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, the practicing physicians tend to be older and young doctors are becoming less willing to settle in their own surgery. To … cope with these challenges the Regional Associations of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Brandenburg …
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In Germany there is an ongoing debate on the adequate distribution of physicians that are obliged to guarantee the …. From a health economics point of view it has to be discussed which role physicians have to play within different forms of … organizing care and cure. In the paper, a standardized utility function that depicts physicians’ interest helps to figure out the …
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General practitioner (GP) care in Germany is characterized by a disparate distribution of GPs. There is considerable oversupply in many urban areas while there is undersupply in many rural regions. Centralized planning of GP capacities so far has not been able to ameliorate this unequal...
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Since the transformation following the Communist era, Poland has matched improvements in health outcomes of the most developed OECD countries, although without catching up the ground lost during the 1970s and 1980s. The health status of the population remains relatively poor, although after...
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Decision making by physicians on patients' treatment has come under increased public scrutiny. In fact, there is a fair … amount of debate on the effects of marketing actions of pharmaceutical firms toward physicians and their impact on physician … firms to physicians--and patient requests do affect physician decision making differentially across brands. Moreover, they …
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Decision-making by physicians on patients’ treatment has come under increased public scrutiny. In fact, there is a fair … amount of debate on the effects of marketing actions of pharmaceutical firms toward physicians and their impact on physician … firms to physicians – and patient requests do affect physician decision-making differentially across brands. Moreover they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837666
Decision-making by physicians on patients’ treatment has come under increased public scrutiny. In fact, there is a … fair amount of debate on the effects of marketing actions of pharmaceutical firms toward physicians and their impact on … meetings of firms to physicians – and patient requests do affect physician decision-making differentially across brands …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005450952
A dynamic expected utility framework is developed to explore the timing and extent of a physician’s adoption of an … and possibly some inaccuracy. Improvements to the accuracy of the signal do not necessarily cause risk-averse physicians … to scale back adoption prior to the signal’s release — if physicians are confident enough in the innovation’s worth, they …
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Population growth, an unfinished agenda of communicable diseases and maternal health and nutrition, and the rapid rise of Non-communicable diseases are putting increasing strain on not just the Ministry of Health budget, but also the broader financial position of the government as a whole. These...
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Samoa currently faces two important public policy challenges in the health sector. One is to stem, and then reverse, the rapid rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The second challenge is to put the country on a health-financing path that is effective, efficient, and financially affordable...
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