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Copayments for doctor visits in Germany and the probability of visiting a physician - Evidence from a natural experiment
Farbmacher, Helmut - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The German health care reform of 2004 imposes a charge of 10 Euro for the first visit to a doctor in each quarter of the year. At first glance, there is no inhibiting effect of this fee on utilization in the German Socio-Economic Panel. However, this study reveals that the true effect is...
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Un Test sulle Ipotesi delle Proiezioni a Medio-Lungo Termine della Spesa Farmaceutica
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We use the same methodology, that Ecofin-Oecd apply for projecting expenditure in the medium-long term, to reconstruct expenditure in the medium-long past. It is possible to compare the effective expenditure with the reconstructed one. The effective expenditure is of course influenced by policy...
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Selbstbeteiligung als Lösung für das Moral-Hazard-Problem auf dem Arzneimittelmarkt?
Carolin, Hoh; Ivonne, Honekamp - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Within the debate about the rise of costs in the German health system, the argument has put forth that patients …'s consumer behaviour is the introduction of several copayment models. The first task of this work is to examine the role of moral … task. Furthermore, the question if copayment is a suitable means of control to reduce the exorbitant demand for drugs will …
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The Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice: Evidence from Retirees in the German Social Health Insurance
Wuppermann, Amelie C.; Bauhoff, Sebastian; Grabka, Markus M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We investigate two determinants of the price sensitivity of health plan demand: the size of the choice set and the salience of premium differences. Using variation in both features in the German Social Health Insurance (SHI) and information on health plan switches of retirees in the German Socio...
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Universal health insurance under a dual system, evidence of adverse selection against the public sector: the case of Chile
Bronfman, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper examines health insurance choice and its dynamics using panel data from Chile’s National Socio Economic Characterization Survey 1996-2001-2006. Evidence indicates that private insurance is losing customers to the public sector. Two different logistic models are used to explain the...
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Restraining High and Rising Cancer Drug Prices: Need for Accelerating R&D Productivity and Aligning Prices with Value
Bhardwaj, Ramesh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
terms of prolonging a patient’s life in years, or quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) and its price. The present study is an … returns are highest; and (iv) how to improve patients’ timely access to innovative medicines while balancing ‘safety’ concerns …
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Increased funding for AIDS-engaged (faith-based) civil society organizations in Africa?
Olivier, Jill; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper considers the evidence on the comparative extent to which faith-based civil society organizations (FB-CSOs) have benefited from increased funding related to the HIV/AIDS response in Africa. First, we review the literature on whether FB-CSOs have benefited from such funding, and find...
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Sağlıkta Dönüşümün Ampirik Analizi
Celikay, Ferdi; Gumus, Erdal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The efficiency of Turkish health system, which was restructured by the health transformation framework, depends on the mutual compliance of both health service providers and demanders. The future and success of the new health system may be determined by solving problems that were generated from...
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Do faith-inspired health care providers in Africa reach the poor more than other providers?
Olivier, Jill; Tsimpo, Clarence; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Faith-inspired institutions (FIIs) commonly have as their stated mission a desire to provide quality health services to all, and in particular a commitment to serve the poor, for example, by providing services in remote areas where there are none, or by making services more affordable for those...
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Rising Mortality Rate in Andhra Pradesh: Towards a demystification
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana; Mishra, Uday Shankar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This is an effort at explaining the reasons and rationale behind the rising mortality rate (CDR) in the South Indian State – Andhra Pradesh. Although the state’s performance in socio-economic sphere seems to be not that impressive, its performance in demographic transition during the last...
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