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Heterogeneity in Hospitals' Responses to a Financial Reform: A Random Coefficient Analysis of The Impact of Activity-Based Financing on Efficiency
Biorn, Erik; Hagen, Terje P.; Iversen, Tor; Magnussen, Jon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The paper examines the heterogeneity with respect to the impact of a financial reform - Activity Based Financing (ABF) - on hospital efficiency in Norway. Measures of technical efficiency and of cost-efficiency are considered. The data set is from a contiguous ten-year panel of 47 hospitals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112509
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Education, paludisme et moustiquaires imprégnées d'insecticide en Afrique sub-saharienne
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This article explores the relationship between the cover of insecticide-treated mosquito net and some indicators of education. The analysis is based on a panel sample of 41 countries of sub-Saharan African over the period 2001-2006. Our results suggest that cover of insecticide-treated mosquito...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108448
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What do we know about non-clinical interventions for preventable and treatable childhood diseases in developing countries?
Seguin, Maureen; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Preventable and treatable childhood diseases, notably acute respiratory infections and diarrhoeal diseases are the first and second leading causes of death and morbidity among young children in developing countries. The fact that a large proportion of child deaths are caused by these diseases is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110706
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Incidence and impacts of clinical mastitis in dairy cattle farms: case of Maharastra farmers
MK, Sinha; NN, Thombare - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
A cross sectional farm sample survey was conducted to assess the consequences of mastitis on farmer’s economy. Daily …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259373
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Why Low Adult Immunization? An inquiry into the case of Hepatitis B Vaccine in the Peri-Urban Areas of Kathmandu Valley
Raut, Nirmal Kumar; Shrestha, Devendra Prasad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We attempt to analyze the reasons to low adult immunization from the willingness to pay perspective in the peri-urban setting of Kathmandu Valley where some private health facilities had organized Hepatitis B Vaccine Health camps in the recent past. We reason the existence of regulated Hepatitis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150778
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Sağlıkta Dönüşümün Ampirik Analizi
Celikay, Ferdi; Gumus, Erdal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The efficiency of Turkish health system, which was restructured by the health transformation framework, depends on the mutual compliance of both health service providers and demanders. The future and success of the new health system may be determined by solving problems that were generated from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259508
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Enhancing the food security of the peri-urban and urban poor through improvements to the quality, safety and economics of street-vended foods
Johnson, Paa-Nii T.; Yawson, Robert M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
urbanisation process and the urban economy reflects the way of life and the survival and coping strategies adopted in most African … the Ghanaian economy. The DFID/NRI/FRI project on improved street-vended foods was a one-year exploratory study aimed at … economy of Ghana. The project complemented previous work carried on the sector by other workers. This workshop was therefore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372621
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Trends in life expectancy and the macroeconomy in Malawi
Matchaya, Greenwell C - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The purpose of this paper was to study trends in life expectancy in Malawi since independence and offer possible explanations regarding its inter-temporal variations. Descriptive analysis has shown that life expectancy in Malawi has trailed below Sub Saharan Africa’s average. From the 1960s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790452
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Partnerships for Women's Health - Striving for Best Practice within the UN Global Compact / United Nations University Research Brief 1/2009 (www.unu.edu)
Timmermann, Martina; Kruesmann, Monika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy and childbirth complications; a further 20 suffer injury, infection or disease. Despite medical advances, and years of policy declarations, this tragic situation remains particularly severe in developing countries, violating a fundamental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008566435
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Empirical Analysis of Field Data on HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Khartoum State, Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The study focuses on the HIV/AIDS in Khartoum state during the period (2003-2007). The main objectives are to study the situation of HIV/AIDS in Khartoum state through a sample of 1439 of volunteers for the three selected blood testing and counseling centers in Khartoum, Omdurman, and Khartoum...
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