The Economics of Healthcare in the ERF Region
FromMay 22, 2016 To May 22, 2016
Cairo, Egypt
Equity and efficiency of healthcare services are fundamental drivers of social justice and economic development. The MENA region has made remarkable progress in terms of expanding access to basic health services and improving the health status of its population, yet problems of inadequate and inequitable access to modest quality health care persist.
Against this backdrop, the Economic Research Forum (ERF) launched a call for proposals, in the context of the 16th round of the ERF-GDN Regional Research Competition, under the theme of “Economics of Healthcare in the ERF Region”. ERF received 9 proposals, out of which the refereeing committee selected 7 projects for funding. The draft papers of these projects will be presented and discussed in this workshop.
The objective of the workshop was to provide a platform for discussing the draft papers and their preliminary findings among authors and experts in order to improve the final output. The workshop was also intended to promote interaction between researchers with interest in the topic. It was held in collaboration with the MENA Health Policy Forum (MENA HPF)
Available Workshop Presentations:
- Burcay Erus, Out-of-pocket health expenditures in Turkey in the aftermath of the reforms: Impact of Co-payments on Expenditures and Use of Health Services.
- Eleftherios Giovanis and Oznur Ozdamar, Who Pays More: Public, Private, Both or None? The Effects of Health Insurance Schemes and Health Reforms on Out-of-Pocket and Catastrophic Health Expenditures in Turkey.
- Reham Rizk and Hala Abou Ali, Out of pocket health expenditure and household budget: Evidence from Arab countries.
- Ebaidalla Mahjoub Ebaidalla and Mohammed Elhaj Mustafa, Determinants and Impact of Household’s Out-Of–Pocket Healthcare Expenditure in Sudan: Evidence from Urban and Rural Population.
- Eleftherios Giovanis and Oznur Ozdamar, The link between Health Condition Costs and Standard of Living Through Out-of-Pocket Expenditures and Labor Market Outcomes in Turkey.
- Firat Bilgel and Burhan Can Karahasan, Access to Healthcare, Utilization and Health Outcomes in Turkey.
- Firat Bilgel and Burhan Can Karahasan, Healthcare Utilization and Self-assessed Health in Turkey: Evidence from the 2012 Survey.