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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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Competition policy and poverty reduction: A holistic approach
Anderson, Robert D.; Müller, Anna Caroline - 2013
This paper examines the role of competition law and policy as tools for poverty reduction and development. The authors put forward five related principles, building upon the important work on related issues that has been done by the OECD, the International Competition Network (ICN), UNCTAD and...
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Um drengi og stúlkur í íslenska menntakerfinu
2019
matriculation exam each year than men, and this has been the case since 1978. We demonstrate how girls gradually manage (on average … distribution) that they maintain into adulthood. The high dropout rate of boys from secondary education explains why fewer people … encourage girls to excel. …
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The economics of risky health behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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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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