Reducing socioeconomic health inequalities is a key goal of most health systems. When care providers are paid … increase in hospital emergency department visits (a substitute to primary care), but no effects on hospitalizations. These … results do not suggest that the new RA model reduced socioeconomic health inequalities. Our findings highlight that a risk …

Regulation fostering Managed Care alternatives in health insurance is spreading. This work reports on an experiment …-Care type restrictions in the provision of health care. It finds that restrictions on the freedom of physician choice would … social health insurance. …

We survey the literature on the effects of public sector outsourcing. Guided by theory, we systematically arrange … indicates that public sector outsourcing generally reduces costs without hurting quality. This is clearly the case for … "perfectly contractible services" like garbage collection, but outsourcing often seems to work reasonably well also for some …

networks, we used information on the doctors' place and time of study and their hospital work history. We found that GPs …

We study the dependence of health insurance availability of near-elderly inpatients in the United States with respect …

benefit list of social health insurance. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted in Germany to measure preferences … contributions to health insurance. As one would expect, non-affected non-diabetics and insulin-naive diabetics exhibit higher …

In this study, the authors have tried to examine the empirical evidence on the relationship between preventive health … role of preventive health care in boosting the corporate sector's performance and improving the country's economy. Toward … employees in Delhi and the National Capital Region. Preventive health care holds enormous promise for the competitiveness of …