expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the …

In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is … instead if their income exceeds the compulsory insurance threshold. Here, premia are based on age and health, individuals may … private insurance coverage on the number of doctor visits, the number of nights spent in a hospital and self-assessed health …

This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … provided at family health centers, which operate on a walk-in basis and are located within the neighborhoods in close proximity … health. …

We examine how substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers respond to private health insurance expansions induced …

outcomes between physicians and another highly educated group, lawyers, and between surgeons and non-surgeon physicians … Education 2011 duty hour reform, which lowered trainee work hours, impacted the birth outcomes of babies born to physicians … compared with lawyers. We find that physicians have lower birth weights and shorter pregnancies than lawyers with the results …

the FHG physicians. -- physician remuneration ; primary care ; Family Health Organizations ; Family Health Groups …We study the impact of a mixed capitation model known as the Family Health Organization (FHO) on selected quality and … quantity outcomes relative to an enhanced fee-for-service model known as the Family Health Group (FHG) among primary care …

This paper analyses the relationship between locus of control (LOC) and the demand for supplementary health insurance …. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that individuals having an internal LOC are more likely to … take up supplementary private health insurance (SUPP). The increase in the probability to have a SUPP due to one standard …

We study an enhanced fee-for-service model for primary care physicians in the Family Health Groups (FHG) in Ontario … distinct patients seen. We also find that the FHG physicians have lower referral rates and treat slightly more complex patients … than the comparable FFS physicians. These results suggest that the FHG model offers a promising alternative to the FFS …

The standard economic model for the demand for health care predicts that unhealthy behaviour such as being overweight … primary physician (GP) services according to the individual's latent health status. Based on a sample of wage-earners aged 25 …-60 years drawn from the National Health Interview (NHI) survey 2000 and merged to Danish register data, we compare differences …