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How confidence in health care systems affects mobility and compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic
Chan, Ho Fai; Brumpton, Martin; Macintyre, Alison; … - 2020
Trust in the health care system requires being confident that sufficient and appropriate treatments will be provided if needed. The COVID-19 public health crisis is a significant, global, and (mostly) simultaneous test of the behavioral implications arising from this trust. We explore whether...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014536287
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The digital transformation of health services after the COVID-19 pandemic : an evaluation of telemedicine policies in the United States
Caferra, Rocco; Di Liddo, Giuseppe; Morone, Andrea; … - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046734
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Static and dynamic efficiency of irreversible health care investments under alternative payment rules
Levaggi, Rosella; Moretto, Michele; Pertile, Paolo - 2010
The paper studies the incentive for providers to invest in new health care technologies under alternative payment systems, when the patients' benefits are uncertain. If the reimbursement by the purchaser includes both a variable (per patient) and a lump-sum component, efficiency can be ensured...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008746927
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of early access to medical and social care for migrants living with HIV in France
Guillon, Marlène; Celse, Michel; Geoffard, Pierre-Yves - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302495
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Investing in health infrastructure : how decentralization matters
Dafflon, Bernard; Vaillancourt, François - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010237732
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Are patients and relatives the better innovators? : the case of medical smartphone applications
Goeldner, Moritz; Herstatt, Cornelius - 2016
innovative contributions of intermediate and end users that have been sold and evaluated within the healthcare sector. Several … studies in the healthcare sector have shown that healthcare professionals are an important source of innovation. Yet, to date … ultimately of other patients' therapy. We analyze innovations of producers, healthcare professionals, patients, and relatives in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437131
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Universalizing health care in Brazil : opportunities and challenges
Avila Viana, Ana L. d'; Silva, Hudson Pacífico da; I, … - 2015
In 1988, the Brazilian Constitution established the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, or SUS), based on universal access to health services, with health defined as a citizenś right, and access to health services as an obligation of the state. Since then, Brazil has adopted a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483992
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Universal health coverage : the case of China
Hsiao, William C.; Li, Mingqiang; Zhang, Shufang - 2015
In less than a decade, China transformed its inadequate, unjust health care system in order to provide basic universal health coverage (UHC) for its people. What forces made it possible for China to achieve this? What kind of transformation took place? What are the impacts of these policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483999
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Constraints on universal health care in the Russian Federation : inequality, informality and the failures of mandatory health insurance reforms
Cook, Linda - 2015
Healthcare in Russia has gone through many transformative stages, from a Soviet-era model of public provision to an … now a mix of both public and private healthcare provision operates across Russia. Throughout all these periods … access, and substantial inequalities in healthcare access and quality exist across different regions and income groups, with …
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