Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing … health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To … modes. Overall, it can be concluded that the health care reforms have not reduced equity in health care financing neither if …

wider context scrutinised to assess potential consequences. Current risk regulation and GM legislation is narrowly defined …, and largely concerned with scientific evidence of harm to human health and the environment. This contrasts with the public …

Human Resources in Health is becoming important in these days. The Human Resources is an important area to be addressed … for better healthcare delivery. Health is a sector which depends much on the human resources compared to other sectors …. The human resources is the base for carrying out the services in health. The human resources in health includes …

Abstract Medical bankruptcy was at the heart of the health care reform debate. According to Himmelstein et al. (2009 … of Americans had no health insurance. The 2010 health care reform was designed to address the lack of health coverage and … incomplete markets to quantitatively evaluate the impact of the health care reform on the health insurance market and the …

We examine whether and to what extent the health insurance system in Turkey provided adequate protection against high … out of pocket expenditures in the period prior to “The Health Transformation Programme” (HTP) for the non elderly … population. We measure health care burdens as the share of out of pocket health care expenditures within family income. We define …

of Italian Regions in governing their health care systems. As a result of the model, we obtain a measure of the efficient … offering health care provisions to their citizens. …

The paper is concerned with the efficient organization of contractual relationships between health insurers and … health care system. The focus lies on an ex ante alignment of incentive structures as well as on an efficient handling of … in North Carolina, USA. Due to the implemented regulation, this state is well suited to serve as a reference. An excursus …

Within the debate about the rise of costs in the German health system, the argument has put forth that patients …