Excessive waiting times for elective surgery have been a long-standing concern in many national healthcare systems in … hospitals characteristics that determine waiting times? By developing a model of healthcare provision and analysing empirically … how constrained the hospital is, explains differences in scale. Changes in benefits and costs structures of healthcare …

Background: The regional availability of specialized physicians is an important aspect in healthcare of patients with … IBD. The association between physician density and healthcare is not yet clear. Most studies did not consider district … healthcare of IBD patients in Germany?" Methods: We combined a claims dataset from a German health insurance fund with population …

models such as the risk equalization model. Results: Since the neighborhood has no explicit ‘place’ in healthcare demand … models, we have developed the “Neighborhood and healthcare utilization model” to show how neighborhoods matter in healthcare … utilization. Neighborhood may affect healthcare utilization via (1) the supply-side, (2) need, and (3) demand for healthcare …

Understanding socioeconomic inequalities in health care is critical for achieving health equity. The aim of this paper … these inequalities in relation to socio-demographic and clinical morbidity factors; and 3) to compare the empirical outcome …

Background: Assessing the impact of cost sharing on healthcare utilization is a critical issue in health economics and … substitutes in low-income areas but complements in high-income ones. Although the subsidy for children’s healthcare would increase …

lowers quality of care and is thus a major concern in the healthcare industry. The study first examines the impact of …

Since 2000 several papers have examined the efficiency of healthcare delivery systems worldwide. These papers have …