This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...

We study patient mobility in the Italian National Health System, using patient-episode level data on elective Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty procedures over the years 2008-2011. We examine how patients' choice of the hospital is affected by changes in waiting times and clinical...

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Universal health coverage (UHC) is an integral part of the United Nations' sustainable development goals. The private sector plays a prominent role in achieving UHC, being the primary source of essential medicines for many people. However, many private healthcare facilities in low- and...

The Healthcare Openness and Access Project (HOAP) is a collection of state-by-state comparative data on the flexibility and discretion that US patients and providers have in seeking and delivering healthcare. HOAP combines these data to produce 41 indicators of openness and accessibility. In...

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...

After approximately 30 years, and following a decisive move towards integrated care systems, competition reforms in English healthcare seem to be rejected, even though the underlying relationship between the public healthcare system and private healthcare market remains. This paper explains how...

The right to health has been repeatedly recognized as one of the core human rights, essential for human functioning, human dignity, economic well-being, and development. But the right to health continues to elude hundreds of millions and with Covid-19, perhaps billions of people. Poverty remains...

Health is not characterized only by the absence of disease; nowadays, health can be perceived as a human right. Health policies all over the world aim to increase the life expectancy, the health, and the quality of life of citizens, within the limits of the available resources. In this opinion...

Markov-based and discrete event simulation models are widely used in health economic analysis to estimate the long term effects of treatment on clinical and economic outcomes. However, none of them simultaneously integrate patients' economic resources and their medical decision making in the...