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Health Status Indicators. --- Health Services --- Health Expenditures --- Health status indicators --- Medical care --- Medical policy --- Medical care, Cost of --- Indicateurs de santé --- Soins médicaux --- Politique sanitaire --- utilization. --- statistics & numerical data. --- Periodicals --- Utilization --- Statistics --- Periodicals. --- Utilisation --- Périodiques --- Statistiques --- Coût

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This book presents research findings on India's major central and state government-sponsored health insurance schemes (GSHISs). The analysis centers on the GSHISs launched since 2007. These schemes targeted poor populations, aiming to provide financial protection against catastrophic health shocks, defined in terms of inpatient care. Focus is on two lines of inquiry. The first involves institutional and "operational" opportunities and challenges regarding schemes' design features, governance arrangements, financial flows, cost-containment mechanisms, underlying stakeholder incentives, informat

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It is generally accepted that government health expenditures should disproportionately benefit the poor. And yet in most developing countries the opposite is the case. This paper examines the implications of a central assumption of benefit incidence analysis, namely that the unit cost of a government-provided service bears no relation to the out-of-pocket payments paid by the patient. It argues that a more plausible assumption is that larger out-of-pocket payments for a given unit of utilization reflect more (or more costly) services being delivered. The paper compares - theoretically and empirically - the standard constant-cost assumption with two alternatives, namely that the cost of care in a specific episode of utilization is (a) proportional to or (b) linearly related to the amount of money paid out-of-pocket by the patient. An interesting special case of the linear relationship is where subsidies are focused on a basic unit of care and additional costs are met dollar-for-dollar by additional fees. The paper shows that if fees are more pro-rich than utilization, government spending will be least pro-rich under the constant-cost assumption and most pro-rich under the proportionality assumption. The linear assumption results in a concentration index for subsidies that lies between these two extremes. These results are borne out in an analysis of the incidence of government health spending in Vietnam (a country where fees are more pro-rich than utilization); indeed, under the constant-cost assumption, subsidies are pro-poor while they are pro-rich under the proportionality assumption. The paper also considers the biases created by not allowing for insurance reimbursements.

Clinics --- Economic Theory & Research --- Health --- Health expenditures --- Health Monitoring & Evaluation --- Health services --- Health systems --- Health Systems Development & Reform --- Hospitals --- Human development --- Incidence analysis --- Income --- Inpatient care --- Insurance --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Medicines --- Nutrition and Population --- Outpatient care --- Patient --- Patients --- Primary health care --- Public health --- Public Sector Development --- Public Sector Management and Reform --- School health --- School health care --- Social services --- Urban Development --- Urban Economics --- Workers

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Financial protection against the cost of illness and inclusion of vulnerable groups - will require better mobilization and use of private means. Private voluntary health insurance already plays an important role in mobilizing additional resources to the health sector and protecting against the catastrophic cost of illness in some countries. This review explores the context under which private voluntary health insurance could contribute to an improvement in the sustainability of the health sector and financial protection in other countries.

Insurance, Health --- Health Expenditures. --- Models, Econometric. --- Private Sector. --- World Health. --- Health insurance --- Assurance-maladie --- economics. --- Economic aspects --- Aspect économique --- Economics. --- Global Health. --- Aspect économique --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Health plans, Prepaid --- Medical care, Prepaid --- Medical insurance --- Prepaid health plans --- Prepaid medical care --- Sickness insurance --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Insurance --- Ambulance service --- Health care reform --- Home care services --- Hospitals --- Medically uninsured persons --- Surgical clinics --- Prospective payment --- Emergency services --- Outpatient services --- Rehabilitation services

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Electronic books. -- local. --- Medical care, Cost of -- United States. --- Medical care, Cost of --- Delivery of Health Care --- Environment and Public Health --- Social Sciences --- Health Planning --- North America --- Costs and Cost Analysis --- Medicine --- Health --- Financial Management --- Americas --- Population Characteristics --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Health Care --- Health Occupations --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Geographic Locations --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Geographicals --- Public Health --- Economics --- United States --- National Health Programs --- Health Expenditures --- Accounting --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Medical Economics