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Dynamic, incentive-compatible contracting for health services
Levaggi, Rosella; Moretto, Michele; Pertile, Paolo - 2023
, which is affected by both patient and hospital characteristics. To illustrate the characteristics of the dynamic contract …
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An ounce of prevention for a pound of cure : basic health care and efficiency in health systems
Bancalari, Antonella; Bernal, Pedro; Celhay, Pablo A.; … - 2024
We examine the efficiency gains in health systems generated after the national roll out of basic healthcare in El Salvador between 2010 and 2013. Using data from over 120 million consultations and five million hospitalizations, we demonstrate that the expansion of community health teams,...
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The impact of cost-sharing on hospital expenditure in China : a regression discontinuity approach
Lu, Bei; Mi, Hong; Feng, Guanggang; Piggott, John; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585622
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Evaluating and pricing health insurance in lower-income countries : a field experiment in India
Malani, Anup; Kinnan, Cynthia; Conti, Gabriella; Imai, … - 2024
trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India's first national, public hospital insurance program, RSBY. We find …
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Who benefits from free health insurance : evidence from Mexico
Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita - 2023
-related hospital admissions by 7%, and hospital admissions among infants by 6%. There were no impacts on mortality or use of hospitals …
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Long-term care spending and hospital use among the older population in England
Crawford, Rowena; Stoye, George; Zaranko, Ben - 2020
inpatient or outpatient hospital use, and consequently little impact on overall public hospital costs. These results suggest …
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Do hospital mergers reduce waiting times? : theory and evidence from the English NHS
Cirulli, Vanessa; Marini, Giorgia; Marini, Marco; … - 2023
We analyse - theoretically and empirically - the effect of hospital mergers on waiting times in healthcare markets … long panel of data on hospital mergers in the English NHS, where we find that the effects of a merger on waiting times … crucially rely on a legal status that can reasonably be linked to the degree of profit-orientation. Whereas hospital mergers …
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Can helping the sick hurt the able? : incentives, information and disruption in a disability-related welfare reform
Bagaria, Nitika; Petrongolo, Barbara; Van Reenen, John - 2015
Disability rolls have escalated in developed nations over the last 40 years. The UK, however, stands out because the numbers on these benefits stopped rising when a welfare reform was introduced that integrated disability benefits with unemployment insurance (UI). This policy reform improved job...
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Prevention of chronic diseases : reorienting primary health systems in India
Mehdi, Ali; Chaudhry, Divya; Tomar, Priyanka; Joshi, Pallavi - 2016
Individuals should be entitled to a "fair innings", and the primary role of health systems should be the prevention of premature mortality. In India, 66 percent of all deaths are premature. The burden of premature mortality has shifted from child (0-5 years) to adult (30-69 years) level over the...
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Coal revisited
Landsberg, Hans H. - 1988
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