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Does Uninsurance Affect the Health Outcomes of the Insured? Evidence from Heart Attack Patients in California
Meltem Daysal, N. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012
capacity to check how hospitals change their provision of care to insured heart attack patients in response to reduced revenues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092760
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Does uninsurance affect the health outcomes of the insured? Evidence from heart attack patients in California
Daysal, N. Meltem - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 4, pp. 545-563
limitations constrain my capacity to check how hospitals change their provision of care to insured heart attack patients in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010870812
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Our Troubled Health Care System: Why Is It So Hard to Fix? Nineteenth Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy.
Feder, Judy - Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School - 2008
This brief draws heavily on Judith Feder, 2004, "Crowd-Out and the Politics of Health Reform," The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethids 32(3): 461-464. We all know that affordable health care is now back on the political agenda, and it's about time! Because all of us--families, businesses, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005698309
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Health Economics: From Patient to Consumer.
Frech, H.E. - 1996
In the past, the individual using medical care was generally referred to as the "patient", with this word's connotations of an individual who was passive, forbearing and accepting. The emerging view is to look at the individual using medical care as a consumer, with this word's very different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005245507
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The Demsetz Hypothesis and Hospital Markets: An Empirical Analysis.
Frech, H.E.; Mobley, L.R. - 1996
Increased concentration in the hospital industry has been a focus of recent antitrust review of the current wave of hospital mergers. As argued by Demsetz, the potential danger that increased concentration imposes on economic efficiency in any industry turns upon whether the change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005245524
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How Are Government Hospitals Performing? A Study of Resource Management in DOH-retained Hospitals
Lavado, Rouselle F.; Sanglay-Dunleavy, Abigail Barbara; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
hospitals being managed by the DOH. The paper begins with an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines, describing the …-retained hospitals, an analysis of resource management is undertaken by examining the sources of funds, planning and budgeting cycle …, uses of funds, and monitoring set-up. The paper provides a critique of recent policies concerning hospitals as outlined in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365324
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Reflections on the Financing of Hospital Capital : A Canadian Perspective.
Evans, R.G.; Barer, M.L. - University of British Columbia - Centre for Health … - 1990
What is capital? capital is commitment. It can take many forms, including bricks and mortar (physical), trained health care personnel (human), and reseach and development activities (intangible). Capital investment decisions in the health care "industry" seem howver to be relatively inflexible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005641392
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Hospital Efficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa. Evidence from South Africa.
Zere, E. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2000
This study evaluates the technical efficiency and productivity of a sample of public sector hospitals in three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005475006
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The Utilization of Acute Medical Care Beds in Prince Edward Island.
Wright, C.J.; Cardiff, K. - University of British Columbia - Centre for Health … - 1998
The major objectives of this study were to assess the proportion of patients in acute care hospital beds that meet standard criteria requiring acute care services and to document the alternative type or level of care that would be more appropriate for those patients not meeting the criteria.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005671728
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Hospital Financing in Canada.
Barer, M.L. - University of British Columbia - Centre for Health … - 1993
The simple story of Canadian hospital financing --- single-source (tax-based) public funding through provincial Ministries of Health to individual institutions through prospective global budgets -- offers a relatively accurate general picture which, nevertheless, masks both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005671730