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efficiency of health centres in Finland between 1990 and 2003. To address potential non-random or endogenous treatment assignment … insignificant on the productive efficiency of health centres. … contrast to earlier studies, this paper approaches the economies of scale issue by analysing the break-ups of municipal health …
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Each year about 20% of the 10 million hospital inpatients in Italy get admitted to hospitals outside the Local Health …
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Moral hazard and adverse selection create inefficiencies in private health insurance markets. The authors use claims … attempted to estimate moral hazard in private health insurance by assuming that individuals respond only to the spot price, end …, economic intuition suggests that the nonlinear budget constraints generated by health insurance plans make these assumptions …
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This research aimed to gain a deeper understanding of how and for what reasons the world trade networks of medical products were reorganized during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. To do this, first, the trade data of eight COVID-19-related product categories (such as medical test kits...
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Telemedicine can expand access to health care at relatively low cost. Historically, however, demand for telemedicine … demand for telemedicine experienced after the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic and the imposition of mobility restrictions. We … find a 233 percent increase in the number of telemedicine calls and a 342 percent increase in calls resulting in a …
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is an important tool of health policy in the Czech Republic and an important goal of Czech health care reforms, as it has …
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We study the political effects of mass emigration to the United States in the 19th century using data from Sweden. To instrument for total emigration over several decades, we exploit severe local frost shocks that sparked an initial wave of emigration, interacted with within-country travel...
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In this case designed for use in a business school, medical center, or health policy program, Kingstar Winning …
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The contraction in health care consumption at the start of the pandemic provides insight into central economic … questions of waste and productivity in the U.S. health care system. Using linked mortality and Electronic Medical Records, we …-year mortality by 29.7 deaths per 10,000 among compliers, implying that a 10% increase in health care appointments reduces mortality …
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Health care spending is increasing worldwide. Many countries are anticipating a health care spending crisis. eHealth is …
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