نتایج جستجو برای: domestic financing of health

تعداد نتایج: 21303741  

Journal: :Journal of health politics, policy and law 2008
George France

This article examines the meaning of federalism for health care financing (HCF) and is based on two considerations. First, federal institutions are embedded in their national context and interact with them. The design and performance of HCF policy will be influenced by contexts, the workings of the federal institutions, and the interactions of these institutions with different elements of the c...

2016
Carlyn Mann Courtney Ng Nadia Akseer Zulfiqar A Bhutta Josephine Borghi Tim Colbourn Patricia Hernández-Peña Luis Huicho Muhammad Ashar Malik Melisa Martinez-Alvarez Spy Munthali Ahmad Shah Salehi Mekonnen Tadesse Mohammed Yassin Peter Berman Peter Berman Josephine Borghi Ravi Rannan-Eliya Lara Brearley Howard Friedman Nirmala Ravishankar Rafael Cortes Gemini Mtei

BACKGROUND Countdown to 2015 (Countdown) supported countries to produce case studies that examine how and why progress was made toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5. Analysing how health-financing data explains improvements in RMNCH outcomes was one of the components to the case studies. METHODS This paper presents a descriptive analysis on health financing from six Countdow...

2008
Eric Tsai

Consistent with the existing literature in U.S. domestic M&As, the methods of payment also seem to convey information about acquiring firm valuation in cross-border acquisitions. Cash-financing is associated with positive wealth gain upon foreign M&A announcements while equity-financing results in insignificant shareholder wealth increase. The fact that equity-financing does not lead to value l...

2001
Ann Harrison Inessa Love Margaret S. McMillan Ann E. Harrison

Firms often cite financing constraints as one of their primary obstacles to investment. Global capital flows, by bringing in scarce capital, may ease host-country firms' financing constraints. However, if incoming foreign investors borrow heavily from domestic banks, multinational firms may exacerbate financing constraints by crowding host-country firms out of domestic capital markets. Combinin...

Journal: :Health policy and planning 2007
Peter Kamuzora Lucy Gilson

Although prepayment schemes are being hailed internationally as part of a solution to health care financing problems in low-income countries, literature has raised problems with such schemes. This paper reports the findings of a study that examined the factors influencing low enrollment in Tanzania's health prepayment schemes (Community Health Fund). The paper argues that district managers had ...

2010
Cristiana Tudor

Cristiana Tudor∗ This study employs Enterprise Survey data to analyze business environment constraints and financing sources for investment for Romanian and Bulgarian companies at the end of 2009 and investigates the change in financing sources after the global financial crisis relative to a pre-crisis period (2005). The study also investigates whether the ownership structure of a firm affects ...

2006
Micah Hartman Cynthia Smith Stephen Heffler Mark Freeland

With each passing decade, health care has consumed a larger share of gross domestic product (GDP) and Federal budgets. By the 2000-2004 period, society was willing to devote over 20 percent of the cumulative increase in GDP and the cumulative increase in Federal outlays towards health care. The financing challenges are expected to become more acute for private payers as well as Federal, State, ...

Journal: :International Archives of Medicine 2008
Joses Muthuri Kirigia Saidou Pathe Barry

Africa is confronted by a heavy burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases. Cost-effective interventions that can prevent the disease burden exist but coverage is too low due to health systems weaknesses. This editorial reviews the challenges related to leadership and governance; health workforce; medical products, vaccines and technologies; information; financing; and services delive...

2012
Andre Carvalhal

The world financial crisis initiated in 2008 may have affected the international financing mix of firms in Brazil and their determinants, given its aftereffects. Financial crisis are recurrent events with varying degrees of severity. Many public Brazilian firms use international financing in their capital structure mix and it is relevant to understand their behavior during international crises....

Journal: :Health economics, policy, and law 2017
K Sujatha Rao

In 2012, the Chatham House established a Working Group on Health Financing, of which I was a member, to deliberate on a global framework for health financing (Røttingen et al., 2014) (reference to paper by McIntyre et al., 2017). Intensive discussions and exhaustive studies brought out 20 recommendations. Of them three were important points emphasizing the need for countries to (i) ensure a min...

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