Private Health Insurance
An Empirical Study on Private Health Insurance in Rural Areas of India: Challenges and Opportunities
... the private health insurance ...Independent insurance agents typically represent a number of insurance companies, or "carriers", and sell the products that most appropriately ...
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The Demand for Private Health Insurance in Malawi
... for private health insurance among formal sector employees in Malawi, a poor country with heavy pressure on under-funded free government health ...from private fee-charging ...
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Risk selection into supplemental private health insurance in China
... supplemental private health insurance ...The private insurers in China were not prohibited from discrimination against pre-existing conditions and did not guarantee ongoing ...China ...
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Effect of having private health insurance on the use of health care services: the case of Spain
... relevant health status is observed in social ...of health indicators based on the results ob- tained by Urbanos et ...out private health insurance on health status is a gradual ...
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Private Health Insurance of Chronically III Children
... Data were collected concerning private health insurance coverage of services needed by chronically ill children, including basic medical care services, ancillary therapies, mental health[r] ...
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Is there a 'secession of the wealthy'? Private health insurance uptake and National Health System support
... Spanish Insurance Law defines PHI – so called ‘Seguro de Asistencia Sanitaria’ - as an insurance that “provides to the insured with the medical, hospital and surgery care, with own staff of doctors whereby ...
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Determinants of self rated private health insurance coverage in Jamaica
... on private health insurance or health insurance in the Caribbean, and in particular Jamaica, has been substantially on 1) population ...care–i.e. health economics, and 4) ...
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Private health insurance market in India: current trends and policy implications
... Permanent repository link: http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/5401/ Link to published version: Copyright and reuse: City Research Online aims to make research outputs of City, University of Lo[r] ...
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The effect of cost sharing in private health insurance on the utilization of health care services between private insurance purchasers and non purchasers: a study of the Korean health panel survey (2008–2012)
... on health care utilization by type of health insurance (Medical Aid, ...National Health Insurance sys- ...affected health care utilization by individuals with relatively low ...
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Social and Demographic Consequences of Health insurance
... of health policy on health, but they often neglect that policies are intricately connected to marriage, family structure, and social ...of health insurance policies in the United ...gain ...
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Who Pays - Who Benefits - Unfairness in American Health Care
... health care has long fallen on lower- and mid- dle-income payers of private health insurance premiums.' One increasingly recognized problem is that health care prices[r] ...
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The provision of public universal health insurance: impacts on private insurance, asset holdings and welfare
... universal health in- surance (UHI) in an environment with household heterogeneity and financial mar- ket ...for private health insurance (PHI) purchases when UHI is introduced depend on the ...
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Determinants of Health Care Seeking Behavior: Does Insurance Ownership Matters?
... of health insurance on access to the private health care facilities has an important policy ...its health care financing system to ensure integrated health care delivery ...
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Changing World of Health Care Finance Private and Social Health Insurance
... public health financing or private insurance is hardly available to countries like India because of their governments’ limited ability to marshal sufficient resources to finance health ...
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National Intelligence and Private Health Expenditure: Do High IQ Societies Spend More on Health Insurance?
... Private health insurance is generally expensive, and thus, is undertaken mostly by people with higher income rather than the poor (Gertler & Sturm, 1997; Sekhri & Savedoff, ...on ...
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Health Insurance in Latvia - Public Services and Private Undertakings
... to health care are not on basis on competition law, offering it as public services ...hand, health insurance provided by private insurance undertakings covers significant part of ...
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Determinants of out-of-pocket health expenditure on children: an analysis of the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort
... child health status reported by the mother (children were considered healthy when they reported either “good,” “very good,” or “excellent” health), and having private health insurance; ...
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Striving towards integrated people-centred health services: reflections on the Australian experience
... people‐centred health services in Australia is the lack of accountability of private hospitals, private specialists and private insurance funds for the quality of private ...
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Chisels or screwdrivers? A critique of the NERA proposals for the reform of the NHS
... I prefer the UK Cochrane Centre to competitive insurance as a means of securing greater efficiency, public purchasing health authorities to private health insurers as a means of revealin[r] ...
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Something old or something new? Social health insurance in Ghana
... One of the equity concerns relating to the NHIS is how it has affected the non-insured. When a new Diagnosis- Related Group (DRG) tariff was introduced in 2008 it increased 'cash and carry' prices as much as those paid ...
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