Preventive Care, Care for Children and National Health Insurance [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to examine issues related to the coverage of preventive care under national health insurance. Four specific kinds of medical care services are included under the rubric of preventive care: prenatal care; pediatric care ...
Gilbert R. Ghez, Michael Grossman
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Severing the Tie That Binds: Why a Publicly Funded, Universal Health Care System Would Be a Boon to U.S. Businesses [PDF]
, 2014 Americans' dependence on employer-sponsored health insurance arose as an unintended byproduct of World War II economic controls. To circumvent wage caps, businesses began offering health insurance and other fringe benefits to attract workers. The federal
Taylor Lincoln
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Health Security for rural poor: study of community based health insurance [PDF]
For many people living in developing nations, illness represents a permanent threat to their income earning capacity and, therefore, their livelihood .Health insurance has been progressively more recognized as a tool to finance healthcare provision in ...
Sudha, venu Menon
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The distortionary effect of health insurance on health demand [PDF]
This paper presents a general framework for modeling the impact of insurance on healthcare demand extending some of the results of the two-risk model of Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976), but including the latter as a special case. Rothschild and Stiglitz's
Carine Milcent, Nathalie Fombaron
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Investigating the policy Effect of Medicine Subsidy Plan (Daruyar) on Patients\' Out-Of-Pocket Payments :A Case Study of the General Health Insurance Administration of Isfahan Province [PDF]
Rāhburdhā-yi Mudīriyyat dar Niẓām-i SalāmatBackground: The policy of removing the preferred drug currency (Daruyar plan) has been with the approach of increasing the coverage ratio and insurance obligations and paying attention to patients' out of pockets, especially incurable, chronic and low ...
Farshid Aslani +2 more
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Factors Associated with Patient Satisfaction at Prof. Dr. W. Z Johannes General Hospital, Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Patient satisfaction is an important factor for the survival of health care delivery system. It is used as a measure of quality of care at the level of the individual provider as well as for health care systems and programs.
Ludji, I. D. (Ina ) +2 more
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BMC Public HealthBackground Dental services are often overlooked within healthcare systems, despite their critical role in overall health. Socioeconomic barriers and disparities in insurance coverage frequently limit access to oral care, particularly among vulnerable ...
Marite Falquez +8 more
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Public and Private Health Care Financing with Alternate Public Rationing [PDF]
We develop a model to analyze health care nancing arrangements and under alternative public sector rationing rules. Health care is demanded by individuals varying in income and severity of illness.
Andrew Muller +4 more
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Determining the premiums of general health insurance by fuzzy rule base
, 2018 As of 2008, under the name of Social Security Reform, Health Transformation program has been launched in Turkey and nobody has been aimed to remain out of the system. Even though this system provides comprehensive advantages to citizens, it also has some drawbacks about premium calculations. In the current system, premiums are calculated by using fixed
Ertuğrul, İrfan +1 more
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HEALTH SHOCKS AND CONSUMPTION SMOOTHING IN RURAL HOUSEHOLDS: DOES MICROCREDIT HAVE A ROLE TO PLAY? [PDF]
This paper estimates, using a large panel data set from rural Bangladesh, the effects of health shocks on household consumption and how access to microcredit affects households' response to such shocks.
Asadul Islam, Pushkar Maitra
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