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Health, Knowledge and the Demand for Medical Care
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 171

Health, Knowledge and the Demand for Medical Care

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1987
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data

Have gaps in health outcomes between the poor and better off grown? Are they larger in one country than another? Are health sector subsidies more equally distributed in some countries than others? Are health care payments more progressive in one health care financing system than another? What are catastrophic payments and how can they be measured? How far do health care payments impoverish households? Answering questions such as these requires quantitative analysis. This in turn depends on a clear understanding of how to measure key variables in the analysis, such as health outcomes, health expenditures, need, and living standards. It also requires set quantitative methods for measuring ineq...

Equity in the Finance and Delivery of Health Care
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 450

Equity in the Finance and Delivery of Health Care

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

Presents the results of research which has been facilitated by funding from the European Community and hopes to represent a significant contribution to knowledge about equity in the finance and delivery of health care in 10 countries.

Invertir En Salud
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Invertir En Salud

Esta publicacion agrupa los informes finales de tres proyectos de investigacion en los que se exploraron los efectos de la inversion en salud sobre el crecimiento economico, la productividad de la familia y el alivio de la pobreza en America Latina y el C

Innovations in Health Care Financing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Innovations in Health Care Financing

Spanish edition. World Bank Technical Paper No. 345S. This report examines specific policies for achieving sustainable development of the mining industry in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. The report highlights the importance of the mining sector to national economies of the region and discusses World Bank assistance in formulating policy. Also available in English: (ISBN 0-8213-3816-1) Stock no. 13816.

Financing Health Care in East Asia and the Pacific
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

Financing Health Care in East Asia and the Pacific

East Asian and Pacific countries are growing rapidly. They need high quality, well-funded health systems to underpin their population growth and assure continued productivity and economic growth. But countries will need to spend wisely, using modern techniques of insurance and strategic contracting with providers.

Reaching the Poor with Health, Nutrition, and Population Services
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Reaching the Poor with Health, Nutrition, and Population Services

This volume presents eleven case studies that document how well or poorly health, nutrition, and population programs have reached disadvantaged groups in the countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America where they were undertaken. The studies were commissioned by the Reaching the Poor Program, undertaken by the Word Bank in cooperation with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Dutch and Swedish governments, in an effort to find better ways of ensuring that health, nutrition, and population programs benefit the neediest. These case studies, reinforced by other material gathered by the.

Healthy Democracies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Healthy Democracies

Do the pressures of economic globalization undermine the welfare state? Contrary to the expectations of many analysts, Taiwan and South Korea have embarked on a new trajectory, toward a strengthened welfare state and universal inclusion. In Healthy Democracies, Joseph Wong offers a political explanation for health care reform in these two countries. He focuses specifically on the ways in which democratic change in Taiwan and South Korea altered the incentives and ultimately the decisions of policymakers and social policy activists in contemporary health care debates.Wong uses extensive field research and interviews to explore both similarities and subtle differences in the processes of polit...

Inequalities in Health in Developing Countries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 46

Inequalities in Health in Developing Countries

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Handbook of Health Economics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1138

Handbook of Health Economics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-07-19
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  • Publisher: Elsevier

What new theories, evidence, and policies have shaped health economics in the 21st century? Editors Mark Pauly, Thomas McGuire, and Pedro Pita Barros assemble the expertise of leading authorities in this survey of substantive issues. In 16 chapters they cover recent developments in health economics, from medical spending growth to the demand for health care, the markets for pharmaceutical products, the medical workforce, and equity in health and health care. Its global perspective, including an emphasis on low and middle-income countries, will result in the same high citations that made Volume 1 (2000) a foundational text. Presents coherent summaries of major subjects and methodologies, marking important advances and revisions. Serves as a frequently used non-journal reference. Introduces non-economists to the best research in health economics.