This paper uses two methods to compare the impact of health care payments under
insurance and user fees. Concentration indices for insured and uninsured groups are …

Abstract The Ghanaian National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was introduced to
provide access to adequate health care regardless of ability to pay. By law the NHIS is …

Background Equitable health financing is crucial to attaining universal health coverage
(UHC). Health financing, a major focus of the National Health Insurance in South Africa, can …

We used five National Health Surveys (NHSs) in order to measure horizontal inequity (equal
health care for equal need) in health-care utilization in Australia over five time points from …

Little is known about health system equity in Tanzania, whether in terms of distribution of the
health care financing burden or distribution of health care benefits. This study undertook a …

The Australian universal healthcare system aims to ensure affordable and equitable use of
healthcare services based on individual health needs. This paper presents empirical …

Background Health-care financing should be equitable. In many developing countries such
as Kenya, changes to health-care financing systems are being implemented as a means of …

This paper examines the equality of utilization for equal need and equity of out-of-pocket
expenditure for health services in a large urban area in Thailand. Data from a household …

This paper exploited five different data sets of the national household survey in pre-(years
2000 and 2001) and post-(years 2002 and 2004) universal health care coverage (UC) …

BACKGROUND: This study aims to assess the impact of being insured by micro-health
insurance units (MIUs) on equality of access to health care among groups with inequitable …