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Belgium: Enhancing the Cost Efficiency and Flexibility of the Health Sector to Adjust to Population Ageing
Sorbe, Stéphane - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Belgium has a good record in delivering accessible care, but adaptation to population ageing will be complicated by the fragmentation of responsibilities in the healthcare system and a strong reliance on government regulations. The organisation of the system could be rationalised by giving...
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Economic Policy in Health Care: Sickness Absence and Pharmaceutical Cost
Granlund, David - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2007
generic pharmaceuticals during the first four years after the reform. The results also show that the price adjustment was not …
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Critical Condition: A Historian's Prognosis on Canada's Aging Healthcare System
Bliss, Michael - C. D. Howe Institute - 2010
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Better Value for Money in Healthcare: European Lessons for Canada
Blomqvist, Ake; Busby, Colin - In: C.D. Howe Institute Commentary (2012) 339
Modern health systems, like Canada’s, face similar pressures. Populations are aging, government revenues are dwindling … to health policy development in Canada. …
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Patient choice and the effects of hospital market structure on mortality for AMI, hip fracture and stroke patients
Gravelle, Hugh; Moscelli, Giuseppe; Santos, Rita; … - Centre for Health Economics, Department of Economics … - 2014
We examine (a) the effect of market structure on the level of mortality for AMI, hip fracture, and stroke between 2002/3 and 2010/11 and (b) whether this effect changed after the introduction of Choice policy in 2006 which gave patients the right to a wider choice of hospital. For AMI and hip...
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The Health Care Crisis in the United States: The Issues and Proposed Solutions by the 2008 Presidential Candidates
Pareto, Marcos Pompeu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
that free-market competition should prevail. Contrarily, the other side claims that the system is only nominally a free …
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Essais sur la qualité des soins : approches en économie et en santé publique
Bahrami, Stéphane - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
pathologies in the for profit sector. Competition for quality may thus not be a feasible regulation approach for French public … similar definitions of the concept but explore differing and complementary approaches towards its regulation.Fixed price … competition between hospitals, as implemented by a prospective payment system, should lead to an improvement of care quality …
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The Welfare Impact of Reducing Choice in Medicare Part D: A Comparison of Two Regulation Strategies
Lucarelli, Claudio; Prince, Jeffrey T.; Simon, Kosali - Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, … - 2009
of the average monthly premium in order to justify a regulation that allows only two plans per firm. However, this number …
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The Effect of a Hospital Nurse Staffing Mandate on Patient Health Outcomes: Evidence from California’s Minimum Staffing Regulation
Cook, Andrew; Gaynor, Martin; Melvin Stephens, Jr.; … - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2012
We evaluate the impact of California Assembly Bill 394, which mandated maximum levels of patients per nurse in the hospital setting. When the law was passed, some hospitals already met the requirements, while others did not. Thus changes in staffing ratios from the pre- to post-mandate periods...
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Sağlıkta Dönüşümün Ampirik Analizi
Celikay, Ferdi; Gumus, Erdal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The efficiency of Turkish health system, which was restructured by the health transformation framework, depends on the mutual compliance of both health service providers and demanders. The future and success of the new health system may be determined by solving problems that were generated from...
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