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Changing Research Perspectives on the Global Health Workforce

Bärnighausen, Till - 2009

Past research on the health workforce can be structured into three perspectives - "health workforce planning" (1960 through 1970s); "the health worker as economic actor" (1980s through 1990s); and "the health worker as necessary resource" (1990s through 2000s). During the first phase, shortages...

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Vertical Integration and Optimal Reimbursement Policy

Afendulis, Chris - 2011

payment for skilled nursing facilities (SNF PPS) in geographic areas with high versus low levels of hospital/SNF integration …

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Hospitals as Hotels : The Role of Patient Amenities in Hospital Demand

Goldman, Dana P. - 2010

Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand … patient perspective, hospital quality therefore embodies amenities as well as clinical quality. We also find that a one …-standard-deviation increase in amenities raises a hospital's demand by 38.4% on average, whereas demand is substantially less responsive to …

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Financial Health Economics

Koijen, Ralph S. J. - 2014

We provide a theoretical and empirical analysis of the link between financial and real health care markets. This link is important as financial returns drive investment in medical research and development (R&D), which in turn, affects real spending growth. We document a “medical innovation...

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Adolescent Health, Family Background, and Preventive Medical Care

Edwards, Linda N.; Grossman, Michael - 2021

This paper investigates the health of white adolescents, focusing particularly on the roles of family background and preventive medical care. This emphasis is motivated in part by our desire to study adolescent health in the context of the nature-nurture controversy. The findings indicate first,...

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The Effect of Drug Vintage on Survival : Micro Evidence from Puerto Rico'S Medicaid Program

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2021

Using micro data on virtually all of the drugs and diseases of over 500,000 people enrolled in Puerto Rico's Medicaid program, we examine the impact of the vintage (original FDA approval year) of drugs used to treat a patient on the patient's 3-year probability of survival, controlling for...

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Behavioral Economics and Health Economics

Frank, Richard G. - 2021

The health sector is filled with institutions and decision-making circumstances that create friction in markets and cognitive errors by decision makers. This paper examines the potential contributions to health economics of the ideas of behavioral economics. The discussion presented here focuses...

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Consumer Demand for Health Information on the Internet

Bundorf, M. Kate; Baker, Laurence C.; Singer, Sara; … - 2021

The challenges consumers face in acquiring and using information are a defining feature of health care markets. In this paper, we examine demand for health information on the Internet. We find that individuals in poor health are more likely than those in better health to use the Internet to...

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The Effect of Managed Care on Health Care Providers

Baker, Laurence C.; Brown, Martin L. - 2021

We investigate the effect of managed care on the health care system, focusing on the effects managed care could have on the number and types of health care providers and their efficiency. By influencing providers, managed care may change the structure and performance of the entire health care...

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Identifying Provider Prejudice in Healthcare

Chandra, Amitabh - 2010

We use simple economic insights to develop a framework for distinguishing between prejudice and statistical discrimination using observational data. We focus our inquiry on the enormous literature in healthcare where treatment disparities by race and gender are not explained by access,...

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