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Cross-border purchases of health services : a case study on Austria and Hungary [PDF]

This paper explores the structure of cross-border health purchasing between Austria and Hungary and determines the size of this phenomenon as well as the barriers to a further increase.
Obermaier, Andreas J.
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Bismarck meets Beveridge on the Silk Road: coordinating funding sources to create a universal health financing system in Kyrgyzstan

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2009
Options for health financing reform are often portrayed as a choice between general taxation (known as the Beveridge model) and social health insurance (known as the Bismarck model).
Joseph Kutzin, Ainura Ibraimova, Melitta Jakab, Sheila O'Dougherty   +3 more
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Effects of access to health insurance on healthcare utilization in Peru

Discover Public Health
Background The role of the government in providing health insurance for the population is to ensure that everyone has access to affordable and quality healthcare services. According to previous studies, health insurance generally has a positive impact on
Joshep Jonathan Espinoza Zavaleta, Bongkyun Kim   +1 more
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A General-Equilibrium Analysis of Public Policy for Pharmaceutical Prices [PDF]

Retail sales of prescription drugs totaled $154.5 billion in 2001. The National Institute for Health Care Management estimates annual sales will exceed $400 billion by the year 2010.
Kelton, Christina M.L., Rebelein, Robert P.   +1 more
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Health Care Reform: Separating Insurance from Income Redistribution [PDF]

Most systems of health care financing in EU member states currently include elements of income redistribution. The paper analyzes the effects of shifting this kind of redistribution to the tax system and argues that this reform could create two types of ...
Andreas Haufler, Friedrich Breyer
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the utilization of healthcare

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
Chung-liang Shih, Oliver Liu, You-Jun Lin   +2 more
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Financing health services in Africa : an assessment of alternative approaches [PDF]

This paper outlines a strategy for financing health services in sub-Saharan Africa. The individual components of the strategy are as follows: general tax revenues, international finance, a system of user charges, community finance, health insurance, and ...
Mwabu, Germano
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Determinants of willingness to pay for health insurance in later stages of the Covid-19 pandemic: findings based on the general adult population in Germany. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Hajek A, König HH.
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Reforming health care : a case for stay well health insurance [PDF]

All countries - whether industrial, developing, or in transition to a market economy - are interested in health care reform. A central focus of reform everywhere is to make patients more responsive to health care costs without diluting the protection ...
Bogetic, Zeljko, Heffley, Dennis
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Healthcare Access and Health Status by Primary Source of Health Insurance and Occupation. [PDF]

Am J Ind Med
Silver SR, Li J, Asfaw A.
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