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Does variation in GP practice matter for the length of sick leave? A multilevel analysis based on Norwegian GP—patient data

Aakvik, Arild; Holmås, Tor Helge; Islam, M. Kamrul - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2011

In many countries, the social insurance system is under pressure from an ageing population. An increasing number of people are on sickness benefits and disability pensions in Norway. The general practitioner (GP) is responsible for assessing work capacity and issuing certificates for sick leave...

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Access to Primary Health Care and Health Outcomes: The Relationships between GP Characteristics and Mortality Rates

Aakvik, Arild; Holmås, Tor Helge - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2005

This paper analyses the impact of economic conditions and access to primary health care on health outcomes in Norway. Total mortality rates, grouped into four causes of death, were used as proxies for health, and the number of general practitioners (GPs) at the municipality level was used as the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008918547

Education and the Quality-quantity Trade-off in Pakistani Women's Fertility Decisions.

Naz, G. - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2001

In this paper we explore the mechanisms causing the negative association between females' education and fertility in …

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EARLY LIFE HEALTH INTERVENTIONS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Bharadwaj, Prashant; Løken, Katrine V.; Neilson, … - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2012

This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school. We use the idea that medical treatments often follow rules of thumb for assigning care to patients, such as the classification of Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW), which assigns...

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Family income and children's education: Using the Norwegian oil boom as a natural experiment.

Løken, Katrine Vellesen - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2007

Parental income is positively correlated with children?s educational attainment. This paper addresses the causality of this observed link. We have a unique data set for Norwegians born in the period from 1968-1973, with a measure of permanent family income from the children are 0-20 years old....

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Where are all the Physicans? Private vs. Public Health Care.

Brekke, K.R.; Sorgard, L. - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2000

The purpose of this paper is to examine the interplay between public and private health care. We consider a situation where public and private health care are perfect substitutes, and the government sets the wage in the public sector and the subsidy to (or taxation on) the private sector. Each...

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Multitasking, Quality and Pay for Performance

Kaarbøe, Oddvar M.; Siciliani, Luigi - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2011

We present a model of optimal contracting between a purchaser and a provider of health services when quality has two dimensions. We assume that one dimension of quality is veri?able (dimension 1) and one dimension is not verifiable (dimension 2). We show that the power of the incentive scheme...

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Gatekeeping in health care

Brekke, Kurt R.; Nuscheler, Robert - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2003

We study the competitive effects of restricting direct access to secondary care by gatekeeping, focusing on the informational role of gatekeeping general practitioners (GPs). We consider a secondary care market with two hospitals choosing the quality and specialisation of their care. GPs...

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Prioritization and patients' rights: Analysing the effect of a reform in the Norwegian Hospital Sector

Askildsen, Jan Erik; Holmås, Tor Helge; Kaarbøe, Oddvar - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2009

The right to equal treatment, irrespective of age, gender, ethnicity, socio-economic status and place of resident, is an important principle for several health care systems. A reform of the Norwegian hospital sector may be used as a relevant experiment for investigating whether centralization of...

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Norwegian priority guidelines: Estimating the distributional implications across age, gender and SES

Carlsen, Fredrik; Kaarbøe, Oddvar - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2009

explaining priority status as a function of age, gender and socioeconomic status. Results: Women and older people are … overrepresented among patients with low priority. Conditional on age, women with low priority have lower income and less education … than women with high priority. Among men below 50 years, patients with low priority have less education than patients with …

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