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Does quality influence choice of general practitioner? An analysis of matched doctor-patient panel data

Biørn, Erik; Godager, Geir - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009

The impact of quality on the demand facing health care providers has important implications for the industrial organization of health care markets. In this paper we study the consumers' choice of general practitioner (GP) assuming they are unable to observe the true quality of GP services. A...

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A Fixed-Effects Analysis of How Income Inequality in a Municipality Affects Individual Mortality in Norway

Kravdal, Øystein - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009

There is still much uncertainty about the impact of income inequality on health and mortality. Some studies have supported the original hypothesis about adverse effects, while others have shown no effects, and a few even indicated beneficial effects. In this investigation, register data covering...

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An exploratory study of associations between social capital and selfassessed health in Norway

Iversen, Tor - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009

controlled for. Data from the survey of level-of-living conditions by Statistics Norway are merged with data from several other …

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Development of competition indicators in the Norwegian general practice: Constructing a postal code-specific Herfindahl-Hirschman index applying STATA software

Chen, Xing; Godager, Geir - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2011

practitioners’ services in Norway, but applying the suggested procedures to other output measures should be straight forward. The …

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Some problems with international comparisons of health spending – and a suggestion about how to quantify the size of the problems

Melberg, Hans Olav - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2011

This paper investigates the extent to which conclusions from international comparison of health spending depend on different adjustment methods. The analysis shows, first, that health spending figures differ significantly because of different accounting standards. More specifically, spending on...

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Municipality level accessibility to specialized health care in Norway

Lafkiri, Khalid - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2010

“equal access” to specialized health care is maintained in the specialist health care delivery system of Norway. Access to … of Norway (Finnmark county) has the worst access. We consider this study to be helpful in identifying how equitable …

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Notat i helseøkonomi: Forskjeller i forskrivning av legemidler under foretrukket legemiddelordning - En helseøkonomisk analyse av forskrivninger av annengenerasjons antihistaminer...

Sagdahl, Erik - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2010

Den 1. mai 2006 ble foretrukket legemiddelordning innført på terapiområdene allergi og elveblest, og ordningen inkluderte alle annengenerasjons antihistaminer i tablettform. Ordningen ble innført som en reaksjon på store forskjeller i pris, og samtidig små forskjeller i kliniske effekter...

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Immigrants`s acculturation and chanes in body mass index

Iversen, Tor; Ma, Albert; Meyer, Haakon E. - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2010

We study Body Mass Index (BMI) changes among immigrants from Iran, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Vietnam relative to native Norwegians in Oslo. We test a symmetric convergence hypothesis: irrespective of whether an immigrant’s initial BMI is lower or higher than a native Norwegian,...

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Why is there such a gap between health expenditures and outcomes in Norway compared to Finland?

Melberg, Hans Olav - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009

According to the OECD Norway spends 47% more on health care per capita compared to Finland and about 30% more than the … other Nordic countries. At the same time indicators of health status show that Norway is not better on important indicators … of health. This raises the question of why there is such a gap between spending and outcome in Norway compared to the …

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Life Cycle Wages of Doctors - An Empirical Analysis of the Earnings of Norwegian Physicians

Fjeldvig, Knut - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009

profiles of physicians educated in Norway and abroad and discuss alternative explanations for this pattern. <p> …

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