Uniform health care delivered by a mainstream public insurer â⠬â such as the National Health Service (NHS), seldom satisfies heterogeneous demands for care, and some unsatisfied share of the population either use private health care, or purchase private insurance (PHI). One potential...

Managing dual practice of health workers has often proved to be challenging, especially in emerging countries characterized by weak monitoring and low motivation. This paper exploits an exogenous variation in the initiation of private practice among heads of local public facilities (known as...

Germany’s healthcare system is praised as one of the best in the world. In this article, we review Germany’s health system by critically analysing its structure, funding, resource allocation, provider payments, efficiency, health outcomes, and access. Whilst health provision and access are...

The Healthcare Openness and Access Project (HOAP) is a collection of state-by-state comparative data on the flexibility and discretion that US patients and providers have in seeking and delivering healthcare. HOAP combines these data to produce 41 indicators of openness and accessibility. In...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate patient fear and the factors that could possibly trigger this phenomenon in Mauritian`s private healthcare settings. A mixed-methods approach was considered to fulfilling the research aim. The research sample comprised 27 healthcare professionals and...

Intrinsic motivation and monetary incentives affect an expert's choice of firm, and thus also the performance of the firm. These effects are particularly important for consumers of credence goods in mission industries, where experts perform duties that align with their own personal belief...

In 2006, the state of Massachusetts sanctioned the individual health insurance mandate and the expansion of health insurance coverage through Healthcare Reform Law. I design a quasi-experimental study using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey data sets from 2005 through...

This article argues that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) seems to have recently acknowledged that there is a right to access to emergency health care in the member states of the Council of Europe. The Chamber of the ECtHR found that a state’s failure to design a regulatory framework...

In this study, we document the effect of food stamp access on adult health care utilization. While the Food Stamp Program provides one of the largest safety nets in the United States today, the universal nature of the program across geographic areas and over time limits the potential for...