Content Mexico’s Seguro Popular has contributed towards universal financial risk protection. However, coverage is low for chronic diseases, with only 26% and 30% of affiliate adult men and women, respectively, having access to preventive care. The state of Hidalgo’s Seguro Popular affiliating 3.4 million people introduced a results-based financial incentive scheme to improve performance of key ...

background and objectives: nowadays, the use of educational models to determine the causes of rejection of health-related behaviors has been on theincrease. health belief model is one of the models during the past years has been considered. therefore, the aim of this study was to measure health belief model constructs in preventive behavior about self-medication in pregnant women in the city of...

The Effect of Sanctions on the Job Finding Rate: Evidence from Denmark This paper investigates the effect of sanctions of unemployment insurance benefits on the exit rate from unemployment for a sample of Danish unemployed. According to the findings are that even moderate sanctions have rather large effects. For both males and females the exit rate increases by more than 50% following impositio...

Our paper provides an explanation why cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) provisions and their characteristics vary widely across U.S. industries. We develop models of optimal risk sharing between a firm and union to investigate the determinants of a number of contract characteristics. These include the presence and degree of wage indexing, the magnitude of deferred noncontingent wage increases, c...

The grand challenge in global health is the inequality in mortality and life expectancy between countries and within countries. According to Global Health 2035, the Lancet Commission celebrating the 20th anniversary of the World Development Report (WDR) of 1993, the world now has the unique opportunity to achieve a grand convergence in global mortality within a generation. This article comments...

Previous research on unemployment insurance (UI) has emphasized its disincentive effects for labor supply, but has largely ignored the insurance benefits provided by this public program. This paper directly assesses the consumption smoothing benefits of UI using two different sources of consumption data, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX). The fo...

OBJECTIVE To analyze evolution of the health technology assessment (HTA) at the national level in South Korea. METHODS Analysis of public documents, personal communication, and literative review. RESULTS HTA in South Korea has been developed since 1990s, first introduced by academia and institutionalized within the National Health Insurance (NHI). Rapidly increasing expenditure had been a c...

functional foods have a large and growing global market and are regarded as one of the most actively researched areas of food science. the growth in popularity of functional foods is attributed to the phenomena of consumer health care, increasing health awareness and knowledge in the many benefits of functional foods. common benefits of functional foods include reduction of disease, health main...

Much of the existing literature on the financial protection of health insurance focuses on the impact of insurance status on total out-of-pocket expenditure on all sorts of care sought, regardless of whether the insured patients use their health insurance cards. Using Vietnam's 2006 Household Living Standard Survey data and an appropriate multivariate regression model, this article assesses the...

--Dealth status and health care during the period of withdrawal from the labor force are included by the Social b’ecurity Admdniatration tn it8 study of the retirement process. Men and nonmarried women aged 58-63 at the outset of the survey decade had yet to enroll in Medicare, and most u3ere covered by private health insurance. As means of payment for care, health insurance benefits were repor...