Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/219674 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Institute of Economic Research Working Papers No. 58/2015
Publisher: 
Institute of Economic Research (IER), Toruń
Abstract: 
This paper addresses issues related to health care in the context of the debate about the typology of welfare state regimes and comparative studies conducted by reference to the debate. Particular attention has been paid to the phenomenon of decommodification as one of the key dimensions that define welfare regimes identified in the literature associated with this debate. The study presents a health decommodification index, on the basis of which an attempt has been made to assess the decommodification potential of health care, taking into account the situation in the 28 EU Member States in 2012. The identification of a widely understood accessibility of publicly funded health care as a basic measure for assessing the decommodifying features of health programs is an important result of the empirical analysis. The study has also confirmed the views expressed in the literature about the existence of practical obstacles standing in the way of developing a universal typology of welfare states.
Subjects: 
welfare state regimes
health care
decommodification
JEL: 
A11
H51
I18
P16
Creative Commons License: 
cc-by Logo
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.