household income, socio-demographic factors, and private health insurance factors in both Japan and the USA. Using these two … rises, households have a positive effect on purchasing health insurance as a normal good. Another similarity between the two … pure health issuance characteristics, an increase in premium of health insurance policies cause individuals to substitute …

The investments in informational and communicational technologies in the health field represent a for of investing in … human capital because health and medical services will exceed the physician – patient relationship and the improvement of … the system, and the decision makers of the health system hold exclusivity on their own data, fact that makes them …

Increased health care spending has placed pressure on public and private payers to prioritize spending. Cost …

Outcomes in economic evaluations, such as health utilities and costs, are products of multiple variables, often … the precision of both imputation approaches. For health utility and cost, patients more often had a partial (9% vs. 23 …

the overall expenditure on atypicals by the National Health Fund in Poland. Methods: Prescription and reimbursed … expenditure data for olanzapine and risperidone were provided by the National Health Fund from 2002 to 2006, although no … based on regulations from the Ministry of Health. Results: Analysis of the data showed that the level of patient co …