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Health Care in Sri Lanka : What Can the Private Health Sector Offer?
Govindaraj, Ramesh; Navaratne, Kumari; Cavagnero, Eleonora - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This review represents an attempt to bridge the significant knowledge gaps on the private health sector in Sri Lanka, and foster a dialogue on opportunities for collaboration between the government and the private sector. It accomplishes this through a systematic collection and analysis of...
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Sustaining Universal Health Coverage in France: A Perpetual Challenge
Barroy, Helene; Or, Zeynep; Kumar, Ankit; Bernstein, David - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
While universal health coverage (UHC) offers a powerful goal for a nation, all countries-irrespective of income are struggling with achieving or sustaining UHC. France is a high-income country where HC is in effect universal. Health-related costs are covered by a mix of mandatory social health...
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Vietnam: Learning from Smart Reforms on the Road to Universal Health Coverage
Barroy, Helene; Jarawan, Eva; Bales, Sarah - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Universal Health Coverage is a powerful framework for a nation aiming to protect their population against health risks. However, countries face multiple challenges in implementing, achieving and sustaining UHC strategies. Sharing and learning from diverse country experiences may enable to foster...
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Receiving mandated therapeutic services: Experiences of parents involved in the child welfare system
Estefan, Lianne Fuino; Coulter, Martha L.; VandeWeerd, … - In: Children and Youth Services Review 34 (2012) 12, pp. 2353-2360
Parents involved with child welfare services are often mandated to attend a variety of therapeutic services based on the stressors they face. Despite the need to understand how to best offer services to parents, there is limited research that examines parents' experiences with and barriers to...
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Five Years of NRHM 2005-2010
Health, Ministry of; Welfare, Family - eSocialSciences - 2010
Health is a State subject and the Government of India has always tried to work in partnership with states to meet people's needs. As the report will indicate, it is through this partnership with constant monitoring and support that they have provided for increasing the out-patient cases,...
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Employee referral, social proximity and worker discipline
Dhillon, Amrita; Iversen, Vegard; Torsvik, Gaute - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2012
referrals rather than anonymous hiring and will show a wage premium to referred workers matched by their higher productivity …. This no longer applies if the referee's utility is decreasing in the strength of ties: referrals are then more costly for …
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Overcoming moral hazard with social networks in the workplace: An experimental approach
Dhillon, Amrita; Peeters, Ronald; Yuksel, Ayse Muge - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2014
that employers choose referrals over anonymous hiring about 80% of the time. In keeping with our predictions, referrers …
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Referral-based Job Search Networks
dustmann, christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Schönberg, Uta - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011
This paper develops a model and derives novel testable implications of referral-based job search networks in which employees provide employers with information about potential job market candidates that they otherwise would not have. Using unique matched employeremployee data that cover the...
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Overcoming Moral Hazard with Social Networks in the Worksplace: An Experimental Approach
Dhillon, Amrita; Peeters, Ronald; Muge Yukse, Ayse - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2014
among workers with dierent degrees of social proximity to themselves. We show that employers choose referrals over anonymous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757449
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Patient Admission Patterns and Acquisitions of "Feeder" Hospitals
Nakamura, Sayaka; Capps, Cory; Dranove, David - Antitrust Division, Department of Justice - 2007
referrals. Sophisticated acquirers may even attempt to concentrate additional referrals among more profitable patients. We … period for such transactions. We compare changes in referrals of patients from target market areas to changes in a matched … referrals to the acquirer. Very few acquisitions were followed by decreases in referrals. When acquisitions did lead to …
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