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, alleviate information asymmetry, and improve the efciency of healthcare markets, global health systems have initiated price and … synthesize whether, to what extent, and how hospital price and quality transparency tools afected 1) the price of healthcare … healthcare spending, while it adversely and signifcantly raised the price of healthcare services and consumers’ payment in higher …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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the economic significance of the oral healthcare sector as a component of the German healthcare sector as a whole. The … current data for the healthcare sector comes from Health Satellite Accounts, which while comprehensive do fail to answer … important questions due to not incorporating certain sectors such as the oral healthcare sector. Therefore on the basis of the …
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review found 53 BWS applications in health and healthcare. This article expounds possibilities of application, the underlying …
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healthcare, but detailed microeconomic evidence on the relationship between supply-side factors and service use is limited … data from Mozambique, we investigate the effect of healthcare service availability, measured as the type of health …
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