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Healthcare Information and the Utilization of Pap-smear Testing amongst Taiwanese Women

Lin, Yen-ju; Liu, Tsai-ching; Chen, Chin-shyan - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 67-79

This study is to investigate the determinants of healthcare information amongst women in Taiwan aged between 25 and 69 years, and the association with cervical cancer screening.A two-stage estimation model was adopted for this investigation. In the first stage, the determinants of healthcare...

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ARE RACIAL DISPARITIES IN DIABETES IN THE USA DRIVEN BY EDUCATION DISTRIBUTION?

Ray, Achintya - In: Economics Bulletin 9 (2007) 2, pp. 1-18

Widespread health disparities have been found between different races in the USA. The precise reasons for racial health disparities are not well understood although various factors have been proposed. Using diabetes related data from the NHANES III (1988-1994) of the USA, this paper shows that...

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Bargaining and idle public sector capacity in health care

Martinez-Giralt, Xavier; Pita, Barros Pedro - In: Economics Bulletin 9 (2005) 5, pp. 1-8

A feature present in countries with a National Health Service is the co-existence of a public and a private sector. Often, the public payer contracts with private providers while holding idle capacity. This is often seen as inefficiency from the management of public facilities. We present here a...

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Bargaining and idle public sector capacity in health care

Martinez-Giralt, Xavier; Pita, Barros Pedro - In: Economics Bulletin 9 (2005) 5, pp. 1-8

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ARE RACIAL DISPARITIES IN DIABETES IN THE USA DRIVEN BY EDUCATION DISTRIBUTION?

Ray, Achintya - In: Economics Bulletin 9 (2007) 2, pp. 1-18

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Catastrophic out-of-pocket payment for healthcare and implications for household coping strategies: evidence from West Bengal, India

Mondal, Swadhin; Lucas, Henry; Peters, David; Kanjilal, … - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 2, pp. 1303-1316

Purpose: To identify the relative risks of catastrophic healthcare expenditures for different types of health need, and the impact of such expenditure on household coping strategies. Methods: Using data from a household survey in West Bengal, the risks of incurring ‘catastrophic' healthcare...

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Pay-for-Performance, Reputation, and the Reduction of Costly Overprovision

Kairies, Nadja - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 702-715

We investigate the effect of reputational motivation on output in a scenario of overprovision of medical treatment. We assume that physicians differ in their degree of altruism, enjoy being perceived as good but, dislike being perceived as greedy. We show that better reputational motivation...

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Consumer confusion and multiple equilibria

Marette, Stéphan - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 2, pp. 1120-1128

This paper focuses on consumer confusion when firms may choose between credible and non-credible certification systems … equilibria, in which either all firms select the credible certification or all firms select the non-credible certification. A … situation with numerous confused consumers is characterized by the complete absence of credible certification. …

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Estimating the impact of diabetes on employment in Taiwan

Lin, Shin-Jong - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 4, pp. 3089-3102

This paper investigates the impact of diabetes on employment based on the 2005 National Health Interview Survey in Taiwan using a recursive bivariate probit model. The findings show that diabetes has a negative and significant effect on employment, and that the magnitude is larger for men than...

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Defining poor to defining rich: Gauging the middle class in India

Mishra, Udaya S; Joe, William - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 4, pp. 3321-3328

This is a simple illustration of using the concept of poverty gap in determining the rich and in turn the middle class given the consumption expenditure distribution of a population. Based on the transfer principle from rich to the poor it assumes complete alleviation of poverty. Such an...

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