Search for dissertations about: "Determinants of health care expenditure"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words Determinants of health care expenditure.

2. 1. Essays on international comparisons of health care expenditure

   Author : Ulf Gerdtham; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; International comparisons; Health care expenditure; Econometric analysis; cross-national; Determinants of health care expenditure; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

   Abstract : The five papers of this thesis continue the tradition of international comparisons of aggregate health care expenditure. The studies focus on econometric aspects, such as temporal stability of the estimated relationships, their functional form, and discrimination between different regression models. READ MORE

4. 2. Public Access to Surgical Care. Studies on Timeliness, Capacity, Safety and Affordability

   Author : Niclas Rudolfson; Lund Pediatrik; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Global health; global surgery; Surgery; Anaesthesia; Obstetric;

   Abstract : Background. A once commonly held belief was that surgery is too complicated, too expensive, and too ineffectively addressing a too minor proportion of the burden of disease to deserve priority in a setting of scarce healthcare resources in low- and middle-income countries. READ MORE

5. 3. Urban Resilience to Climate Change Shocks and Stresses in Mbale Municipality in Uganda

   Author : George Oriangi; Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Determinants; Precipitation extremes; Demographic; Social networks; Community perceptions; Index;

   Abstract : Climate change shocks and stresses are expected to increasingly affect urban areas in Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA). However, there remain gaps in understanding local precipitation extremes and influential factors that can enhance urban resilience. READ MORE

6. 4. Health care pricing and payment reforms in China : the implications for health service delivery and cost containment

   Author : Qingyue Meng; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : China; financing; pricing policy; payment; exemption program; tuberculosis; hospital performance and charges; drug pricing; rational use of drugs;

   Abstract : China's transition into a market economy has exerted some influence on the health sector in terms of a significant growth of facilities, but it has also produced a range of destabilizing social costs. This thesis analyzes the relations between healthcare pricing and payment reforms and the different delivery aspects such as the exemption program for the poor, public health programs for tuberculosis control and the provision of hospital services. READ MORE