Using data from Jamaica, we estimate models of the demand for medical care. We find that insurance does induce individuals to opt out of the public sector in favor of the higher-quality private sector, thereby reducing total public expenditures on health care. Moreover, since insurance is ...
Paul Gertler ,Roland Sturm, Private health insurance and public expenditures in Jamaica, Journal of Econometrics, Volume 77, Issue 1, March 1997, Pages 237-257Gertler, P., and Sturm, R. (1997), "Private Health Insurance and Public Expenditures in Jamaica," Journal of Econometrics, 77, 237-...
Older men's health status is of increasing concern given the rates of prostate cancer, genitourinary disorders and risk factors such as smoking in earlier life. Insights from a developing country: self-reported health status of elderly men (60 years and over) in Jamaica The health status of a...
Jamaica became a British colony in 1655. For the next two centuries, Jamaica’s incorporation into the British Empire was as the crown jewel, the site of a very successful sugar and slavery operation. After the abolition of slavery in 1838, Jamaica became a backwater filled with the broken ...
and 1096 adults, respectively, the European Quality of Life Surveys (EQLS) of 2007 and 2016 were also used as data sources. Economic crisis was expressed with a dummy variable: (1) 0: 2007, and (2) 1: 2016. Difficulty in responding to healthcare costs was regressed on survey year and...
The survey content covers the basic demographic characteristics, health conditions and functions, medical insurance, work and retirement, family situation, and other information, including rich information about individual and community characteristics. The relationship between the neighborhood effect and the ...
In the process of comprehensively promoting the construction of a multi-level medical security system in China, it is very important to clarify the impact of commercial health insurance. In order to better promote the development of comm... T Zhao,R Wanyan,L Suo - 《International Journal of ...
[13]. Studies have shown that poverty, low income, unemployment, and reduced access to public health insurance not only significantly increase mental health disorders [21,22]. And suffering neighborhood deprivation in the course of life has an impact on one's health and well-being [23]. In ...
(n = 6). In addition, two studies included nationwide samples, one aimed to assess change in dental service use after implementing the national health insurance covering dental services to older population whereas the other study assessed the usefulness of practical oral care video among the ...
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