Objective: We examine the extent to which the health care services delivered by physicians and hospitals in public and private health plans are capitated, and how this changed from 1996 to 2000. Study Design: The data are drawn from the 1996 to 2000 years of the nationally representative Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). Information on whether health care use was covered by capitated arr...

This analysis of the Belarusian health system reviews the developments in organization and governance, health financing, healthcare provision, health reforms and health system performance since 2008. Despite considerable change since independence, Belarus retains a commitment to the principle of universal access to health care, provided free at the point of use through predominantly state-owned...

The cost of COVID-19 services can be a burden in itself that affect hospital budgets. Services for patients at RSUP dr. Kariadi has so far been running well and smoothly, but there is no detailed data information regarding financing, the process submitting financing claim its implications finances as leadership policies activities are needed to analyze costs COVID-19. purpose study was COVID-19...

This research aims to analyze which internal and external factors related sustainabilityoriented innovation (SOI) are present at Hospital de Clínicas Porto Alegre-RS (HCPA). Adescriptive qualitative case study was carried out. The main results show thatsustainability drives innovation, SOI is theorganization, and, in this specific case, we observed that three (safety, financing, andcost/price) ...

Objective The results of an evaluative longitudinal study, which identified the effects of health care decentralization on health financing in Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru are presented in this article. Methods The methodology had two main phases. In the first, secondary sources of data and documents were analyzed with the following variables: type of decentralization implemented, source of finan...

Despite the increasing investment in sustainable development over the past decade, a systematic review of sustainable construction project financing is lacking. The objectives of this paper are to conduct a systematic review to examine the policies, practices, and research efforts in the area of sustainable construction project financing, and to explore the potential opportunities for the futur...

From the point of view of bank process reengineering theory, the paper focuses its discussion on definition and features of international trade financing based on the principles and requirements of financial innovation. Through the clarification for international trade financing process and comparison for ways of international trade financing under traditional trade settlement methods, trade fi...

This paper investigates macroeconomic effects of bank regulation in a continuoustime macro-finance framework with both bond-financing and bank-financing. Risky firms appreciate bank credit because banks are efficient at liquidating assets for troubled firms. However, risky firms must pay the risk premium for banks’ exposure to aggregate risks. Our framework captures the feature that the cost of...

BACKGROUND The improvement of maternal health has been one of the aims of the health financing reforms in Georgia. Public-private relationships are the most notable part of the reform. This study aimed to assess the strengths and weakness of the maternal care financing in Georgia in terms of adequacy and effects. METHODS A qualitative design was used to explore the opinions of key stakeholder...

The complex financing system that supports health care spending in the US makes estimation of the incidence of financing both daunting and important. A significant portion of financing is embedded in the tax system at all levels of government, while tax expenditures that subsidize private purchases implicitly transfer a large share of financing from private to public revenue sources. We compute...