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Gatekeeping in health care
Brekke, Kurt R. (contributor); Nuscheler, Robert (contributor) - 2005
We study the competitive effects of restricting direct access to secondary care by gatekeeping, focusing on the informational role of general practitioners (GPs). In the secondary care market there are two hospitals choosing quality and specialisation. Patients, who are ex ante uninformed, can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003201758
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Public and private provision of health care
Barros, Pedro Pita - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013423108
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Optimal lockdown and social welfare
Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2020
This paper reexamines the design of the optimal lockdown strategy by paying attention to its robustness to the … postulated social welfare criterion. We first characterize optimal lockdown under utilitarianism, and we show that this social …-maximal lockdown saving lives at the cost of reducing average utility at a given period, there exists always a stricter lockdown, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313558
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Migration and the equilibrium prevalence of infectious diseases
Mesnard, Alice; Seabright, Paul - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003640648
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The optimal control of infectious diseases via prevention and treatment
Rowthorn, Bob; Toxvaerd, Flavio - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009558255
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An equilibrium model of the African HIV/AIDS epedemic
Greenwood, Jeremy; Kircher, Philipp; Santos, Cézar; … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009747863
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Concerns for equity and the optimal co-payments for publicly provided health care
Hoel, Michael (contributor) - 2005
In countries where health care is publicly provided and where equity considerations play an important role in policy decisions, it is often argued that an increase in co-payments is unacceptable as it will be particularly harmful to the less well-off in society. The present paper derives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003297601
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Death, tetanus and aerobics : the evaluation of disease-specific health interventions
Dow, William H. (contributor) - 1995
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Technological adoption in health care
Barros, Pedro Pita; Martínez-Giralt, Xavier - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003911950
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Competition, equity and qulaity in healthcare
Halonen-Akatwijuka, Maija; Propper, Carol - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009715146