Background Medicare Advantage (MA) penetration rates have shown an increase in rural areas in the past decade, increasing the bargaining power of MA plans relative to rural hospitals. We study the effect that this increase has had in the revenue of rural hospitals through reductions in the...

Patient moral hazard is a significant issue in healthcare system reform and a prominent factor affecting the efficiency of healthcare services in China. Based on the consolidation of urban and rural resident health insurance, this paper employs a staggered DID model to analyze the impact of...

China's primary healthcare (PHC) system, together with rural healthcare services, remains the Achilles' heel in the national healthcare system. Healthcare workers, specifically village doctors, are an integral part of the healthcare system. Using the two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) and...

This paper investigates the effects of alleviating remoteness constraints on access to quality maternal and newborn health care. Using a cluster-randomized controlled trial, we provided transportation vouchers to impoverished pregnant women residing in remote Nicaraguan villages located...

In 2003, China launched the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS), a public healthcare plan targeting rural households. While the literature mostly considers the impact of NCMS coverage on health outcomes, we investigate potential impacts on labor supply and household savings levels. To mitigate...

Healthcare payment systems influence to a great extent the hospitals' investment decision and thereby, their ability to treat patients. A payment system is optimal provided it incentivises hospitals to undertake an investment level that is appropriate, when considering treatment costs, patients'...

We assess the short-term impacts of the Doctors-to-the-Barrios (DTTB), a national physician deployment program in the Philippines that augments the supply of rural healthcare workers in underserved areas, on several health sector outcomes. Using regression discontinuity design, we find that the...

Transforming dental health in rural communities: digital dentistry provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the field of digital dentistry for rural and remote areas for advancing understanding of digital technologies in these areas. It further...

Low-income people, especially the rural poor in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), have limited access to healthcare when they are sick. To address this issue, the governments of LMICs have initiated health insurance programs that target these poor populations. However, the health...

Health systems globally face increasing morbidity and mortality from chronic diseases, yet many - especially in low- and middle-income countries - lack strong chronic disease management in primary health care (PHC). We provide evidence on China’s efforts to promote PHC management using unique...

Low-income people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have limited access to healthcare when they are sick. To address this issue, the governments of LMICs have initiated health insurance programs that target these poor populations. However, the health benefits these programs provide are...

This study contributes to the current understanding of what drives physicians to practice in rural areas by analyzing new, comprehensive survey data of practicing physicians in the United States. This research confirmed that rural origin is an important and reliable predictor for rural practice...

Rural households in developing countries have limited capacity to cope with and manage shocks, thereby resulting in chronic poverty, indebtedness, and a decline in overall well-being. Therefore, this study analyzes the effects of health shocks on overindebtedness in rural Viet Nam using four...

This paper studies the local economic impacts of rural hospital closures in the United States. The analysis begins with a difference-in-differences approach using county-by-year panel data on all hospital closures from 2003 through the first half of 2017. The results indicate that closures...

Purpose: The objective of this paper is to propose a conceptual framework that will assess the scope of social business to collaborate with government through Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model in the rural health care system.Design/methodology/approach: This work is a conceptual paper. The...

The present paper deals with the performance of Rajiv Aarogyasri on rural health care in Telangana with special reference to Warangal district. The present paper is divided into three sections. Section-I deals with the conceptualization of the Rajiv Aarogyasri and its essential features....

Maternal and newborn health in rural America suffers from a lack of obstetrical care, which is currently at crisis levels. Many state-level public policies have exacerbated or even initiated barriers to quality and access in rural healthcare. Such policies include certificate-of-need (CON) laws,...

Transport connectivity in Cambodia is challenged by its geography and exposure to recurrent flooding. Flood events create severe disruptions in segments of the transport network that undermine access to health, education, and work opportunities as well as create barriers to economic growth....

In recent years, Chinese local governments have experimented with integrating the social health insurance system segmented between rural and urban areas to unify the administration, policy, and funds of various health insurance programs. In this study, we take advantage of the staggered...

Three main issues are increasingly characterising Rural Areas in developed countries: aging population, difficulties in accessing services, and gender inequalities in entering the labour market. Although aging can be considered a general trend in Italy, in certain areas it has become a chronic...

Health systems globally face increasing morbidity and mortality from chronic disease, yet many--especially in low- and middle-income countries--lack strong primary care. We analyze China's efforts to promote primary care management for insured rural Chinese with chronic disease, analyzing unique...

Background: The cost of rural health continues to be high in the United States despite an overall improvement in national health insurance enrolment. Stakeholder’s perception of adverse selection remains a paramount culprit in the challenges of rural insurance markets. Risk attitude has been...