Establishment of public-private partnerships is an emerging model in health care delivery. This study evaluates a pioneering social health insurance program in India that enables eligible households to access private hospitals for tertiary care services free of cost, but does not build more...

Healthcare cost acceleration and resource allocation issues have worsened across European health systems, where a small group of patients drives excessive healthcare spending. The prediction of high-cost utilization patterns is important for the sustainable management of healthcare and focused...

Establishment of public–private partnerships is an emerging model in health care delivery. This study evaluates a pioneering social health insurance program in India that enables eligible households to access private hospitals for tertiary care services free of cost, but does not build more...

Health care services are Germany's largest in-kind transfer, yet their distributional effects remain underexplored. Using a microsimulation model, we integrate detailed survey data on health care utilisation from the German Health Update Study (GEDA) with administrative expenditure records from...