Public and private roles in health : theory and financing patterns
- Washington : The World Bank, 1996
- 79 p.
- World bank discussion papers ; 339 .
Part 1: Introduction Why the public in health care matters Choices for state intervention A road map Part 2: A conceptual basis for public and private roles The three domains of health care Intervention for public goods in health The public role in low-cost private interventions Risk-sharing for catastrophically costly private goods Market failure and health care needs Dealing with poverty A minimal state role in the absense of poverty How poverty complicates public roles Summary: justifications and risks of state intervention Parte 3: Empirical patterns and explanations Economic issues and health systems objectives Overall health spending and public/private composition What is know about health expenditure How expenditure level and composition are related to income Explaining health outcomes Life expectancy at birth Childhood mortality Summary: expenditure and results Out-of-spending versus private and public insurance The income-related expansion of insurance The two forms of publicly-financed insurance State intervention in the insurance domain Why social insurance is so widespread Non-financial state intervention Part 4: Conclusions The appropriate public role in health What government should not do What government should do How to spend public money on health care
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