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10160162

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-10-15
pubmed:abstractText
This paper examines the effects of health care on income redistribution in Finland. In contrast to earlier studies in this area, the redistributive effect is analysed with noncash transfers from health care utilisation included in household income. Distributional consequences of changing health care financing towards one system or another are analysed in terms of municipality provided public services and sickness insurance based public services. Our results show that, overall, the public health care system distributed income from the rich to the poor. The poorest one-third of the population financed only about one-third of the public health care services they utilised. The distributional implications were, however, markedly different depending on the definition of income used. Whereas health care financing had only a marginal redistributive effect, the effect was substantially increased as noncash transfers from health care utilisation were taken into account.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
H
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0168-8510
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
38
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
31-43
pubmed:dateRevised
2000-12-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Health care and income distribution in Finland.
pubmed:affiliation
National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, Helsinki, Finland.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article