Effect of User Charges on Secondary Level Surgical Care Utilization and Out-of-Pocket Expenditures in Haryana State, India. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 BackgroundGeneration of resources for providing health care services is an important issue in developing countries. User charges in the form of Surgical Package Program (SPP) were introduced in all district hospitals of Haryana to address this problem ...
Deepak Balasubramanian +2 more
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Is there a role for user charges? Thoughts on health system reform in Armenia [PDF]
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2010 Patient user charges are widespread in health systems worldwide and are an increasingly controversial aspect of health financing policy. This paper discusses the current plan in Armenia to introduce formal patient user charges for hospital services. This
Matthew Jowett, Elizabeth Danielyan
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The impact of user charges on health outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review [PDF]
BMJ Glob Health, 2019 Background User charges are widely used health financing mechanisms in many health systems in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) due to insufficient public health spending on health.
Vicky Mengqi Qin +6 more
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The Administrative Costs of Local Government Property-Based User Charges and Their Regressivity
Central European Public Administration Review, 2011 The paper measures the administrative costs (assessment and collection costs) of immovable property user charges in local governments in Croatia. This study represents a small scale survey comprising mostly small local governments.
Helena Blažić +2 more
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Health Policy, 2017 BACKGROUND User charges in Swedish healthcare have increased during recent decades. This can be seen in terms of the recommodification of healthcare: making healthcare access more dependent on market position. This study investigates whether the increase
Bo Burström, Kristin Farrants
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Affordability of cancer care in the United Kingdom – Is it time to introduce user charges?
Journal of Cancer Policy, 2014 a b s t r a c t Context: In high income countries the costs of delivering high quality equitable care are outstripping present budgets. This article reviews the affordability of cancer care in these countries with particular reference to the United ...
Richard Sullivan
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Effects of a Digital Health Intervention for Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus on Health Care Resource Use and Health Care Charges in the United States: Retrospective Cohort Study [PDF]
Journal of Medical Internet ResearchBackgroundType 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic disease that requires management of blood glucose. According to previous studies, the Dario Digital Diabetes Solution (DDS) is a nonprescription digital health intervention ...
Laura Wilson +9 more
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Analysis of alternative commercial vehicle road user charges
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary PerspectivesAs fuel tax revenues decline from increased fuel efficiency and the transition to alternative fuels, governments are searching for new revenue sources to support the transportation system. User fees are among the most widely considered substitutes.
Dan Wei +3 more
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The Role of Reasonable User Charges in Financing the National Infrastructure Pipeline
Vikalpa, 2022 Kumar V. Pratap, Manshi Gupta
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Does the implementation of official user charges help to eradicate informal payments – Lessons to be learnt from the Hungarian experience [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2015 Petra eBaji +5 more
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