The modern hospital is at once the site of healing, the locus of medical learning and a cornerstone of the welfare … glance to earlier shaping forces. It will explore the hospital's economic history, the relationship between public and … historical world map of different hospital models, ranging across Spain, Brazil, Germany, East and Central Europe, Britain, the …

on a hospital in a rural community where the frequency of utilisation of expensive equipment is possible low, and where … patients may incur transfer costs. Considering both, a rural and an urban hospital, I identify the first-best investment level … of a rural hospital and compare it with the investment levels arising from two payment systems: The Fee-for-service (FFS …