Ulf Gerdtham
Professor
Equity in the finance of health care : Some further international comparisons
Author
Summary, in English
This paper presents further international comparisons of progressivity of health care financing systems. The paper builds on the work of Wagstaff et al. [Wagstaff, A., van Doorslaer E., et al., 1992. Equity in the finance of health care: some international comparisons, Journal of Health Economics 11, pp. 361-387] but extends it in a number of directions: we modify the methodology used there and achieve a higher degree of cross-country comparability in variable definitions; we update and extend the cross- section of countries; and we present evidence on trends in financing mixes and progressivity.
Publishing year
1999-06-01
Language
English
Pages
263-290
Publication/Series
Journal of Health Economics
Volume
18
Issue
3
Document type
Journal article review
Publisher
Elsevier
Topic
- Economics
Keywords
- Health care financing
- Progressivity
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0167-6296