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This chapter aims to quantify and compare inequalities of opportunity in health across European countries considering two alternative normative ways of treating the correlation between effort, as measured by lifestyles, and circumstances, as measured by parental and childhood characteristics,...
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European health care systems are facing diverse challenges. In health policy, strong primary care is seen as key to deal with these challenges. European countries differ in how strong their primary care systems are. Two groups of traditionally weak primary care systems are distinguished. First a...
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This article examines the link between restrictions on the number of physicians and general practitioners' (GPs) earnings. Using a representative panel of 6016 French self-employed GPs over the years 1983-2004, we estimate an earnings function to identify experience, time and cohort effects. The...
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Aim: In order to integrate malaria Intermittent Preventive Treatment in infants (IPTi) into the Ghana national immunization programme, there was the need to evaluate the feasibility of IPTi by assessing the intervention operational issues including its implementation costs, and its cost...
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Heterogeneity in time and risk preferences has been proposed as one of the mechanisms involved in the educational gradient in smoking, but this mechanism has scarcely been explored empirically. Subjective scales were introduced in the 2008 French National Health, Health Care and Insurance Survey...
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(Captopril, Glibenclamide and Carbamazepine) in Tunisia. In addition, the relative price has a positive and significant effect on … the change of market share of the brand name drug in Tunisia for the three active molecules. The higher the price of the … brand name product relative to the average price of the generic substitutes, the smaller the decrease of market share of the …
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price cap. Hospitals still negotiate with pharmaceutical firms, who set their prices freely, and then charge the national …. They are not allowed to charge a price higher than this ceiling price, which is called the 'responsibility tariff' (RT … in negotiation from hospitals, as supplementary funding could reduce hospital price sensitivity. OBJECTIVES: The aim of …
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