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Health Financing Mechanisms, Access to Health and Economic Growth
Bender, Katja - Institut für Entwicklungsforschung und … - 2011
The paper analyzes the comparative effects of alternative health financing mechanisms on economic growth within a two-sector model with human capital. The transitional growth effects of a social insurance system are stronger than those of an out-of-pocket payment system. A private health...
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Mit maerkischen Innovationen die ambulante Versorgung gestalten
Helming, Hans-Joachim - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 63 (2014) 3, pp. 282-292
, the practicing physicians tend to be older and young doctors are becoming less willing to settle in their own surgery. To … cope with these challenges the Regional Associations of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Brandenburg …
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Aerztemangel im laendlichen Raum – Neue Anreizstrukturen und innovative Versorgungsmodelle als Ausweg? Zur Bedeutung einer patientenorientierten Steuerung
Zerth, Jürgen - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 63 (2014) 3, pp. 269-281
In Germany there is an ongoing debate on the adequate distribution of physicians that are obliged to guarantee the …. From a health economics point of view it has to be discussed which role physicians have to play within different forms of … organizing care and cure. In the paper, a standardized utility function that depicts physicians’ interest helps to figure out the …
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Rahmenbedingungen fuer eine effektive Versorgungssteuerung in Stadt und Land
Greß, Stefan; Stegmüller, Klaus - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 63 (2014) 3, pp. 259-268
General practitioner (GP) care in Germany is characterized by a disparate distribution of GPs. There is considerable oversupply in many urban areas while there is undersupply in many rural regions. Centralized planning of GP capacities so far has not been able to ameliorate this unequal...
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Government Health Expenditures and Economic Growth: A Feder–Ram Approach for the Case of Turkey
Kurt, Serdar - In: International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues 5 (2015) 2, pp. 441-447
This paper aims to test the direct and indirect (external) effects of health expenditures on economic growth using the Feder–Ram model. It uses aggregate and manufacturing industrial production as total output, total government health expenditures, general government cure and pharmaceutical...
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Nuove politiche per l'innovazione nel settore delle scienze della vita
Magazzini, Laura; Pammolli, Fabio; Riccaboni, Massimo - CERM - Competitività, Regole, Mercati - 2009
Le malattie rare, che colpiscono pochi pazienti nei Paesi sviluppati nonché quelle dimenticate del Terzo Mondo, rappresentano la nuova frontiera della ricerca biomedica, una delle sfide più pressanti alla globalizzazione dei diritti dei malati, e anche un'importante occasione di crescita...
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Health Expendıtures and Economıc Growth: Evıdence from G8 Countries
Ozturk, Serdar; Topcu, Ebru - In: International Journal of Economics and Empirical … 2 (2014) 6, pp. 256-261
Health-growth literature generally includes studies on developing countries. Unlike previous health-growth literature, this paper investigates this issue in context of developed countries, G8 countries, within a panel framework. Annual data ranging from 1995 to 2012 are used for this...
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Growth and welfare effects of health care in knowledge based economies
Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - Institut für Wirtschaftsmathematik, Technische … - 2012
We study the effects of a labor-intensive health care sector within an R&D-driven growth model with overlapping generations. Health care increases longevity and labor participation/productivity. We examine under which conditions expanding health care enhances growth and welfare. Even if the...
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Growth and welfare effects of health care in knowledge based economies
Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2012
We study the effects of a labor-intensive health care sector within an R&D-driven growth model with overlapping generations. Health care increases longevity and labor participation/productivity. We examine under which conditions expanding health care enhances growth and welfare. Even if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561764
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On Goals and Measures of Health Care Reform in Russia
A. Aganbegyan. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 2 (2014)
The article contains measures aimed at deepening health care reform. It is necessary to turn to program-target management of this sector, improve the quality of functioning of medical organizations. In order to make medical services more affordable it is expedient to develop telemedicine net,...
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