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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Health Care Financing"”.
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Equity in Health Care Financing in Ghana
… protection against the cost of unforeseen ill health has become a global concern as expressed in the 2005 World Health Assembly resolution (WHA58.33), which urges its member states to "plan the transition to universal coverage of their citizens". The study (the first of kind in Ghana) measured …
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Income redistributive effect of health care financing in Zambia
Equity in health care financing and progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) have increasingly received recognition and growing attention for their potential to improve health outcomes globally. However, most low income countries and in particular those in sub-Saharan Africa which have …
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Rethinking health care financing models: the case of Zimbabwe's health sector
… Zimbabwean context. It outlines the evolution of health systems thinking and health funding models over time to show the history and changing landscape of health care financing and their actors. General consensus is there is need to focus on results of health care investments against a background …
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Decentralised resource allocation and its impact on equitable health care financing
… objectives of this thesis are to: (i) Map the financing of non-hospital primary health care within local government areas in South Africa; analyse the equity of financing health care in relation to need (iii) and document the process followed at provincial and local government level in decision …
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Progressivity and determinants of out-of-pocket health care financing in Zambia
The need for health care financing mechanisms that are progressive in Zambia cannot be over-emphasized. It is necessary that health care financing mechanisms are in such a way that they are related to ability to pay. This is an equity objective. This is the main motivation for this study. It is …
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Health care financing and expenditure in Malawi : do efficiency and equity matter?
… Malawian sector spent about 3.3% of its GNP on health services in 1995/96. The public sector alone spent about 6.2% of its total revenue on health services and this is much high than most other Sub- Saharan African countries (e.g. Zambia, Kenya, Uganda). Despite such high levels of public …
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Three essays on the effects of health policy on health care financing, demand, and provision
… dissertation evaluates the effects of a rural health insurance program in China and tort reforms in the United States. Rural residents’ health status, health-seeking behaviors, financial burden, physicians’ practices, and total hospitalization charges are discussed in the three chapters …
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Health Care Financing Policies in South Korea: The Interaction of National Characteristics and Influences From More Developed Nations
… most developing countries have introduced health care financing programs modelled after developed nations. However, this process of technology transfer has typically not been well thought through, especially in relation to "goodness of fit" with national characteristics and traditions. In …
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Equity in Health Financing: Review of Health Care financing in Four organizations for economic cooperation development (OECD) countries, Canada, The republic of Korea, Mexico and the United Kingdom
Background: The World Health Assembly Resolution in 2005 urges Member States to introduce and/or strengthen universal coverage policy in order to offer financial risk protection (FRP) to households in order to avoid catastrophic health expenditures and impoverishment from seeking care. The other …
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Community health fund (CHF) in Tanzania : predictors of and barriers to enrolment
… countries have not been able to fulfill the health care needs of the poor, and especially the rural population. Budgetary and other resource constraints in the health sector have been the major causes of this failure. Tanzania, like any other poor country is faced with challenges in health …
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Finding sustainable means of financing health care in Ghana, are the people willing to pay?
This study seeks to improve the knowledge of health care financing issues in Ghana as the country seeks a sustainable means of financing health care. To this end an empirical study of Ghanaians' willingness to pay for health services and for health insurance is undertaken thereby applying the …
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Distributional impact of health care finance in South Africa
In South Africa, health care is financed through different mechanisms - allocations from general taxes, private health insurance contributions and direct out-of-pocket payments. These mechanisms impact differently on different households. While there are empirical evidence in developed countries, …
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The utilization of textile crafts in recreation programs of adult day care centers
… existence of recreation programs in adult day care centers, the utilization of textile crafts in them, and the types of textile crafts used. Systematically selected, the sample was taken from the Health Care Financing Administration's Directory of Adult Day Care Centers. A questionnaire …
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Using simulation to evaluate and improve performance of the contact center at Bluecross Blueshield of Tennessee
… of Tennessee is a not-for-profit organization in health care financing with more than 4,300 employees and has a service area covering ninety five counties in Tennessee. The company now has three customer service divisions and the regional division is the biggest customer service division of the …
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The Perspectives of the Woman/Nurse/Executive Working in the Managed Care Environment of Southern California
… the woman/nurse/executive working in the managed care environment of Southern California. This research was extremely timely because (a) Southern California leads the nation in managed care market penetration, (b) changes in health care financing have resulted in a prolific expansion of nurse …
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Critical evaluation of the role of community based health insurance schemes in extending health care coverage to the informal sector in Ghana
… community is how to finance and provide health care for the large informal sector in low and middle income countries. This is as a result of the inability of the traditional tax systems in most of these countries to generate the needed revenue to help meet the health needs of the …
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Health and Poverty: The Issue of Health Inequalities in Ethiopia
… survival, access to and utilisations of child health services among different socio-economic groups in Ethiopia; and identify issues for policies and programmes at national and sub-national levels. This thesis examines the effect of parental socioeconomic status, maternal and delivery care …
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Development and Comparative Predictive Validity of an Outpatient Medication Exposure Measure for Risk Adjustment Using Retrospective Claims Data
… to improve risk-adjusted payments to Medicare Part C and Part D plans. Studies have identified prescription measures that predict future expenditures; however, many are easily manipulable by health plans or practitioners, thus limiting their utility as risk-adjusters. The addition of a …
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Scalling up ART in Rwanda: the financial and economic costs
… on data from 3,310 patients in 3 ART sites. The health care utilisation and cost data obtained, supplemented by appropriate secondary data, were used to estimate the cost per-patient period and lifetime costs. These were then used to model the costs of scaling up and to explore the financial …
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Financial Risk Protection, Decomposition and Inequality Analysis of Household Out-of-Pocket Health Payments
English: This research examines equity trends in financing health care through out-of-pocket payments (OOP) using South African Income and Expenditure Surveys for the periods 1995, 2000, 2005-06 and 2010-11. South Africa is interesting to examine for a variety of reasons. In 1994, South Africa …
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