help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public … insurance expenditures. The paper applies various methods for count data analysis of the frequency of hospital trips. Contrary …

help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public … insurance expenditures. The paper applies various methods for count data analysis of the frequency of hospital trips. Contrary …

help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public … insurance expenditures. The paper applies various methods for count data analysis of the frequency of hospital trips. Contrary …

The determinants of the dramatically rising expenditures on health care in general, and on hospital care in particular … by investigating factors determining the demand for hospitalization in Germany. While most previous studies have found a … significant impact of social insurance on the demand for hospital trips, the empirical results presented here cast doubts on the …