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The Value of Socialized Medicine: The Impact of Universal Primary Healthcare Provision on Birth and Mortality Rates in Turkey
Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pınar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; … - 2015
This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...
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Keeping pace with the healthcare transformation: a literature review and research agenda for a new decade of health information systems research
Ostern, Nadine; Perscheid, Guido; Reelitz, Caroline; … - In: Electronic Markets 31 (2021) 4, pp. 901-921
Background Accelerated by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, major and lasting changes are occuring in healthcare structures, impacting people's experiences and value creation in all aspects of their lives. Information systems (IS) research can support analysing and anticipating...
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Should UI eligibility be expanded to low-earning workers? Evidence on employment, transfer receipt, and income from administrative data
Leung, Pauline; O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2015
Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers' access to UI. Although the expansion's aim is to smooth the income and consumption of previously ineligible workers, it is possible that UI benefits simply displace other sources of...
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Do SNAP work requirements work?
Harris, Timothy F. - 2019
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act waived Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) work requirements … the American Community Survey from 2010 to 2016, I analyze the influence of work requirements on employment and SNAP … participation for ABAWD. I find that work requirements significantly decreased SNAP participation and marginally increased …
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Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation
Courtemanche, Charles; Denteh, Augustine; Tchernis, Rusty - 2018
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Pro-gram (SNAP) participation as well as a survey-based measure. We first document substantial … associations between SNAP and food insecurity, obesity, and the Healthy Eating Index. These results serve as a cautionary tale …
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Cross sections are history
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
Although cross section relationships are often taken to indicate causation, and especially the important impact of economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect historical experience, that is, similar leader-follower country patterns for variables that are causally...
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Eine ökonomische Analyse unterschiedlicher Finanzierungsmodelle der Krankenversorgung in Deutschland
Henke, Klaus-Dirk; Borchardt, Katja; Schreyögg, Jonas; … - 2003
Die Debatte über eine Finanzierungsreform des deutschen Krankenversicherungssystems hat in der letzten Zeit viele Konzepte hervorgebracht. Die Vorschläge reichen von der Stabilisierung des Status quo in Form von Kopfpauschalen über die Einführung verschiedener Formen eines...
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Kapitaldeckung als Antwort auf die demographische Herausforderung?
Borchardt, Katja; Farhauer, Oliver - 2003
Die demografische Alterung der Bevölkerung und der medizinisch-technischen Fortschritt als sich verstärkender zirkulär-kausaler Zusammenhang werden bei einer Beibehaltung der derzeitigen Finanzierung des deutschen Gesundheitswesens weitere Ausgabensteigerungen hervorrufen. Durch die...
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Wie lassen sich Gemeinwohl und Wettbewerb in der Krankenversicherung miteinander verbinden? Eine nationale und europaweite Herausforderung
Henke, Klaus-Dirk - 2003
Entsprechend der Themenfrage wird zunächst untersucht, wie sich Gemeinwohl und Wettbewerb als Ziele in einer privaten und gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung operationalisieren lassen. Nach der Darstellung einer ordnungspolitischen Reform der nKrankenversorgung erfolgt eine Einbettung der Thematik...
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A concern about low relative income, and the alignment of utilitarianism with egalitarianism
Stark, Oded; Kobus, Martyna; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011
A utilitarian social planner who maximizes social welfare assigns the available income to those who are most efficient in converting income into utility. However, when individuals are concerned about their income falling behind the incomes of others, the optimal income distribution under...
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