Paying informally for public health care in Albania: scarce resources or governance failure?

Paying informally for public health care in Albania : scarce resources or governance failure ?

Informal payments for health care are common in most former communist countries. This paper explores the demand side of these payments in Albania. Using tobit and Heckman selection models we control for individual determinants of informal payments in outpatient and inpatient health care. Propensity score matching techniques are used to investigate the changes in the characteristics of people pa...

Paying Out-of-Pocket and Informally for Health Care in Albania: The Impoverishing Effect on Households

1 Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, United Nations University-MERIT (UNU-MERIT), Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands, 2 Department of Economics, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium, 3 Top Institute Evidence Based Education Research (TIER), Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands, 4 Department of Health Services Research, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, M...

Paying Informally in the Albanian Health Care Sector: A Two-Tiered Stochastic Frontier Bargaining Model

The 'watch dog' role of the media, the impact of migration processes, health care access for children in developing countries, mitigation of the effects of Global Warming are typical examples of governance issues – issues to be tackled at the base; issues to be solved by creating and implementing effective policy. students to pave the road for innovative policy developments in Europe and the wo...

Paying for public mental health care: crucial questions.

Governance in managing public health resources in Brazilian municipalities.

This study contributes to the health governance discussion by presenting a new data set that allows for comparisons of the management of health resources among Brazilian municipalities. Research on Brazil is particularly important as the provision of health services was decentralized in 1988 and since then municipalities have been given greater responsibilities for the management of fiscal reso...