This paper presents the results of a ten-country comparative study of health care financing systems and their progressivity characteristics. It distinguishes between the tax-financed systems of Denmark, Portugal and the U.K., the social insurance systems of France, the Netherlands and Spain, and the predominantly private systems of Switzerland and the U.S. It concludes that tax-financed systems...

The past decade has recorded remarkable interest in socioeconomic inequalities in health care. A multivariate analysis of the World Health Survey data for Burkina Faso was conducted using STATA. This included questions on household economic factors, perceived need, and access to health care. Poverty was defined using Principal Components Analysis. There was no significant difference in perceive...

1 Department of Health Economics and Social Security, Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum, Krakow, Poland, 2 Department of Health Services Research, CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands, 3 T...

We estimate the distributional incidence of health care financing in 13 Asian territories that account for 55% of the Asian population. In all territories, higher-income households contribute more to the financing of health care. The better-off contribute more as a proportion of ability to pay in most low- and lower-middle-income territories. Health care financing is slightly regressive in thre...

Financing Long-Term Care Paul Plant J. Merrill, A test of our society: how and for whom we finance long term care. Inquiry, 29, (1992), 176-87. A major policy area to be faced by the incoming Clinton administration in the United States is the future funding and provision of health care across the country. Problems of rising health care expenditures, coupled with poor access to services by large...

The United States is facing a health care crisis with the number of uninsured Americans exceeding 46 million and health care premiums and overall costs increasing at 3 to 4 times the rate of inflation. Proposed solutions include continuing managed care, moving to a single-payer financing system with universal coverage, and replacing traditional health plans with high-deductible policies that al...

The development of a health-care system depends on a country’s economic, political, social and cultural background. Because of China’s transformation over the last 20 years from a socialist economy to a market economy, China’s healthcare services have been converted from social and public goods to market goods without government planning or intervention. Liu’s article (1) in this issue clearly ...

explanation of the insightful family concept in care of the elderly    pouladi sh [1] , anoosheh m [2] *, kazemnejad a [3] , zareian a [4]     received: 31 may , 2013 accepted: 3 aug , 2013    abstract  background & aims : the elderly care in families with social problems and hardships indicate the insight of family members in elderly care. this study aims to explain the concept of family insig...

conclusions in this study, a low albumin level (≤ 3 mg/dl) was an indicator of nutritional status. patients’ albumin levels, bmi, nutritional status, apache ii score, and sofa score were associated with mortality. age in itself did not predict mortality in the elderly. objectives in this study, the effect of body mass index (bmi) and albumin values at first admission to the icu on the course an...

background: due to increasing life expectancy and declining fertility rates, the population over the age of 60 in developed and developing countries is increasing. this matter draws attention toward the improvement of the health of the elderly and consideration of the health and treatment needs of this important group of human society. the aim of this study was to determine the effects of integ...