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/community participation in healthcare, not much has been achieved in this regard particularly in resource constrained countries like Ghana …, where over 70 % of communities in rural areas access basic healthcare from primary health facilities. Systematic Community … Engagement (SCE) in healthcare quality assessment remains a grey area in many health systems in Africa, albeit the increasing …
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countries, namely; Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen. We use data on a nationally representative sample from the most recent rounds of … child nutritional status (coefficient effects). Results show that the under-five stunting rates are 20 % in Egypt, 46.5 % in … Yemen, and 7.7 % in Jordan. The rural- urban gap in child malnutrition was minor in the case of Egypt (2.3 %) and Jordan (1 …
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Despite increasing popularity, quality improvement programs (QIP) have had modest and variable impacts on enhancing the quality of physician practice. We investigate the heterogeneity of physicians’ preferences as a potential explanation of these mixed results in France, where the national...
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An increasing focus on hospital productivity has rendered a need for more thorough knowledge of cost drivers in hospitals, including a need for quantification of the impact of age, case-mix and other characteristics of patients, as well as establishment of the cost-quality relationship. The aim...
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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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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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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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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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