This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … physician, who offers a wide range of primary healthcare services that are free-of-charge. Furthermore, these services are …

Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years … medical services offered by township healthcare centers (THCs), a main type of PHIs. Linking medical visits to 923 THCs in a …

markets, are less likely to provide charity care, increase the quantity of healthcare provided, and become more selective of …

copayments and coinsurance, for several healthcare services believed to be of low value and overused (sleep studies, endoscopies … insurance claims data, we estimate the change in low value healthcare service utilization among beneficiaries before and after … public and private healthcare policies as V-BID principles are rapidly proliferating in healthcare markets. …

We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital … and financial autonomy as well as their reimbursement systems and incentives for competition before the reform, but they … competition in terms of decrease in mortality after the reform. We estimate a duration model for mortality stratified at the …