This paper applies a new methodology to decompose the overall redistributive effect (RE) of health care finance on income distribution. Contrary to most previous studies, the RE of various financing schemes are disentangled and estimated as sample statistics to reveal the vertical and horizontal...

This paper analyzes the redistributive effect and progressivity associated with the current health care financing schemes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), using data from the first Palestinian Household Health Expenditure Survey conducted in 2004. The paper goes beyond the commonly...

Income-related inequalities and horizontal inequity in health-care utilisation have recently been widely studied using linear additive models of decomposition. This paper applies new methods of decomposition by factors, based on microsimulation technique. Besides avoiding the unavoidable price...