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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Healthcare Financing"”.
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A distributional analysis of healthcare financing in a developing country : a Nigerian case study applying a decomposable Gini index
… in the direct absence of significant third-party financing mechanisms and government subsidies, direct purchase of healthcare affects the relative abilities of households to meet their other financial obligations after paying for the cost of health services. In other words, this study aims to …
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Healthcare financing in Malawi and the achievement of universal health coverage : paradoxical difficulties in its realization due to vertical programming and off-budgetary support to the NGO sector
… fragmenting and debilitating the overall healthcare system. The former perpetuates Malawi’s continued dependence on foreign funds and inhibits the government’s ability to achieve targets such as the implementation of universal health coverage. Even though vertical programs have undoubtedly …
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Beyond nature and health: do the benefits of nature extend from health to healthcare spending and opioid-related mortality?
… are in large part determined by health status: healthcare spending levels and opioid-related mortality rates. These studies employed an ecological and cross-sectional study design with counties in the United States with data from federal agencies in a series of geospatial regression models. The …
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Value of contracting as an active purchasing mechanism of healthcare services : a South African case study
… purchasing is a way of ensuring that the healthcare interventions that are provided, improves the health systems responsiveness. Contracting for health services, as a component of strategic purchasing, has been promoted as an important mechanism to improve the efficiency of resource use, …
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What does it mean to have private health insurance coverage?
… 1968). In countries of social security system, healthcare is mostly financed by public-based insurance. However, the private insurance sector has been considered as an alternative source of healthcare financing and a tool to enhance system capacity. Although it constitutes only a small share of …
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Budgeting for cyclicality in a healthcare setting – accounting for economic shocks in the budgetary process
… budgeting process is a critical component of any healthcare system’s response to economic shocks. Recent events, such as the global financial crisis or the Covid-19 pandemic, have shown that the budgetary response is often insufficient to maintain a consistent level of service. This dissertation …
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The perceptions of private health insurance administrator senior managers about the National Health Insurance (NHI) in South Africa, Cape Town
… In South Africa, a strong, robust private healthcare sector co-exists alongside the public health sector and consumes a disproportionate amount of healthcare; the healthcare sector co-exists the public health sector and consumes a disproportionate amount of healthcare resources it serves. …