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Reprioritizing Government Spending on Health: Pushing an Elephant Up the Stairs?
Tandon, Ajay; Fleisher, Lisa; Li, Rong; Yap, Wei Aun - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy for the extent to which health is prioritized by governments. World Health Organization (WHO) data estimate that, in 2011, health's share of aggregate government expenditure in...
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Impacts of universal health coverage : a micro-founded macroeconomic perspective
Huang, Xianguo; Yoshino, Naoyuki - 2015
This paper studies the impact of tax-financed universal health coverage schemes on macroeconomic aspects of labor supply, asset holding, inequality, and welfare, while taking into account features common to developing economies, such as informal employment and tax avoidance, by constructing a...
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The health economy in Mexico
Lomelí Vanegas, Leonardo - In: CEPAL review (2020) 132, pp. 181-193
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Health expenditures spent for prevention, economic performance, and social welfare
Wang, Fuhmei; Wang, Jung-der; Huang, Yu-xiu - In: Health economics review 6 (2016) 45, pp. 1-10
Background: Countries with limited resources in economic downturns often reduce government expenditures, of which spending on preventive healthcare with no apparent immediate health impact might be cut down first. This research aims to find the optimum share of preventive health expenditure to...
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Health insurance, market power, and social welfare
Liang, Run; Wang, Hao - In: International journal of economic theory 13 (2017) 4, pp. 427-442
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Impacts of health insurance on health care utilization and health behaviors among older people in China
Xue, Qingyuan; Nopphol Witvorapong - In: China economic journal : the official journal of the … 16 (2023) 1, pp. 80-99
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The impact of health care reform on hospital and preventive care : evidence from Massachusetts
Kolstad, Jonathan; Kowlaski, Amanda E - In: Journal of public economics 96 (2012) 11/12, pp. 909-929
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The doctor will be with you ... shortly? : the effect of insurance coverage on ED wait time
Woddworth, Lindsey - In: Journal of regulatory economics 45 (2014) 2, pp. 138-174
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Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment : a laboratory experiment
Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2016 - October 2014 (revised June 2016)
the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician, including observability of … whether he was perhaps overtreated. We find that with insurance, moral hazard looms on both sides of the market: patients … found to partially offset the adverse effects of insurance: most patients seek treatment, but overtreatment is moderated. …
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Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment : a laboratory experiment
Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2014
stylized way, we study the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician. Medical … overtreated. We find that with insurance, moral hazard looms on both sides of the market: patients consult more often and … adverse effects of insurance: most patients seek treatment, but overtreatment is moderated. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413597