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Health Insurance, the Social Welfare System and Household Saving

This paper studies the factors that can generate the puzzling saving phenomenon in the US: 1) Starr-McCluer (1996) finds that households covered by private health insurance save more than comparable households without coverage, even when controlling for ...
Hsu, Minchung
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THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE MARKET IN THE EUROPEAN UNION [PDF]

Private health insurance serves three distinct functions in western European health systems. The first is as an alternative for mandatory (statutory) social health insurance arrangements.
Bianca Mihart Ph. D Student
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Expectations and Reality: The Lived Experiences of Australians With Psychosocial Disability Within the NDIS

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was founded on principles of choice and control, for people with significant mental health challenges (what the NDIS calls ‘psychosocial disability’) these ideals often remain elusive. Support systems continue to be fractured and in the context of ongoing policy reforms, it is vital
Joel Hollier, Jennifer Smith‐Merry
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A nationwide program for lung cancer screening by low-dose CT among formerly asbestos-exposed workers in Germany: concept and participation

Safety and Health at Work, 2022
Jan Heidrich, Alexandra Centmayer, Christian Wolff, Thorsten Wiethege, Dirk Taeger, Melanie Duell, Volker Harth   +6 more
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Organizational Forms and Welfare Coalitions: Corporate Law and the Movement for Social Insurance in the US and UK. [PDF]

Br J Sociol
Adereth M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Social Norms and Individual Savings in the Context of Informal Insurance [PDF]

This paper develops a theory of informal insurance in the presence of an intertemporal technology. It is shown that when an insurance agreement suffers from enforcement problems, constraints on individual savings behaviour can enable the group to sustain
Zaki Wahhaj
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood, Christopher Phelps, Silvia Salazar, Rachel Ong ViforJ   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Virological outcomes and treatment retention in North Vietnam amidst transition to social insurance-based HIV services and dolutegravir-based regimens. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Matsumoto S, Nagai M, Tran LK, Hayashida T, Nguyen HDT, Nguyen TM, Van Tran G, Mizushima D, Tanuma J, Van Nguyen K, Pham TN, Oka S.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Harmonizing unemployment and sickness insurance: Why (not)? [PDF]

The paper discusses harmonization of unemployment insurance (UI) and sickness insurance (SI). The focus is on the difference between the benefit ceilings in the two insurance systems that has been shown to affect the behavior among unemployed SI ...
Larsson, Laura
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Barriers and Enablers for Effective Support Coordination in the National Disability Insurance Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Support coordinators act as intermediaries between the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and participants, facilitating access to funded supports. To optimise outcomes, they must navigate NDIS complexities, identify services that meet individual needs and engage with diverse stakeholders.
Sharyn McDonald, Lee Cubis, Di Winkler, Jacinta Douglas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source