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Does competition increase economic efficiency in Swedish county councils?

Rudholm, Nikas; Nordmark, Arvid; Marklund, Per-Olov - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 77-91

The Swedish health care system is to a large extent publicly managed by 21 local county councils. During recent years there has been a movement were local county councils have opted to allow more of the production to be performed by alternative producers (i.e. private firms, cooperatives etc.)....

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Internet addiction among Greek university students : demographic associations with the phenomenon, using the Greek version of young's Internet addiction rest

Frangos, Christos C.; Frangos, Constantinos C.; Kiohos, … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 1, pp. 49-74

is to estimate the percentage of IA among Greek university students. Results of a sample survey among 1876 Greek … university students, 18-27 years old, are presented. The questionnaire consisted of eight questions from Young's Diagnostic Test … indicating a need for intervention in order to prevent the appearance of IA. -- Greece ; university students ; Internet addiction …

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A modified Kakwani measure for health inequality

Fjugushige, Mototsugu; Ishikawa, Noriko; Maekawa, Satoko - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 10, pp. 1-7

We propose simple modifications for the Kakwani tax progressivity measure that make it suitable for evaluating access inequality for medical services. Our modification is to measure inequality using the ratio of the concentration index to the Gini coefficient instead of the difference between...

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Determinants of maternal healthcare utilization in Zimbabwe

Muchabaiwa, Lazarus; Mazambani, D.; Chigusiwa, L.; Bindu, S. - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 2, pp. 145-162

Zimbabwe and other developing countries struggle to achieve millennium development goals originally set for 2015. To assist health policy making, there was an investigation of how demographic, socioeconomic and cultural factors determine maternal healthcare services use in Zimbabwe. A logistic...

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