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When assessing health benefits of increased education in developing countries, many researchers have been concerned about the omission of important determinants of education from the models. This study illustrates that one should also be concerned about the limitations of the individual-level...
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Several empirical papers have indicated that the health inequalities in the Nordic welfare states seem to be at least as high as health inequalities in other European countries even if the Nordic states have a more egalitarian income structure. This is in contrast to standard economic theory...
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Dette er en oppfølgingsstudie om hvordan norske somatiske sykehus er organisert internt. Den første kartleggingen ble gjort i 2001. Denne studien er noe modifisert ved at enkelte spørsmål som ikke fungerte sist er fjernet, noen nye spørsmål er lagt til, samt at undersøkelsen er mer...
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Tema for denne rapporten er fordeling av behandling, forskning og undervisningsoppgaver (FoU aktiviteter) på sykehusene. Data for forsknings- og undervisningsproduksjon fra 1999 til 2001 er undersøkt, samtidig med tall for pasientbehandling og innsatsstyrt finansiering (ISF). Tradisjonelt...
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This paper is an extension of Brekke and Kverndokk (2014), which showed that a limited income transfers from a rich to a poor, both with equal health, will increase the concentration index. In this paper we will demonstrate that such health contingent income transfers are implicit in linear...
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It has been argued that activity based payment systems make hospitals focus on the diagnostic groups that are most profitable given costs and reimbursement rates. This article tests the hypothesis by exploring the relationship between changes in the DRG reimbursement rates and changes in the...
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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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Rapporten er skrevet på oppdrag av Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet og skal analysere effekter av bruk av anbud i helseregionene etter sykehusreformen, og drøfte alternative modeller for bruk av private leverandører, herunder mulige effekter på prioriterting, kvalitet, kostnadseffektivitet og...
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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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