Health care financing and insurance options for design

Paolucci, Francesco (2011) Health care financing and insurance options for design. Developments in health economics and public policy, 10 . Springer, London. ISBN 9783642107948

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Abstract

As a contribution to the search for suitable and sustainable solutions to finance rising medical care expenditures, the book proposes a typology of healthcare financing and insurance schemes, based on the dimensions of basic vs. supplementary services and mandatory vs. voluntary coverage, to analyse the design and the complex interactions between various financing and insurance arrangements in several OECD countries. This study provides a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the financial and organisational structures of different countries' healthcare financing and insurance schemes. Its main contributions are the development of a novel and rigorous theoretical framework analysing the economic rationales for the optimal design of healthcare financing and insurance schemes, and an empirical and institutional analysis investigating the consequences for efficiency and affordability of the complex interactions between basic and supplementary sources of financing.

Item Type:	Book
Subjects:	B900 Others in Subjects allied to Medicine L100 Economics
Department:	Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Nursing, Midwifery and Health
Related URLs:	Library Catalogue Library Catalogue
Depositing User:	Ay Okpokam
Date Deposited:	17 Apr 2012 09:46
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2017 11:48
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/6222

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