Published in The European Journal of Health Economics
Similarly to other countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Hungary has witnessed massive diffusion of healthcare technology such as drugs and medical devices since 1990. While substantial new pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and procedures have been liberalized, there has been no proper evaluation or training in their use. Healthcare providers ha...
BV UNIFESP: Teses e dissertações
Published in International Journal for Equity in Health
BackgroundOut-of-pocket (OOP) payment on healthcare is dominant mode of financing in developing countries. In Pakistan it is 67% of total expenditure on healthcare. Analysis of determinants of OOP health expenditure is a key aspect of equity in healthcare financing. It helps to formulate an effective health policy. Evidence on OOP in Pakistan is sp...
Published in Health policy
The objective of this paper is to assess the extent of catastrophic healthcare expenditure, which can lead to impoverishment, even in a country with a National Health Service, such as Portugal. The level of catastrophic healthcare expenditure will be identified before the determinants of these catastrophic payments are analyzed. Afterwards, the eff...
Published in Health policy
Croatia's most recent reform of the healthcare system was implemented in 2008. The aim of the reform was to enhance financial stability of the system by introducing additional sources of financing, as well as increase the efficiency of the system by reducing sick pay transfers to households, rationalising spending on pharmaceuticals, restructuring ...
Published in Health Economics Review
BackgroundThe reliance on out-of-pocket payments for health services leads to a catastrophic burden for many households in Bangladesh. The World Health Organization suggests that risk-pooling mechanisms should be used for financing healthcare. Like many low-income countries (LIC), a large share of employment in Bangladesh is in the informal sector ...
Published in Encyclopedia of Health Economics
A well-functioning pharmaceutical subsystem is a critical component of the overall health system and is key to the health system's access, equity, and efficiency. However, consistent access to pharmaceuticals remains a challenge in many national health systems. This article reviews the key characteristics of the pharmaceutical subsystem within the ...
Published in The American Journal of Surgery
Without fundamental changes healthcare costs will continue to accelerate faster than the gross domestic product while consuming larger portions of individual and corporate incomes. Although the problems are widely acknowledged, we believe that there is an underappreciated defect driving these undesirable events. The essence of that defect is that t...
Published in Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde
ZielsetzungDie vorliegende Arbeit untersucht, ob in der Kinder- und Jugendmedizin Hinweise für eine Rationierung von Versorgungsleistungen vorliegen, und, falls ja, ob sich diese quantifizieren lassen.MethodikEs wurden Tiefeninterviews mit einer ausgewählten Gruppe pädiatrischer Experten geführt. Dabei sollte auch geprüft werden, ob der methodische...
Published in BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundThe United States’ multiple-payer health care system requires substantial effort and costs for administration, with billing and insurance-related (BIR) activities comprising a large but incompletely characterized proportion. A number of studies have quantified BIR costs for specific health care sectors, using micro-costing techniques. How...
