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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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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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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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targeting energy intensity decrease in Lithuania in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and efficacy and to select the best …
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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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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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We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public utilities) taking a differential game approach, in which quality is a stock variable. Using a Hotelling framework, we derive the open-loop solution (providers commit to an...
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This paper offers a conceptual analysis of the problem of quality in human services: in elementary school, psychiatric care, and the health and social care of children, the elderly, and the intellectually disabled. Geriatric nursing home patients are used as a case. These care recipients cannot...
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We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public utilities), using a Hotelling framework, in the presence of sluggish demand. We take a differential game approach, and derive the open-loop solution (providers commit to an...
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Globalization and development of internet based information and communication technologies lead to radical changes in the health systems of all countries in the world. In order to respond to the challenges of these changes and to insure better health of its nations and individuals in the new XXI...
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