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Quality improvements in markets for medical care are key objectives in any Health reform. An important question is whether disclosing physicians’ performance can contribute to achieving these goals. Due to the asymmetric information inherent in medical markets, one may argue that changes in...
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In the following paper we estimate the impact of obesity in childhood on health and health service use in England using instrumental variables. We use data on children and adolescents aged 3-18 years old from fifteen rounds of the Health Survey for England (1998-2012), which has measures of...
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Analyser av korttidseffekter av de finansielle virkemidlene i Samhandlingsreformen, i første rekke betalingsordningen for utskrivningsklare pasienter og kommunal medfinansiering av innleggelser innen medisinske DRG-er.
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Pay-for-performance schemes targeting quality improvements and cost reductions in markets for medical care have become increasingly popular among health policy- makers during the last decade. Typically, such schemes attach financial incentives to a set of indicators which consist of some...
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Rapporten inngår i prosjektet "Resultatevaluering av Omsorgsplan 2015", i delprosjekt B. Dette prosjektet har som mål å studere kommunenes tilpasning av drifts- og investeringsnivået innenfor omsorgstjenestene ved en nærmere beskrivelse av drifts- og investeringsnivået i perioden fram til...
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Bakgrunn. Mesteparten av den elektive aktiviteten i en sykehusavdeling foregår på dagtid gjennom ukens hverdager, selv om den akutte virksomheten foregår hele døgnet. Hvordan pasientbelastning og legeressurser fordeler seg gjennom døgnet i en sammenhengende tidsperiode i en avdeling er...
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Denne rapporten følger norske offentlige sykehus fra 1999 til 2012, -13 år med omveltinger i helsesektoren med blant annet overføring av eierskap fra fylke til staten, et stort antall sammenslåinger av sykehus til større helseforetak, innføringen av lovpålagt enhetlig ledelse, og...
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In this paper we propose a simple, market based mechanism to set prices in health care markets, namely a system where the patients are auctioned out to the hospitals. Our aim is to characterize principles as to how such an auction should be designed. In the case of elective treatment, health...
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Privacy of information is a central concern in the debate about genetic testing. Two types of social inefficiencies may occur when information about prevention and test status is private; genetic testing may not be done when it is socially efficient and genetic testing may be done although it is...
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In this paper, we view health insurance as a combined hedge against the two consequences of falling ill: treatment expenditures and loss in income. We discuss how an individual’s ability when healthy affects her decision on whether to buy health insurance with treatment to full recovery if ill...
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