We investigate whether people enrolled into voluntary health insurance (VHI) substitute public consumption with private … the case of Italy, where a mixed insurance system is in place. To this purpose, we specify a joint model for public and … private specialist visits counts, and allow for different degrees of endogenous supplementary insurance coverage, looking at …

Background: In recent years, measuring and evaluating the efficiency of health systems has been explored in the context … in the health sector. The study aims to quantify and compare the efficiency of OECD health systems in 2000, 2008, and … (eight-year interval). Methods: The analysis focuses on assessing the efficiency of the health systems of OECD countries over …

individuals are differently motivated in that they have different missions, and their self-selection into sectors or organizations … with matching missions enhances organizational efficiency. We test Besley and Ghatak's model using data from a unique … cohort study. We generate two proxies for intrinsic motivations: a survey-based measure of the health professionals …

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 …

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 …

was mostly seen as a "cost" item, probably because many medical treatments are covered by public health insurance. However …The perception of the health sector from an economic policy point of view is changing. In the past, health expenditure …, policymakers are increasingly realizing that a growing health sector may be quite beneficial for an economy. It creates employment …

healthcare of IBD patients in Germany?" Methods: We combined a claims dataset from a German health insurance fund with population …

producing health care. Specifically, we use a large set of private insurance claims from the FAIR Health database to show that …

Since 2000 several papers have examined the efficiency of healthcare delivery systems worldwide. These papers have … efficiency rankings across papers can diverge quite significantly, with several countries being highly efficient in one … efficiency rankings across specifications, compared to specifications that utilize specific measures collected infrequently. This …

quantity and quality of such staff, in particular when it comes to those institutions managing mandatory health insurance …Managers and administrators in charge of social protection and health financing, service purchasing and provision play … a crucial role in harnessing the potential advantage of prudent organization, management and purchasing of health …