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The impact of public voluntary health insurance on private health expenditures in Vietnam

Social Science & Medicine, 2003
As a financing mechanism with the potential to raise additional funds for health services, whilst improving access to services amongst the poor, non-profit health insurance has become increasingly attractive to health policy-makers. Using data from a household survey in Vietnam, out of pocket health expenditure are compared between members and eligible
M, Jowett, P, Contoyannis, N D, Vinh
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Private health insurance and public expenditures in Jamaica

Journal of Econometrics, 1997
Abstract Many governments who have large public health care systems are looking for means to reduce the public's financial burden. One approach is to increase reliance on private health care delivery through expanded private insurance coverage. Using data from Jamaica, we estimate models of the demand for medical care.
Gertler, Paul, Sturm, Roland
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Medical and Dental Care Utilization and Expenditures Under Medicaid and Private Health Insurance

Medical Care Research and Review, 2009
Data from the 2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey were used to conduct a disaggregated comparison of utilization and expenditures under Medicaid and private health insurance for low-income adults and children. After adjustment for health status and other factors, Medicaid adults and children had greater use of prescription drugs than the privately ...
Leighton Ku
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The dynamics of public and private health expenditure on health outcome in Southeast Asia

Health & Social Care in the Community, 2022
Though the level of public and private health expenditure per capita in Southeast Asia is comparatively below the level of health expenditure in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, the former has higher rates of under-five and non-communicable disease mortality rates than the latter.
Shailender Singh, Muhammad Muazu Bala, Nishant Kumar   +2 more
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Private health expenditure in Ireland: Assessing the affordability of private financing of health care

Health Policy, 2019
This paper investigates the affordability of private health expenditure among Irish households and the services contributing towards financial hardship. We use data from the Irish Household Budget Survey, a representative survey of household spending in Ireland, covering 2009-10 and 2015-16.
Bridget M, Johnston, Sara, Burke, Sarah, Barry, Charles, Normand, Maebh, Ní Fhallúin, Steve, Thomas   +5 more
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THE CYCLICAL BEHAVIOUR OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HEALTH EXPENDITURE IN CHINA

Health Economics, 2013
SUMMARYThis paper studies short‐run cyclical behaviour of public (government and social) and private health expenditure and GDP using both time series and panel data techniques. First, national time series data have been used within a multivariate Beveridge–Nelson decomposition framework to construct the permanent and cyclical components.
Chen, Gang, Inder, Brett, Lorgelly, Paula, Hollingsworth, Bruce   +3 more
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Rationalizing the Mix of Public and Private Expenditures in Health

The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, 1968
The more one struggles to foresee the characteristics of the post-July, 1966, American health care economy, to classify the data that will measure those characteristics, and to speculate about future trends, the more one is troubled by the terms "public and private sectors," "public and private expenditures," as they have customarily been used.
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