health care and Rajiv Aryogyasri (RAS), a health insurance scheme to cover the catastrophic health expenditure of BPL …

This study seeks to identify the key factors that influence the inflation rate of health care services. The time series … this inflation rate. The health care inflation rate is found to be an increasing function of the over age 65 population …

"competitive" health insurance markets. I use the insurance choices of senior citizens in the U.S. as an example. I then consider … the issue of whether consumers benefit when we create more choice by letting private firms offer health insurance in … (ii) empirical results show that consumers are very confused about their health insurance options. Thus, I argue …

alternatives and rich patterns of consumer taste heterogeneity. These new methods have important potential application in health … interest in health economics for a number of reasons. For example, the longstanding interest in optimal design of insurance …

Direct out-of-pocket payments for healthcare continue to be a major source of health financing in low-income and middle … represents up to four times the official tariff. Factors related to the following: (i) human resource management of the health … facilities (e.g., task shifting); (ii) health professionals' perceptions vis-à-vis the remunerations of HIV care provision; and …

India’s health care and health financing provision is characterized by too little Government spending on health, meager … health insurance coverage, declining public health care use contrasted by highest levels of private out-of-pocket health … framework of health insurance and health care revisits the existing health insurance schemes and assesses the health insurance …

health insurance for the poor. We examine the effects of this social health insurance on women’s use of healthcare …

This paper examines health insurance choice and its dynamics using panel data from Chile’s National Socio Economic …, education, geographical location and health status. Evidence of adverse selection against the public sector was found in both … decision models. The results of this paper are in line with most of the previous investigations done on Chile’s health …

health insurance choice and its dynamics. The article takes advantage of the panel data to examine the dynamics and …, gender, geographical location and health shocks. Evidence of moral hazard and adverse selection was found in the longitudinal … Chile’s health insurance system and advance previous knowledge on the topic by including the dynamism that panel data …