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Physicians as Double Agents in a Universal Health Care System : Evidence from Generic Pharmaceutical Adoption in Taiwan
Tang, Meng-Chi - 2016
Physicians’ generic pharmaceutical adoption involves not only patients’ and insurance payers’ cost, but also their own … interests. This study examines this double agency problem for physicians by using Taiwanese data because two of its … institutional features: First, patients and physicians in a universal health care system did not self-select their insurance plans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014129240
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Vaccine-skeptic physicians and COVID-19 vaccination rates
Steinmayr, Andreas; Rossi, Manuel - 2022
from the signatories of an open letter in which 199 Austrian physicians expressed their skepticism about COVID-19 vaccines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013443708
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Vaccine-skeptic physicians and COVID-19 vaccination rates
Steinmayr, Andreas; Rossi, Manuel - 2022
from the signatories of an open letter in which 199 Austrian physicians expressed their skepticism about COVID-19 vaccines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013459583
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Trade in health products : reducing trade barriers for better health
Helble, Matthias; Shepherd, Benjamin - 2017
availability of health-related products such as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and medical equipment. The case for liberalizing trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591118
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Physician density in a two-tiered health care system
Gächter, Martin; Schwazer, Peter; Theurl, Engelbert; … - 2011
We investigate the density of private physicians in a two-tiered health care system, i.e., one with co-existing public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009731103
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The Healer or the Druggist : Effects of Two Health Care Policies in Taiwan on Elderly Patients’ Choice between Physician and Pharmacist Services
Chang, Simon - 2012
Physicians and pharmacists in Taiwan both prescribed and dispensed drugs; many elderly people considered the two types … citizens and a separation policy (SP) that forbids physicians from dispensing and pharmacists from prescribing drugs. I find … visited pharmacists become more likely to also visit physicians after NHI was implemented. On the other hand, through legal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014172279
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Gatekeeping in Health Care
Brekke, Kurt Richard; Nuscheler, Robert; Straume, Odd Rune - 2021
We study the competitive effects of restricting direct access to secondary care by gatekeeping, focusing on the informational role of general practitioners (GPs). In the secondary care market there are two hospitals choosing quality and specialisation. Patients, who are ex ante uninformed, can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318198
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Improving the Czech health care system
Fall, Falilou; Glocker, Daniela - 2018
The Czech health care system is doing well in terms of health outcomes compared to other Central East European economies that inherited similar health systems after the transition and has been converging to OECD averages. However, benchmarking the Czech health system to countries with comparable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995780
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Excessive Pharmaceutical Prices and Competition Law : Doctrinal Development to Protect Public Health
Abbott, Frederick M. - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970248
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Financing Vaccines for Global Health Security
Vu, Jonathan - 2020
Recent outbreaks of infectious pathogens such as Zika, Ebola, and COVID-19 have underscored the need for the dependable availability of vaccines against emerging infectious diseases (EIDs). The cost and risk of R&D programs and uniquely unpredictable demand for EID vaccines have discouraged...
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