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Does quality influence choice of general practitioner? An analysis of matched doctor-patient panel data
Biørn, Erik; Godager, Geir - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009
, inter alia, a LISREL type of model,is used. The patient excess mortality rate at the GP level is one indicator of the …
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Brukernes erfaringer med fastlege-ordningen 2001-2008 - Trender i bruk, tilgjengelighet og fornøydhet
Godager, Geir; Iversen, Tor - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2010
I denne rapporten beskrives trekk ved utviklingen i bruk, tilgjengelighet og fornøydhet med fastlegetjenesten etter at den ble etablert i 2001. Datamaterialet som er benyttet, er en kobling av Statistisk sentralbyrås (SSB) levekårsundersøkelser og fastlegedatabasen til Arbeids- og...
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Four Empirical Essays on the Market for General Practitioners' Services
Godager, Geir - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009
This dissertation consists of empirical essays within the subject of health economics. There are four essays in applied micro-econometrics and, as data in Essays 2 and 4 have a panel format, econometric methods for panel data are applied. Tobit-type models for limited dependent variables are...
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Child mortality in India: Exploring the community-level effect of education
Kravdal, Øystein - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009
education among women (but not men) in the census enumeration area has a strong impact on child mortality, net of the mother …’s own education. The relatively low child mortality associated with women’s autonomy explains some of this community … determinants of mortality, such as the use of maternity and other preventive health services, the child’s nutrition, and the mother …
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Cost-effectiveness of screening for colorectal cancer with once-only flexible sigmoidoscopy and faecal occult blood test
Aas, Eline - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009
On the basis of a randomized controlled trial we estimate the cost per life-year gained for six different strategies for colorectal cancer screening. Individuals in the age group 50 to 64 years were randomly selected for either flexible sigmoidoscopy or a combination of flexible sigmoidoscopy...
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Patient switching in a list patient system
Iversen, Tor; Lurås, Hilde - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009
We study whether the information patients have about physician quality when they choose a physician, influences their probability of switching physicians. We also study whether a physician with unfavorable characteristics, as perceived by patients (ex post), can compensate for patient switching...
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Regulation versus practice - The impact of accessibility on the use of specialist health care in Norway
Iversen, Tor; Kopperud, Gry Stine - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009
In Norway specialized health services are provided both by public hospitals and by privately practicing specialists who have a contract with the public sector. Patients’ co-payment is the same irrespective of the type of provider they visit. The ambition of equity in the allocation of medical...
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A study of income-motivated behavior among general practitioners in the Norwegian list patient system
Iversen, Tor - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009
In the Norwegian capitation system each general practitioner (GP) has a personal list of patients. The payment system is a mix of a capitation fee and fee-for-service. From a model of a GP’s decisions we derive the optimal practice profile contingent on whether a GP experiences a shortage of...
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Scandinavian long-term care financing
Karlsson, Martin; Iversen, Tor; Øien, Henning - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2010
In this paper, we compare and analyse the systems for financing long-term care for older people in the Scandinavian countries – Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The three countries share common political traditions of local autonomy and universalism, and these common roots are very apparent when...
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Market Conditions and General Practitioners’ Referrals
Iversen, Tor; Ma, Albert - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009
We study how market conditions influence referrals of patients by general practitioners (GPs). We set up a model of GP referral for the Norwegian health care system, where a GP receives capitation payment based on the number of patients in his practice, as well as fee-for-service reimbursements....
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