Healthcare Cost and Financing

Singapore’s healthcare financing: Some challenges

Based on the principle of individual responsibility and affordability Singapore has developed a unique healthcare model that has produced outstanding health outcomes per dollar spent. Data analysis shows that healthcare financing in Singapore is nevertheless highly dependent on individual income levels despite the presence of substantial government subsidies. Moreover, the key me...

Intellectual and Developmental Disability: Healthcare Financing

1 The Resource Exchange, Colorado Springs, CO, USA 2 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel 3 Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel 4 Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel 5 Kentucky Children’s Hospital, Univer...

Recurrent cost financing: an overview

This paper provides an overview of several of the conceptual issues related to the current assessment by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) of recipient experience in the maintenance of project assets, with particular focus on problems of recurrent cost financing. These issues are primarily generic in character, and may be applicable in most, if not all, AusAID project...

Optimal Healthcare Spending with Redistributive Financing

Capitation in Healthcare Financing in Ghana.

OBJECTIVE To analyse implementation of the pilot study of the per capita system of healthcare financing in Ghana in 2012 for a determination of the likelihood of realising the inherent theoretical benefits when the system is rolled out nationally. DESIGN AND SETTING First, publicly available information on how the pilot unfolded is presented, followed by the reaction of the health authorities...