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Are patient charges an effective policy tool? Review of theoretical and empirical evidence

Publication date: 2010

Public Health and Governance, 2010, Volume 8, Issue 1, pp. 29 - 36

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Milena Pavlova
Department of Health Services Research; CAPHRI, Maastricht University Medical Center; Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands / Top Institute Evidence-Based Education Research (TIER), Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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Marzena Tambor
Institute of Public Health Faculty of Health Sciences Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków
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Godefridus G. van Merode
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Wim Groot
Department of Health Services Research; CAPHRI, Maastricht University Medical Center; Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands / Top Institute Evidence-Based Education Research (TIER), Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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Are patient charges an effective policy tool? Review of theoretical and empirical evidence

Abstract

Policy-makers assign various objectives to the implementation of patient charges for public health care services. These charges impose prices on health care consumption and as such, they are expected to affect the quantities of health care service demanded, and to generate revenues. The actual ability of patient charges to achieve these objectives depends to a great extent on the patient payment mechanism implemented in a country, as well as on the health care system and context-specific factors. This paper reviews and discusses the theoretical and empirical evidence on the effectiveness of patient payment policies. The paper suggests that patient charges can be a successful policy tool for controlling the pattern of health care utilisation and improving the quality of health care provision. However, an additional condition for success is the appropriateness of the design of patient charges with respect to efficiency and equity in the public health care sector

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Information: Public Health and Governance, 2010, Volume 8, Issue 1, pp. 29 - 36

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

Are patient charges an effective policy tool? Review of theoretical and empirical evidence

English:

Are patient charges an effective policy tool? Review of theoretical and empirical evidence

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6082-8446

Milena Pavlova
Department of Health Services Research; CAPHRI, Maastricht University Medical Center; Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands / Top Institute Evidence-Based Education Research (TIER), Maastricht University, The Netherlands
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6082-8446 Orcid
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Department of Health Services Research; CAPHRI, Maastricht University Medical Center; Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands / Top Institute Evidence-Based Education Research (TIER), Maastricht University, The Netherlands

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7970-6919

Marzena Tambor
Institute of Public Health Faculty of Health Sciences Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7970-6919 Orcid
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Institute of Public Health Faculty of Health Sciences Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1035-5916

Wim Groot
Department of Health Services Research; CAPHRI, Maastricht University Medical Center; Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands / Top Institute Evidence-Based Education Research (TIER), Maastricht University, The Netherlands
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1035-5916 Orcid
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Department of Health Services Research; CAPHRI, Maastricht University Medical Center; Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands / Top Institute Evidence-Based Education Research (TIER), Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Published at: 2010

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Marzena Tambor (Author) - 25%
Godefridus G. van Merode (Author) - 25%
Wim Groot (Author) - 25%

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