Health economics

Ralph F. Weber (born October 26, 1961) is a Canadian philanthropic entrepreneur, writer, Accredited Estate Planner, Certified Financial Planner, Registered Employee Benefits Consultant, Chartered Life Underwriter, and Chartered Financial Consultant residing in the United States who participated in a health care forum with presidential hopeful, Rudy Giuliani, during his Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign, 2008 in 2006.

URAC is a non-profit organization that helps promote health care quality through the accreditation of organizations involved in medical care services.

Health equity refers to the study and causes of differences in the quality of health and healthcare across different populations.

National health insurance (NHI) – sometimes called statutory health insurance (SHI) – is a legally enforced scheme of health insurance that insures a national population against the costs of health care.

Health policy can be defined as the "decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific healthcare goals within a society.

The Oregon health insurance experiment (sometimes abbreviated OHIE) was a research study looking at the effects of the 2008 Medicaid expansion in the U.

Socialized medicine is a term used to describe and discuss systems of universal health care: medical and hospital care for all at a nominal cost by means of government regulation of health care and subsidies derived from taxation.

Single-payer healthcare is a system in which the state, rather than private insurers, pays for all healthcare costs.

Jon Magnussen (born 12 August 1959) is a Norwegian Professor in health economics and Head of Department of Public Health and General Practice at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.

Unnecessary health care (overutilization, overuse, or overtreatment) is healthcare provided with a higher volume or cost than is appropriate.

A health system, also sometimes referred to as health care system or as healthcare system, is the organization of people, institutions, and resources that deliver health care services to meet the health needs of target populations.

Health care spending in the United States is characterized as the most costly compared to all OECD (developed) countries, measured both per person and as a share of GDP.

Diseases of poverty is a term sometimes used to collectively describe diseases, disabilities, and health conditions that are more prevalent among the poor than among wealthier people.

Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Arogya Yojana (RGJAY) is a Universal health care scheme run by the Government of Maharashtra for the poor people of the state of Maharashtra who holds one of the 4 cards issued by the government; Antyodaya card, Annapurna card, yellow ration card or orange ration card.

Unlike most markets for consumer services in the United States, the health care market generally lacks transparent market-based pricing.

Disease burden is the impact of a health problem as measured by financial cost, mortality, morbidity, or other indicators.

The cost of HIV treatment is a complicated issue because of the high cost of developing HIV treatments versus an urgent lifesaving need across cultural boundaries to access HIV treatments.

James Arthur Thornton (born 1955) is Professor of Economics at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate classes.