reporting in Kenyan health clinics. We recruit patients and health care providers from public and private health clinics to play …

Africa's quest to achieving improved health status and meeting the Millennium Development Goals targets cannot be … the policy effectiveness that bring about improved health and living standards of the citizenry. In this paper, we study … the importance of leader characteristics and regime transitions on government's expenditure in health, and hence on infant …

Health workforce shortages in developed countries are perceived to be central drivers of health professionals … international overview, selected economic issues are discussed for developed and developing countries. Health labour markets' unique …-)union activity. These features affect migrants' decisions, economic integration, and impacts on the receiving nations' health …

This paper presents a model of consumption and household production that takes into account substitution between health …

cohort study. We generate two proxies for intrinsic motivations: a survey-based measure of the health professionals …’ philanthropic motivations and an experimental measure of their pro-social motivations. We find that both proxies predict health … professionals' decision to work in the non-profit sector. We also find that philanthropic health workers employed in the non …

Most developing countries face shortages of health workers in rural areas. This has profound consequences for health … service delivery, and ultimately for health outcomes. To design policies that rectify these geographic imbalances it is vital … to understand what factors determine health workers' choice to work in rural areas. But empirical analysis of health …

legislation necessitating health professionals to apply for license for private practice only after three years of graduation …

Managing dual practice of health workers has often proved to be challenging, especially in emerging countries … practice among heads of local public facilities (known as puskesmas) providing primary health care after the introduction of a … 1997 health regulation in Indonesia. This regulation required health professionals to apply for a license for private …