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Gerechtigkeit und Verteilungswirkungen der Gesundheitsreform 2007

Honekamp, Ivonne; Rehmann, Adelheid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

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 …

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The German Health Care System in an International Comparison: Assessments and Reform Options

Osterkamp, Rigmar - In: CESifo Forum 2 (2001) 3, pp. 56-63

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Private Sector Participation in Water and Sanitation for Developing Countries

Rudolph, Karl-Ulrich; Harbach, Michael - In: CESifo DICE Report 5 (2007) 2, pp. 33-39

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Gesundheitsreform 2010: Einstieg in den Systemwechsel?

Rösler, Philipp; Pimpertz, Jochen; Breyer, Friedrich; … - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 63 (2010) 16, pp. 03-21

Im Herbst soll im Bundestag eine Reform der GKV verabschiedet werden und zum 1. Januar 2011 in Kraft treten. Philipp Rösler, Bundesgesundheitsminister, unterstreicht, dass die Reform den Einstieg in den Systemwechsel bedeutet: Denn mit der Festschreibung des prozentualen Beitragssatzes und der...

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Unfree markets: Socially embedded informal health providers in northern Karnataka, India

George, Asha; Iyer, Aditi - In: Social Science & Medicine 96 (2013) C, pp. 297-304

The dynamics of informal health markets in marginalised regions are relevant to policy discourse in India, but are … poorly understood. We examine how informal health markets operate from the viewpoint of informal providers (those without any … in health systems, more responsive to communities and more vulnerable to unregulated market pressures than others …

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How Does the Introduction of Health Insurance Change the Equity in the Health Care Provision in Bulgaria?

Markova, Nora - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

The study examines the effect of health care reform in Bulgaria in 1999 on the equity of health care financing. It … explores the distribution of different types of health care financing by income. Furthermore, it separates the financial and … distinguishing between financially based and "exclusion based" reasons for having progressive/regressive health care financing …

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Bosnia and Herzegovina; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paperâ€”Mid-Term Development Strategy

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

Poverty risk is most marked for children, displaced persons and returnees, unemployed, and people with low education. Basic goals of the macroeconomic framework of the mid-term development strategy of Bosnia and Herzegovina are to reduce the overall public expenditures, lower the public debt,...

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What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy?

Heller, Peter S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

health sector policy, particularly when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity … state and market in health care financing and provision. It also suggests situations in which macroeconomists should engage … health sector specialists in policy formulation exercises. Finally, it reviews the different health policy issues that …

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The Health Sector in the Slovak Republic; Efficiency and Reform

Gunnarsson, Victoria; Lugaresi, Sergio; Verhoeven, Marijn - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

The paper assesses the financial situation of the health sector in the Slovak Republic. It also evaluates the … efficiency of health expenditures and service delivery in comparison to the OECD and other new EU member states and suggests … avenues for cost recovery and reform. The health sector of the Slovak Republic is plagued by financial problems. To turn …

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What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy: A Primer

Hsiao, William C. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

address issues concerning health sector policy and when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also … roles for the state and market in health care financing and provision. It also suggests the situations in which … macroeconomists should engage health sector specialists in policy formulation exercises. Finally, it illustrates the different health …

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