نتایج جستجو برای: health financing

تعداد نتایج: 991099  

Journal: :Benefits quarterly 2007
Jeffrey D Munn Lynne Wozniak

Health care systems all over the world are experiencing some change as they look for a new balance between supply and demand. This article provides context for the U.S. health care financing debate by examining the health care systems of five other countries: Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, China and India. The authors show that, with few exceptions, countries around the world have seen ...

Journal: Iranian Economic Review 2018

This paper contributes to the existing literature by examining the determinants of health financing in 177 developed and developing countries. The study introduces the variables of government effectiveness and control of corruption to capture the impact of governance quality on different mechanisms of health financing. Utilizing panel data analysis, namely system-GMM estimators, to obtain unbia...

Journal: :African health sciences 2009
C M Zikusooka R Kyomuhang J N Orem M Tumwine

INTRODUCTION Health care financing provides the resources and economic incentives for operating health systems and is a key determinant of health system performance. Equitable financing is based on: financial protection, progressive financing and cross-subsidies. This paper describes Uganda's health care financing landscape and documents the key equity issues associated with the current financi...

Journal: :iranian journal of public health 0
m abolhallaje research center for health services management, kerman university of medical science, kerman, iran ; budget and performance monitoring, ministry of health and medical education, tehran, iran. sa hasani p bastani m ramezanian m kazemian

this study will provide detailed specification of those variables and determinants of unpredictable health expenditure in iran, and the requirements to reduce extensive effects of the factors affecting households' payments for health and other goods and services inappropriately.this study aims to identify measures of fair financing of health services and determinants of fair financing contribut...

Journal: :Health economics 2007
Eddy van Doorslaer Owen O'Donnell Ravindra P Rannan-Eliya Aparnaa Somanathan Shiva Raj Adhikari Charu C Garg Deni Harbianto Alejandro N Herrin Mohammed Nazmul Huq Shamsia Ibragimova Anup Karan Tae-Jin Lee Gabriel M Leung Jui-Fen Rachel Lu Chiu Wan Ng Badri Raj Pande Rachel Racelis Sihai Tao Keith Tin Kanjana Tisayaticom Laksono Trisnantoro Chitpranee Vasavid Yuxin Zhao

Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments are the principal means of financing health care throughout much of Asia. We estimate the magnitude and distribution of OOP payments for health care in fourteen countries and territories accounting for 81% of the Asian population. We focus on payments that are catastrophic, in the sense of severely disrupting household living standards, and approximate such payments...

Journal: :Health affairs 1999
K Donelan R J Blendon C Schoen K Davis K Binns

Many nations have undergone changes in health care financing and services. The public notices policy changes in health care and frequently bears new and unexpected costs or barriers to care unwillingly. This paper presents data from surveys of about 1,000 adults conducted during April-June 1998 in each of five countries--Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States-...

1995
Katharine R. Levit Helen C. Lazenby Cathy A. Cowan Darleen K. Won Jean M. Stiller Lekha Sivarajan Madie W. Stewart

The dynamics of financing health care among various levels of government and the private sector are rapidly changing; structural relationships among health care providers are also being altered. These changes are placing increased importance on State-level expenditure estimates that will be instrumental in measuring the differential impact of Federal policies and State-specific initiatives on i...

2010
Robert K Basaza Bart Criel Patrick Van der Stuyft

BACKGROUND This paper investigates knowledge of Community Health Insurance (CHI) and the perception of its relevance by key policy makers and health service managers in Uganda. Community Health Insurance schemes currently operate in the private-not-for-profit sector, in settings where church-based facilities function. They operate in a wider policy environment where user fees in the public sect...

Journal: :international journal of health policy and management 2014
ufuoma john ejughemre

the health sector, a foremost service sector in nigeria, faces a number of challenges; primarily, the persistent under-funding of the health sector by the nigerian government as evidence reveals low allocations to the health sector and poor health system performance which are reflected in key health indices of the country.notwithstanding, there is evidence that the private sector could be a key...

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