Rich-poor differences in health care financing. In: Preker A, Carrin G, eds. Health financing for poor people: resource mobilization and risk-sharing. Washington, DC, The World Bank, 2004.Alexander S. Preker,Guy Carrin,David Dror,Melitta Jakab,William C. Hsiao,Dyna Arhin-Tenkorang.Rich-Poor...
While each medical tourist leaving the country to seek treatment overseas spends on average $20,000 each year, Zimbabwe’s own spending on healthcare was just $21 per citizen in 2020 (nearly 1,000 times lower) – showing the stark inequality in healthcare between rich and poor. Health...
This report provides estimates of health care expenditures for poor, near poor, and low income people in the United States; i.e., people whose income is less than 200 percent of the FederalPoverty Line. It highlights the characteristics of poor or near poor and low income persons and their...
Healthcare models which recognize the equity principle have had to confront the challenge of providing healthcare for the poor and dispossessed. Healthcare premised on "rights" strives to remove/ reduce barriers to access by a complete waiver of all fees in the public sector or various other su...
…Its six pillars – that it is “free” at the point of use, the full state ownership of hospitals, its complete dependence on taxpayer funding, its supposed culture of altruism, its nature as a shared moral project uniting rich and poor, and its centrally planned workforce – are the ...
Sir.—Recently, the issue of providing primary health care for poor and uninsured or underinsured patients has received much attention in the medical literature. According to an Index Medicus search, in 1990 alone, there were 117 articles published in medical journals regarding health care for these...
2008. Rich doctors and poor patients: Market failure and health care systems in developing countries. Journal of Contemporary Asia 38:259-76.Ghosh BN. Rich doctors and poor patients: market failure and health care systems in developing countries . J Contemp Asia 2008; 38 :259–76....
The overall magnitude, trends and incidence of poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean are discussed, and an overall evaluation of health care, the poor's access to health services, and the costs and financing of health care in the region is provided. In-depth analyses of health care prot...
Discussion The main findings are that a considerable proportion of the refugees have limited CHL, have reported poor health or that they have refrained from seeking healthcare, and that limited CHL was associated with both having reported poor health and having refrained from seeking healthcare. ...
Outing the Invisible Poor: Why Economic Justice and Access to Health Care is an LGBT Issue An afterword to the article "Outing the Invisible Poor: Why Economic Justice and Access to Health Care is an LGBT Issue," which appeared in Volume XVII Number issue of the "Georgetown Journal on ...