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In Norway specialized health services are provided both by public hospitals and by privately practicing specialists who have a contract with the public sector. Patients’ co-payment is the same irrespective of the type of provider they visit. The ambition of equity in the allocation of medical...
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The paper examines the heterogeneity with respect to the impact of a financial reform - Activity Based Financing (ABF) - on hospital efficiency in Norway. Measures of technical efficiency and of cost-efficiency are considered. The data set is from a contiguous ten-year panel of 47 hospitals...
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I denne rapporten beskrives trekk ved utviklingen i bruk, tilgjengelighet og fornøydhet med fastlegetjenesten etter at den ble etablert i 2001. Datamaterialet som er benyttet, er en kobling av Statistisk sentralbyrås (SSB) levekårsundersøkelser og fastlegedatabasen til Arbeids- og...
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In this paper, we compare and analyse the systems for financing long-term care for older people in the Scandinavian countries – Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The three countries share common political traditions of local autonomy and universalism, and these common roots are very apparent when...
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Denne rapporten skal i følge oppdraget fra ESO gi en oversiktlig beskrivelse og diskusjon av problemer i helsesektorene i de nordiske land. Diskusjonen legger større vekt på bredde enn på dybde. Oversiktlige beskrivelser kombinert med teori kan bidra med innsikt for lesere som ikke vet så...
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We study the impact of competition on primary care physicians’specialty referrals. Our data come from a Norwegian survey in 2008-9 and Statistics Norway. From the data we construct three measures of competition the number of open primary physician practices with and without population...
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We study whether the information patients have about physician quality when they choose a physician, influences their probability of switching physicians. We also study whether a physician with unfavorable characteristics, as perceived by patients (ex post), can compensate for patient switching...
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In the Norwegian capitation system each general practitioner (GP) has a personal list of patients. The payment system is a mix of a capitation fee and fee-for-service. From a model of a GP’s decisions we derive the optimal practice profile contingent on whether a GP experiences a shortage of...
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Fram mot 2050 blir det flere eldre, og en høyere andel eldre i befolkningen enn det som er tilfelle i dag. Ifølge befolkningsframskrivinger vil antall personer over 67 år fordobles de nærmeste 50 år og for aldersgruppen over 90 år blir veksten enda sterkere. Siden utgiftene til helse- og...
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Fastlegene i de tidligere forsøkskommunene har i 2003 kortere lister enn de hadde da fastlegeforsøket ble igangsatt i 1993. Listene er imidlertid fremdeles lengre i disse kommunene enn i landet for øvrig. Samtidig ser vi at gjennomsnittslegen i forsøkskommunene har færre ledige plasser på...
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