PHP37 SOCIAL HEALTH INSURANCE, PREVENTIVE CARE AND HEALTH CARE EXPENDITURE

What Distinguishes Preventive Medicine from Preventive Health Care in Health Care Systems?

Letter to Editor

The Place of Health Insurance in Reducing Catastrophic Health Expenditure

This paper was aimed to investigate the mixed empirical results on the effect of health insurance in reducing the risk of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). We investigated a wide range of factors affecting the risk of CHE among patients admitted to hospitals in Tehran. We categorized hospitals into five groups from private hospitals to charity ones. The data used herein was extracted from ...

[Controversies in preventive health care. III. Juvenile health care].

The effect of Taiwan's National Health Insurance on infants' preventive care use and inpatient care use.

OBJECTIVE To test whether utilization of infant preventive care services has reduced utilization of inpatient care and to determine whether implementation of Taiwan's National Health Insurance (NHI) has brought about any differences in the utilization of infant health care services. DATA SOURCES Data were taken from the 1989 and 1996 National Maternal and Infant Health Surveys (NMIHSs). In to...

MORTALITY CONTINGENT CLAIMS , HEALTH CARE , AND SOCIAL INSURANCE Tomas

This paper analyzes the savings and health care impacts of mortali~ coniirzgenf claims, defined here as income measures, such as annuities and life-insurance, under which earned income is contingent on the length of one’s life. The postwar increase in mandatory annuity and lifeinsurance programs, as well as the rapid increase in life-expectancy, motivates a better understanding of the effects t...