Shuli Brammli-Greenberg: Faculty member, Department of Health Administration and Economics, Braun School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Senior Research Scholar, Smokler Center for Health Policy Research, Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, Jerusalem, Israel.
Lawrence D. Brown: Professor of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States.
Agnès Couffinhal: Senior Economist, The World Bank, Washington DC, United States.
Luca Crivelli: Head, Department of Business Economics, Health and Social Care, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Manno, Switzerland, and Vice-Director Swiss School of Public Health, Professor at Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Italy.
Maria Dolores Montoya Diaz: Professor, School of Economics, Business and Accounting, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Stefanie Ettelt: Associate Professor in Health Policy, Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Denzil G. Fiebig: Professor, School of Economics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Carine Franc: Senior Health Economist Research, INSERM, National Institute for Biomedical and Human Health Research, and Associate Researcher, Institute for Research and Information in Health Economics (IRDES), Paris, France.
Sherry A. Glied: Dean, Professor of Public Service, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, New York, New York, USA.
Kees van Gool: Deputy Director and Professor, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
G. Emmanuel Guindon: Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA)/Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Chair in Health Equity, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI), associate member of the Department of Economics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Noah Haber: Postdoctoral fellow, Meta-research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
Jane Hall: Distinguished Professor of Health Economics, University of Technology Business School, and Director of Strategy, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Jeremiah Hurley: Dean of Social Sciences, Professor at the Department of Economics and the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Naoki Ikegami: Professor Emeritus, Keio University, and adjunct researcher, Japan Medical Association Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
Patrick Jeurissen: Professor in Fiscal Sustainability of Health Care Systems, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Soonman Kwon: Professor of Health Economics and Policy, School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
Yue-Chune Lee: Professor, Institute of Health and Welfare Policy and Masters program on Trans-disciplinary Long-Term Care and Management, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, China.
Dan P. Ly: PhD candidate in Health Policy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussetts, USA.
Hans Maarse: Emeritus Professor of Health Policy Science, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands.
Di McIntyre: Emeritus Professor, Health Economics Unit, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Heather McLeod: Extraordinary Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Nursing, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Philipa Mladovsky: Assistant Professor, Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom.
Elias Mossialos: Co-Director, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, and Brian Abel-Smith Professor of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom.
David Muthaka: Economic Policy Analyst, Kenya and Research Associate at Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), Nairobi, Kenya.
Emma Pitchforth: Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow in Primary Care, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom.
Andres Roman-Urrestarazu: Assistant Professor, International Health Department, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands, and Harkness Fellow 2020–2021, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Anna Sagan: Research Fellow, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, London School of Economics and Political Science, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Wael Fayek Saleh: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Flavia Mori Sarti: Professor, School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Samantha Smith: Research Fellow, Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Sarah Thomson: Senior Health Financing Specialist, WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Strengthening, Barcelona, Spain.
Brian Turner: Lecturer, Department of Economics, Cork University Business School, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Ruth Waitzberg: Research Scholar, Smokler Center for Health Policy Research, Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, Jerusalem, Israel; PhD Fellow, Department of Health Systems Management, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel; and Fellow researcher, Department of Health Care Management, Faculty of Economics and Management, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Book contents
- Private Health Insurance
- European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
- Private Health Insurance History, Politics and Performance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- 1 Why private health insurance?
- 2 Private finance publicly subsidized: the case of Australian health insurance
- 3 Private health insurance in Brazil, Egypt and India
- 4 Private health insurance in Canada
- 5 Regulating private health insurance: France’s attempt at getting it all
- 6 Statutory and private health insurance in Germany and Chile: two stories of coexistence and conflict
- 7 Uncovering the complex role of private health insurance in Ireland
- 8 Integrating public and private insurance in the Israeli health system: an attempt to reconcile conflicting values
- 9 Private health insurance in Japan, Republic of Korea and Taiwan, China
- 10 The role of private health insurance in financing health care in Kenya
- 11 Private health insurance in the Netherlands
- 12 The challenges of pursuing private health insurance in low- and middle-income countries: lessons from South Africa
- 13 Undermining risk pooling by individualizing benefits: the use of medical savings accounts in South Africa
- 14 Consumer-driven health insurance in Switzerland, where politics is governed by federalism and direct democracy
- 15 Regression to the increasingly mean? Private health insurance in the United States of America
- 16 Health savings accounts in the United States of America
- Index
Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2020
- Private Health Insurance
- European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
- Private Health Insurance History, Politics and Performance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- 1 Why private health insurance?
- 2 Private finance publicly subsidized: the case of Australian health insurance
- 3 Private health insurance in Brazil, Egypt and India
- 4 Private health insurance in Canada
- 5 Regulating private health insurance: France’s attempt at getting it all
- 6 Statutory and private health insurance in Germany and Chile: two stories of coexistence and conflict
- 7 Uncovering the complex role of private health insurance in Ireland
- 8 Integrating public and private insurance in the Israeli health system: an attempt to reconcile conflicting values
- 9 Private health insurance in Japan, Republic of Korea and Taiwan, China
- 10 The role of private health insurance in financing health care in Kenya
- 11 Private health insurance in the Netherlands
- 12 The challenges of pursuing private health insurance in low- and middle-income countries: lessons from South Africa
- 13 Undermining risk pooling by individualizing benefits: the use of medical savings accounts in South Africa
- 14 Consumer-driven health insurance in Switzerland, where politics is governed by federalism and direct democracy
- 15 Regression to the increasingly mean? Private health insurance in the United States of America
- 16 Health savings accounts in the United States of America
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Private Health InsuranceHistory, Politics and Performance, pp. xv - xviiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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