Financing a County Health Unit

Health Services Financing

• To study the role of health care financing and its impact on the delivery of health care. • To understand the basic concept of insurance and how insurance terminology, such as premiums, covered services, and cost sharing apply to health insurance. • To differentiate between the concepts of group insurance, selfinsurance, individual health insurance, and managed care. • To examine the distinct...

Demand Side Financing in Health

Health Financing: Does Governance Quality Matter?

This paper contributes to the existing literature by examining the determinants of health financing in 177 developed and developing countries. The study introduces the variables of government effectiveness and control of corruption to capture the impact of governance quality on different mechanisms of health financing. Utilizing panel data analysis, namely system-GMM estimators, to obtain unbia...

Evaluation of Iran\'s Health Financing System

Background and Aim: The health financing system is "the process of collecting, pooling and managing financial resources and purchasing healthcare services”. Iran's health financing system is facing challenges. The aim of this study was to evaluate the Iranian health financing system.         Materials and Methods: This descriptive study retrospectively evaluated the health financing system of...

Financing the health care Internet.

Internet-related health care firms have accelerated through the life cycle of capital finance and organizational destiny, including venture capital funding, public stock offerings, and consolidation, in the wake of heightened competition and earnings disappointments. Venture capital flooded into the e-health sector, rising from $3 million in the first quarter of 1998 to $335 million two years l...