While innovation is central for the quality of healthcare and improving health outcomes, it is also a source of increasing costs for governments. Confronted by fiscal pressures, governments have made efforts to restrict access to innovative treatments. While such policies are understandable,...

Das vorliegende Papier analysiert die Bestimmungsgründe der kantonalen Gesundheitsausgaben und integriert angebots- und nachfrageseitige Determinanten, Überlegungen aus der politischen Ökonomie und zentrale gesundheitspolitische Reformen in eine empirische Analyse des stark dezentral...

The present thesis analyzes how ill-health affects developing communities in rural India and the way health insurance products can be developed and tailored to low-income individuals´ needs and limited financial possibilities. A community-based health insurance scheme implemented in three sites...

Achieving universal health coverage through a multi-layered social health insurance system -- Population ageing and epidemiologic transitions in China -- Healthcare system in the pre-reform era -- Phases of health insurance reform -- A multi-layered health insurance system : composition, models,...

Economics of health care -- Insurance and reimbursement -- Managed care and ACOs -- Measuring nursing care -- Reporting and managing budgets -- Budget planning -- Special purpose, capital, and other budgets -- Cost-finding, break-even, and charges -- Comparing costs and benefits -- Writing a...

Since 2011 German health insurance funds have had to raise additional lump-sum contributions from members in case of insufficient allotment from the central health funds. The new German government plans to replace the lump-sum contributions with wage-related ones. Despite its contrary...

In 2009 the German central health fund was implemented. It was the result of a political compromise. One political party intended to equalise the risk structure among 130 different health care funds, and the other wanted to intensify competition and to improve efficiency among the different...

Our working group has considered how the thinking on domestic and external health financing and the financing of global public goods for health could be updated to account for the fundamental changes in the world since 2001, in particular the rise of the emerging economies and the improvement in...

Health spending has risen rapidly in Japan. We find two-thirds of the spending increase over 1990-2011 resulted from ageing, and the rest from excess cost growth. The spending level will rise further: ageing alone will raise it by 3 1/2 percentage points of GDP over 2010-30, and excess cost...

Vor mehr als fünf Jahren wurde der Gesundheitsfonds eingeführt, verbunden mit der Erwartung, dass mehr Gerechtigkeit und Wettbewerb in das Krankenversicherungssystem Einzug hielte. Vor allem der erhoffte Übergang vom Preis- zum Qualitätswettbewerb ist aber offenbar nicht gelungen. Der...

Der Koalitionsvertrag der neuen Regierungskoalition sieht vor, einen eventuellen Zusatzbeitrag defizitärer Krankenkassen nicht wie bisher als pauschale Prämie, sondern einkommensabhängig zu erheben. Die Autoren zeigen auf, in welchem Umfang unterschiedliche Einkommen dadurch belastet werden....