Introduction Zimbabwe has one of the highest rates of private health insurance (PHI)
expenditures as a share of total health expenditures in the world. The perfomamce of PHI …

This paper explores the major factors underpinning the expansion in medicine use over
recent decades, using England as an example. It begins by constructing a …

Systematically updated throughout, the 6th edition of this leading text takes the story of
health policy to the end of the Blair era and into the early years of the Brown premiership. It …

This report provides an overview and analysis of markets for private health insurance (PHI)
in the European Union (EU). Part 1 describes the different roles PHI plays in relation to …

A core principle of the welfare state is that everyone pays taxes or contributions in exchange
for universal insurance against social risks such as sickness, old age, unemployment, and …

The health and care sector plays a valuable role in improving population health and societal
wellbeing, protecting people from the financial consequences of illness, reducing health and …

Significant transformations of the health care services sector over the past three decades
have seen an increasing reliance on the private provision of health care services mediated …

Objective: To determine whether treatment in a private versus public hospital was an
independent predictor of survival outcomes in patients with colorectal cancer. Design …

We test for asymmetric information in the UK private health insurance (PHI) market. In
contrast to earlier research that considers either a purely private system or one where …

Background: The importance of health insurance to individual and society at large cannot be
overemphasized. It plays a critical role through enabling access to health care services and …