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Risk-Sharing Agreements in Pharmaceutical Markets/Los acuerdos de riesgo compartido en mercados farmacéuticos
ANTOÑANZAS, FERNANDO; JUÁREZ-CASTELLÓ, CARMELO; … - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 31 (2013) Septiembre, pp. 359-378
In this article, we model the relationship between a health authority and a pharmaceutical firm when the real efficacy … of the drug manufactured by the firm is uncertain. The ex-ante information on the efficacy of the new drug is pro … unit price regardless of the ex-post real effectiveness of the drug (traditional contract, i.e. no risk sharing …
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Battles Among Licensed Occupations: Analyzing Government Regulations on Labor Market Outcomes for Dentists and Hygienists
Kleiner, Morris M.; Park, Kyoung Won - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Occupational licensing is among the fastest-growing labor market institutions in the U.S. economy. One of the key features of occupational licensing is that the law determines who gets to do the work. In those cases where universally licensed occupations are both complements to and substitutes...
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Comparative assessment of policies targeting energy use efficiency in Lithuania
Streimikiene, Dalia; Volochovic, Andzej; Simanaviciene, … - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 16 (2012) 6, pp. 3613-3620
targeting energy intensity decrease in Lithuania in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and efficacy and to select the best …
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A full-fledged overhaul is needed for a risk and value-based regulation of medical devices in Europe
Campillo-Artero, Carlos - In: Health Policy 113 (2013) 1, pp. 38-44
The unacceptably high incidence of clinical adverse events caused by medical devices (MDs), their high recall rates, and the frequent phase out of some of the devices that pose a greater risk to health have triggered alarm concerning the long-standing weaknesses of their regulatory processes. It...
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How much do we know about the long-term effectiveness of parenting programmes? Advances, shortcomings, and future directions
Özdemir, Metin - In: Journal of Children's Services 10 (2015) 2, pp. 120-132
Purpose – Parenting programmes are seen as feasible and cost-effective in preventing early behavioural problems in children and adolescents. A number of studies have concluded that such programmes are effective in reducing child problem behaviours and improving the skills and well-being of...
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Organizational powers : capture of professional jurisdiction in the case of US retail clinics
Galperin, Roman V. - 2011
Innovative technology may reduce organizations’ reliance on professionals in the performance of expert tasks, weakening professions’ control over work. However, professions resist and challenge such innovation, framing it as unsafe and immoral. This paper theorizes a process by which...
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P4P, reputation and the reduction of costly overprovision
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja - 2012
We investigate the effect of reputational motivation on output in a scenario of overprovision of medical treatment. We assume that physicians differ in their degree of altruism, enjoy being perceived as good but dislike being perceived as greedy. We show that better reputational motivation...
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Balance billing: the patients’ perspective
Kifmann, Mathias; Scheuer, Florian - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 14, pp. 1-14
We study the effects of "balance billing", i.e., allowing physicians to charge a fee from patients in addition to the fee paid by Medicare. First, we show that on pure efficiency grounds the optimal Medicare fee under balance billing is zero. An active Medicare policy thus can only be justified...
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Ask your doctor or pharmacist! : on the effect of self-dispensing physicians on pharmaceutical coverage
Bannert, Matthias; Iselin, David - 2015
In most developed countries drugs are dispensed to patients through physicians and pharmacists. This paper studies the effects of allowing doctors to directly dispense drugs to patients (self-dispensation) on pharmaceutical coverage. We use a Swiss dataset in our empirical analysis because...
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Health workforce planning in OECD countries : a review of 26 projection models from 18 countries
Ono, Tomoko; Lafortune, Gaetan; Schoenstein, Michael - 2013
Health workforce planning aims to achieve a proper balance between the supply and demand for different categories of health workers, in both the short and longer-term. Workforce planning in the health sector is particularly important, given the time and cost involved in training new doctors and...
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