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Dedicated doctors : public and private provision of health care with altruistic physicians
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2007
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Dedicated doctors : public and private provision of health care with altruistic physicians
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2007
Physicians are supposed to serve patients' interests, but some are more inclined to do so than others. This paper … studies how the system of health care provision affects the allocation of patients to physicians when physicians differ in … altruistic physicians infer that in their absence, NHS patients receive lower treatment quality than private sector patients …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350361
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Why are residents reluctant to consult attending physicians?
Swank, Otto H. - 2009
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Why are residents reluctant to consult attending physicians?
Swank, Otto H. - 2009
A physician performs two tasks: making diagnoses and determining treatments. To reduce medical error, residents are supposed to consult their supervisors when they face uncommon circumstances. However, recent research shows that residents are reluctant to do so. This paper presents a model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378360
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Do stepping stone jobs exist? : early career paths in the medical profession
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999
In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301153
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Do stepping-stone jobs exist? : Early career paths in the medical profession
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001387208
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Are we overdiagnosing mental illnesses? : evidence from randomly assigned doctors
Bos, Marieke; Hertzberg, Andrew; Liberman, Andres - 2021 - This draft: August 2021
Almost two in 10 adults in the U.S. and Europe are, at any moment in time, diagnosed with a mental illness. This paper asks whether mental illness is over- (or under-) diagnosed, by looking at its causal effect on individuals at the margin of diagnosis. We follow all Swedish men born between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665941
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Welfare state and life satisfaction : evidence from public health care
Laamanen, Jani-Petri; Kotakorpi, Kaisa - 2007
We examine the effect of publicly provided health care on welfare by combining local level data on public health care, and individual level data on life satisfaction. It is shown that relatively high expenditures in health care have a positive effect on individuals' life satisfaction in our...
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When health care insurance does not make a difference : the case of health care "made in China"
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 2006
Does medical insurance affect health care demand and in the end contribute to improvements in the health status? Evidence for China for the year 2004, by means of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), shows that health insurance does not affect health care demand in a significant manner....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349712
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Education-related inequity in health care with heterogeneous reporting of health
Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Lindeboom, Maarten; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2010
Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified...
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