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Enhanced fee-for-service model and access to physician services: Evidence from Family Health Groups in Ontario
Kantarevic, Jasmin; Kralj, Boris; Weinkauf, Darrel - 2010
We study an enhanced fee-for-service model for primary care physicians in the Family Health Groups (FHG) in Ontario …, Canada. In contrast to the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) model, the FHG model includes targeted fee increases, extended …
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Quality and quantity in primary care mixed payment models: Evidence from family health organizations in Ontario
Kantarevic, Jasmin; Kralj, Boris - 2011
physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of administrative data that covers one year before and two years after the FHO model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278801
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Estimation of the economic opportunity cost of labour: An operational guide for Ghana
Jenkins, Glenn P.; Sogah, Richard; Othman, Abdallah; … - 2023
The implementation of projects often affects employment through direct job creation, indirectly stimulating employment, or increasing labour force participation. These changes in employment have significant benefits and costs to both labour and society. However, the estimation of job creation...
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Renewable energy support through feed-in tariffs: A retrospective stakeholder analysis
Hashemi, Majid; Jenkins, Glenn P.; Milne, Frank - 2023
evaluating the Feed-In Tariff (FIT) program for solar distributed energy resources (DER) in Ontario, Canada. Our analysis reveals … that Ontario's FIT program has successfully promoted the adoption of solar DER across communities. However, the program has …
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Distributed education enables distributed economic impact: The economic contribution of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine to communities in Canada
Hogenbirk, John C.; Robinson, David; Strasser, Roger P. - In: Health Economics Review 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-10
impact of this participation. To provide this information, we estimated the economic impact of the Northern Ontario School of … Ontario region. Methods: Economic impact was estimated by a cash-flow local economic model. Detailed data on program and … learner spending were obtained for Northern Ontario communities. We included spending on NOSM's distributed education and …
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Measuring hospital case mix: Evaluation of alternative approaches for the Irish hospital system
Aisbett, Chris; Wiley, Miriam; McCarthy, Brian; … - 2007
The impetus for this study arose from the need to upgrade the case mix measure of choice in use at the national level in Ireland. Since 1993, various versions of the DRG grouper supported by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) had been in use in Ireland. With improvements in...
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The role of Great Recession on income polarization by population groups
Ricci, Chiara Assunta; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2021
In this paper we use two different non-parametric methods to disentangle the role of Great Recession on income polarization in Italy by population groups (gender, occupational status, education, age, residential area and state of birth). By using data from the Survey on Household Income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417868
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COVID 19 and Wage Polarization: A task based approach
Schettino, Francesco; Scicchitano, Sergio; Suppa, Domenico - 2024
The aim of this paper is to estimate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the wage polarization in Italy, combining individual characteristics with their task content in terms of physical proximity within the workplace. We use an innovative dataset which combines data from two sample surveys,...
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The centre cannot hold: Patterns of polarization in Nigeria
Clementi, Fabio; Dabalen, Andrew L.; Molini, Vasco; … - 2014
Our hypothesis is that Nigeria is going through a process of economic polarization. An analysis of this type is new for Nigeria; the limited availability of comparable data has hindered an investigation that requires data series not too close in time. The present paper tries to overcome this...
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Hospitals and the generic versus brand-name prescription decision in the outpatient sector
Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schober, Thomas - 2016
Healthcare payers try to reduce costs by promoting the use of cheaper generic drugs. We show that there are strong interrelations in drug prescriptions between the inpatient and the outpatient sector using a large administrative dataset from Austria. Patients with prior hospital visits have a...
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