BACKGROUND A common characteristic of health systems in most developing countries is unequal access to health services. As a result, members of the poorest population groups often do not receive formal attention for health services, because they cannot afford it. In 2001 in Mexico, to address income-related differences in the use of health services, the government launched a major healthcare re...

Rationale: One in three Americans under 65 years of age does not have health insurance during some portion of each year. Patients who are critically ill and lack health insurance may be at particularly high risk of morbidity and mortality due to the high cost of intensive care. Objectives: To systematically review the medical and nonmedical literature to determine whether differences in critica...

Social Insurance with Competitive Insurance Markets and Risk Misperception* This paper considers an economy where individuals differ in productivity and in risk. Rochet (1991) has shown that when private insurance markets offer full coverage at fair rates, social insurance is desirable if and only if risk and productivity are negatively correlated. This condition is usually shown to be satisfie...

epidemiological studies and clinical findings have shown an association between trauma and dissociation; dissociative experiences are also more prevalent among select populations such as substance dependent individuals and criminal offenders. in the present non-systematic review, we explored the association between trauma, dissociation, and high-risk behaviors. we aimed to find if the presence ...

COVID-19 had a major impact on transit ridership and behavior patterns in New South Wales, Australia, around the world. This paper evaluates on-demand levels using data from Wales Open Data Portal. By separating services by urban regional locality, it became clear that patronage different ways. The results demonstrate locational context can fundamentally service uptake.

The public debate over disability insurance has centered on concerns about individuals without severe health conditions receiving benefits. We go beyond risk alone to quantify the overall value of U.S. programs, including from insuring nonhealth risk. find that recipients, especially those with less‐severe conditions, are much more likely have experienced a wide variety shocks than nonrecipient...

The demand for insurance against loss from a particular risky asset is likely to depend on other risks the decision maker faces. For independently distributed other risks, referred to as background risk, Eeckhoudt and Kimball [1992] determine the effect on insurance demand of introducing background risk. Recently, Eeckhoudt, Gollier and Schlesinger [1996] determine conditions on preferences suc...

Demand for reducing mental health impacts from flooding through collective flood defence is elicited using a contingent valuation method with sequential hypothetical scenario, which accounts human resilience and experience. A two-step model fits the survey data: it combines binary sample selection rule to distinguish protesters participants Tobit accommodate true zero responses among participan...