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Private hospital accreditation and inducement of care under the Ghanaian National Insurance Scheme

Amporfu, Eugenia - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 13, pp. 1-9

The Ghanaian National Health Insurance Scheme pays providers according to the fee for service payment scheme, a method of payment that is likely to encourage inducement of care. The goal of this paper is to test for the presence of supplier induced demand among patients who received care in...

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Transitivity in health utility measurement : an experimental analysis

Schmidt, Ulrich; Stolpe, Michael - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 12, pp. 1-4

Several experimental studies have observed substantial violations of transitivity for decisions between risky lotteries over monetary outcomes. The goal of our experiment is to test whether these violations also affect the evaluation of health states. A particular feature of our experimental...

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Mind the information gap : fertility rate and use of cesarean delivery and tocolytic hospitalizations in Taiwan

Ma, Ke-zong M.; Norton, Edward C.; Lee, Shoou-yih D. - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 20, pp. 1-15

Background: Physician-induced demand (PID) is an important theory to test given the longstanding controversy surrounding it. Empirical health economists have been challenged to find natural experiments to test the theory because PID is tantamount to strong income effects. The data requirements...

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A multilevel analysis of prenatal care and birth weight in Kenya

Awiti, Japheth Osotsi - In: Health economics review 4 (2014) 33, pp. 1-16

The paper investigates the effect of adequate use of prenatal care on birth weight in Kenya using data from the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey of 2008 - 2009 together with additional administrative data. Both a single-level model and a multi-level model are estimated. The estimation...

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Methods for measuring horizontal equity in health resource allocation: a comparative study

Tao, Yi; Henry, Kizito; Zou, Qinpei; Zhong, Xiaoni - In: Health economics review 4 (2014) 10, pp. 1-10

There are many existing methodologies on measuring health equity, while seldom has method aiming at health resource allocation. We collected 6 method of measuring equity in health resource allocation. This paper presents key contents of methods on measuring horizontal equity in health service...

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Is healthcare a "necessity" or "luxury"? : an empirical evidence from public and private sector analyses of South-East Asian countries?

Khan, Jahangir A. M.; Mahumud, Rashidul Alam - In: Health economics review 5 (2015) 3, pp. 1-9

healthcare expenditure in public and private sectors separately for investigating whether healthcare is a "necessity" or "luxury … random-effect models were fitted to estimate income-elasticity of public, private and total healthcare expenditure. Results … showed that one percent point increase in GDP per capita increased private expenditure on healthcare by 1.128%, while public …

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Wealth and antenatal care use : implications for maternal health care utilisation in Ghana

Arthur, Eric - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 14, pp. 1-8

The study investigates the effect of wealth on maternal health care utilization in Ghana via its effect on Antenatal care use. Antenatal care serves as the initial point of contact of expectant mothers to maternal health care providers before delivery. The study is pivoted on the introduction of...

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The national health insurance scheme : perceptions and experiences of health care providers and clients in two districts of Ghana

Dalinjong, Ayizem Philip; Laar, Alexander Suuk - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 13, pp. 1-13

Background: Prepayments and risk pooling through social health insurance has been advocated by international development organizations. Social health insurance is seen as a mechanism that helps mobilize resources for health, pool risk, and provide more access to health care services for the...

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Estimating cost-effectiveness in public health : a summary of modelling and valuation methods

Marsh, Kevin; Phillips, Ceri; Fordham, Richard; … - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 17, pp. 1-6

It is acknowledged that economic evaluation methods as they have been developed for Health Technology Assessment do not capture all the costs and benefits relevant to the assessment of public health interventions. This paper reviews methods that could be employed to measure and value the broader...

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Patients’ mobility as an indicator for (in)efficiency : a panel data analysis on Italian health care authorities

Mafrolla, Elsabetta; D'Amico, Eugenio - In: Health economics review 3 (2013) 3, pp. 1-13

This paper investigates the influence of internal managerial patterns of heath care authorities on the decision of patients to migrate towards different health care organizations to avail treatments. The efficiency and productivity issues are analyzed, considering the (passive) migration as a...

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