to broadening the capacity of the health sector to respond to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013214783
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The effect of universal health care on the out-of-pocket health expenditures : evidence from a natural experiment
Asali, Muhammad; Pantsulaia, Valida - 2022
In the first two quarters of 2013 the Georgian government introduced and fully implemented a universal health care (UHC) plan covering all those not-yet publicly or privately insured. We estimate the effect of the introduction of the universal healthcare plan on the level of out-of-pocket (OOP)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013345889
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The Prices in the Crises : What We Are Learning from Twenty Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Das, Jishnu; Đỗ-Quý-Toàn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition. First, health insurance would boost...
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The Fair Deal Universal Health Care Proposals : Historians’ Perspectives from 1970 to 2003
Horvath, George - 2019
Throughout the Truman administration's Fair Deal era, ideas for a national system of publicly financed universal health care were developed, debated, and even proposed in Congress. In spite of public support for health care reform, each legislative proposal that embodied these ideas failed, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865777
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Socio-Economic Disparities in US Healthcare Spending : The Role of Public vs Private Insurance
Capatina, Elena - 2018
In the US healthcare system, patients of different socio-economic status (SES) often receive disparate treatment for similar conditions. Prior work documents this phenomenon for particular treatments/conditions, but we take a system-wide view and examine socioeconomic disparities in spending for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928051
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Looking at History to Reduce Current Healthcare Costs
Byrd, James; Smith, Douglas; Helms, Marilyn M. - 2016
When the history of healthcare and insurance in the US is examined, it is clear the patient has become more and more removed from the payment process. Insurers including Medicare moved to pay providers more quickly and eliminated pre-payment by the insured customer beyond a typical small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014127990
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Universal Healthcare Coverage and Subjective Wellbeing : Evidence From Massachusetts Healthcare Reform
Raut, Nilesh - 2019
In 2006, the state of Massachusetts sanctioned the individual health insurance mandate and the expansion of health insurance coverage through Healthcare Reform Law. I design a quasi-experimental study using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey data sets from 2005 through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014106691
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Lessons for Health Care Policy in the United States : Comparing Health Care Systems
Aspalter, Christian - 2012
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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Identifying the effects of health insurance coverage on health care use when coverage is misreported and endogenous
Ha Trong Nguyen; Le, Huong Thu; Blyth, Christopher; … - 2024
The examination of the causal impact of health insurance coverage on healthcare utilisation is a critical endeavour in both academic research and policy formulation. However, this endeavour faces challenges, notably the endogenous selection into coverage and prevalent misreporting of coverage...
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