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Medical Malpractice Systems Around the Globe : Examples from the US-Tort Liability System and the Sweden-No Fault System
World Bank - 2013
In this paper two main medical malpractice systems are discussed - tort liability system in the US and no-fault system … care costs. Tort liability system is a "social insurance of a market society" where patients are compensated when the …
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Sweetening the carrot : motivating public physicians for better performance
Garcia-Prado, Ariadna - 2005
"It is widely observed that many physicians working in public health facilities do not put in the required effort and … time in their jobs. At the same time, many public physicians remain highly motivated, working long hours for little … improve the inoptimal performance of some physicians without compromising the effort of those already motivated. This paper …
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Money for nothing : the dire straits of medical practice in Delhi, India
Das, Jishnu - 2005
"The quality of medical care received by patients varies for two reasons: differences in doctors' competence or differences in doctors' incentives. Using medical vignettes, the authors evaluated competence for a sample of doctors in Delhi. One month later, they observed the same doctors in their...
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Which doctor? : combining vignettes and item response to measure doctor quality
Das, Jishnu - 2004
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Ghost doctors : absenteeism in Bangladeshi health facilities
Chaudhury, Nazmul - 2003
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Contingent Liability Risks from State-Owned Enterprises
World Bank - 2012
-Eastern country to manage contingent liability risks arising from SOEs. …
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Pakistan : Contingent Liabilities from Public Private Partnerships
World Bank - 2013
This final report is the fourth and final deliverable in Castalia's assignment, funded by the World Bank, to improve how contingent liabilities are managed in Pakistan. The report presents recommendations on how Pakistan should improve its policies and processes for issuing and managing...
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Valuing mortality and morbidity in the context of disaster risks
L. Cropper, Maureen - 2009
"Benefit-cost analyses of disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects are an important tool for evaluating the efficiency of such projects, and an important input into decision making. These analyses, however, often fail to monetize the benefits of reduced death and injury. The authors review the...
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The demographic and socio-economic distribution of excess mortality during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda
Walque, Damien de - 2009
demographic consequences of the Rwandan genocide and how the excess mortality due to the conflict was distributed in the …
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Fertility response to natural disasters : the case of three high mortality earthquakes
Finlay, Jocelyn E. - 2009
addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility … response may be induced as children can be used to supplement household income. This paper analyzes three high mortality … positive fertility response to exposure to these large-scale natural disasters in addition to the response to child mortality …
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