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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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A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health over the life cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008654181
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A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health over the life cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010
Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381036
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Does price competition damage healthcare quality?
Roos, Anne-Fleur; Van Doorslaer, Eddy; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2018
One of the reasons why regulators are hesitant about permitting price competition in healthcare markets is that it may damage quality when information is poor. Evidence on whether this fear is well-founded is scarce. We provide evidence using a reform that permitted Dutch health insurers and...
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Why are residents reluctant to consult attending physicians?
Swank, Otto H. - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850893
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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...
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