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Are There "Ratatouille" Restaurants? On Anticorrelation of Food Quality and Hygiene
Yoshimoto, Hisayuki - 2020
We study the empirical relationship between hygiene conditions in restaurants and their food quality rated by … restaurants in our dataset have poor hygiene conditions, while the same is true for only 2% of non-Michelin starred restaurants …. Our findings illuminate potential channels through which the anticorrelation between food quality and hygiene could be …
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The Effect of Information on Product Quality : Evidence from Restaurant Hygiene Grade Cards
Jin, Ginger Zhe; Leslie, Phillip - 2002
quality. In 1998, Los Angeles County introduced hygiene quality grade cards to be displayed in restaurant windows. We show … changes in restaurants' hygiene quality, and (iii) the number of foodborne illness hospitalizations to decrease. These results … imply the grade cards cause restaurants to make hygiene quality improvements. The regulatory change also provides an …
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Grenzen des Wettbewerbs im Gesundheitswesen
Kumpmann, Ingmar (contributor) - 2008
Many health economists demand more competition in the health care system. They focus on the competition between sickness funds for insured and the competition between health care providers for contracts with sickness funds. But they neglect the competition between health care providers for...
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Do market incentives for hospitals affect health and service utilization? : evidence from PPS-DRG tariffs in Italian regions
Cappellari, Lorenzo; De Paoli, Anna; Turati, Gilberto - 2016
We exploit variation across Italian Regions in the implementation of region-specific tariffs within a Prospective Pay System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health care services. We consider survey data for the years...
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The impact of free GP care on the utilisation of GP services in Ireland : an evaluation of different approaches
Gorecki, Paul K. - 2016
The successful implementation of free GP care for all private patients in Ireland requires an estimate of the likely change in the number of GP visits occasioned by this policy so as: (i) to set the capitation fee; and (ii) to ensure adequate supply of GPs is in place. The paper examines two...
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Altruism heterogeneity and quality competition among healthcare providers
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja - 2014
New empirical evidence shows substantial heterogeneity in the altruism of healthcare providers. Spurred by this evidence, we build a spatial quality competition model with altruism heterogeneity. We find that more altruistic healthcare providers supply relatively higher quality levels and...
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Specification of Financial Incentives for Quality in Health Care Contracts
Fichera, Eleonora - 2013
We consider how purchasers and providers negotiate the quality element of contracts when the purchasers are required to link a fixed proportion of revenue to quality. A simple model predicts that the complexity of the quality element will depend on purchaser and provider characteristics. Using...
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Assessment of Service Quality Dimensions in Healthcare Industry 'A Comparative Study on Patient’s Satisfaction with Mayiladuthurai Taluk Government vs. Private Hospitals'
Edison Anthony Raj, Arul - 2019
Average service quality perception toward Government hospitals lead to increasing demand for good quality Government health care in Mayiladuthurai Taluk. Observing the growth of private health care sector, highly number of patients get satisfied with the service quality of private hospitals in...
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Perceived Quality of Public and Private Health Care Services : A Comparative Assessment in Rural West Bengal, India
Mazumdar, Sumit - 2014
The paper reports findings from a quality assessment exercise based on respondents' perceptions on different domains of service quality in a comparative manner between public and private health facilities in rural West Bengal, India. Based on a sample survey, and a combination of ex-ante and...
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Sociodemographic Factors Influencing Vietnamese Patient Satisfaction with Healthcare Services and Some Meaningful Empirical Thresholds
Vuong, Quan Hoang - 2018
Background: This short communication report some new results obtained from a medical survey among 900 Vietnamese patients in 2015, looking into possibly influential sociodemographic factors as far as patient satisfaction is concerned, to establish empirical relationships between them for policy...
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