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We investigate the density of private physicians in a two-tiered health care system, i.e., one with co-existing public … and private health care providers. In particular, we analyze how the densities of private and public suppliers of … outpatient health care (general practitioners and specialists) are related to each other. Using a panel of 121 Austrian districts …
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werden kann. Zudem wird untersucht, wie das Geschlecht der Pendler auf diesen Zusammenhang wirkt. Analysen auf Basis des … commuters' subjective perception of stress. In addition, it is also taken into account how the commuters' gender may influence …
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producing health care. Specifically, we use a large set of private insurance claims from the FAIR Health database to show that …
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big public hospital in Italy we estimate a model for the exact time of delivery as driven by individual indication to …
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Using the World Management Survey method, we map and analyse management quality in Swedish primary care centres. On average, private providers have higher management quality than public ones. We also find that centres with a high overall social deprivation among enrolled patients tend to have...
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Our paper investigates the geographical distribution of physicians across the Swiss cantons over the years 1960 to 2005. We use a physician location model relating physician growth in a canton related to (i) the existing number of physicians in an area, (ii) commonly used determinants of the...
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In the home-care services industry, caregivers drive to visit patients scattered in a district and deliver various care services at the patient's home. We use a unique data set, with a standard panel structure, recording the hours of service and the exact number of miles traveled by each...
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The paper describes the issue of the impact of poverty and income inequality on the health of the population using … health to the disadvantage of the poor, and to changes in impoverishment and income inequality associated with payments for … health care. After demonstrating the logic of the investigation, the paper recapitulates the information about results of …
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This paper deals with the phenomenon of risk-selection and its appearance in the german compulsory health insurance …
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's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health. …
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