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Help Wanted : How to Address Labour Shortages in Healthcare and Improve Patient Access

Wyonch, Rosalie - 2021

To address a pandemic, preserving and maintaining the healthcare system’s capacity is critical. This Commentary evaluates factors contributing to healthcare labour shortages and investigates the inter-relationships between access to health services, the number of healthcare providers,...

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U.S. Health Care : Too Much of a Good Thing?

Randall, Maury R.; Suk, David Y.; McCarthy, Kristin - 2021

This paper provides a critique of the U.S. Health Care system compared to other OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) nations and extends the work of previous research in four ways. First, we identify which OECD countries have better longevity outcomes than other OECD...

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Health Care Expenses in Retirement and the Use of Health Savings Accounts

Fronstin, Paul; Salisbury, Dallas - 2004

The new Medicare drug law that was enacted in late 2003 makes two changes that supporters of the law say should make it easier for today's workers to prepare to pay the medical bills they will confront in retirement: prescription drug benefits (the new Medicare Part D) and health savings...

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The economic consequences of an ageing population in Slovenia

Walkenhorst, Peter; Sila, Urban - 2015

strengthen labour force participation. In particular, further increases in the relatively low pension age in line with the rise … in life expectancy would reduce pension costs and the burden on the active population. Better utilisation of medical …

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COVID-19 and Health Care’s Digital Technology Revolution

A.Narasima Venkatesh, Dr - 2021

COVID-19’s affliction has spared none regardless of country, economy, rich or poor, child or old age, salaried or entrepreneur, celebrity or common man, actor or politician, Policeman or thief, Teacher or student, Doctor or Patient. With the nature of high transmissibility and absence of...

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Pension and health services utilization: evidence from social pension expansion in China

Chen, Shanquan; Chen, Xi; Law, Stephen; Lucas, Henry; … - 2020

utilization, and estimates the size of pension required to influence such utilization. Using a nationally representative survey … undertook segmented regression analysis. Pension demonstrated heterogeneous effects on health service utilization by income. We … show that pension encouraged low-income individuals to use both outpatient (OR = 1.219, 95% 1.018-1.460) and inpatient …

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