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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 quality and efficiency between public and private firms: evidence from ambulance services
Knutsson, Daniel; Tyrefors, Björn - 2020
Economic theory predicts that outsourcing public services to private firms will reduce costs, but the effect on quality is ambiguous. We explore quality differences between publicly and privately owned ambulances in a setting where patients are as good as randomly assigned to ambulances of...
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Public hospital spending in England : evidence from National Health Service administrative records
Kelly, Elaine; Stoye, George; Vera-Hernández, Marcos - 2015
spending is distributed across the population. This paper uses administrative National Health Service (NHS) hospital records to … examine key features of public hospital spending in England. We describe how costs vary across the lifecycle, and the … after age 70. Spending is highly concentrated in a small section of the population: with 32% of all hospital spending …
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Expenditures on healthcare versus health conditions among new member countries of the EU
Leśniowska, Małgorzata; Nedyalkova, Anna - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 10 (2014) 1, pp. 35-48
The aging population, the increasing number of lifestyle diseases and the increasing proportion of difficult-to-cure illnesses in the EU demands the use of modern medicine and modern medical technology. Such a situation leads to an increase of funds spent on the health sector. Therefore the...
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Are doctors better health ministers?
Pilny, Adam; Rösel, Felix - 2020
power to determine hospital capacities and infrastructure. Our results show that physician-trained health ministers increase … hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more … physicians, but with little impact on hospital outputs. As a result, total factor productivity (TFP) growth in hospital care …
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Are doctors better health ministers?
Pilny, Adam; Rösel, Felix - 2020
power to determine hospital capacities and infrastructure. Our results show that physiciantrained health ministers increase … hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more … physicians, but with little impact on hospital outputs. As a result, total factor productivity (TFP) growth in hospital care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012217432
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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation : medical care and public health interventions in early childhood may improve human capital accumulation as well as child hea...
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2015
Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
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Trade in Health Products : Reducing Trade Barriers for Better Health
Helble, Matthias - 2017
Trade in health products has been flourishing in recent years as the demand for better health has been growing throughout the world. At the same time, trade in health products is hampered by substantive trade barriers. In this paper, we present evidence that countries around the world still...
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Will Longer Antimicrobial Patents Improve Global Public Health?
Outterson, Kevin - 2014
The problem of antimicrobial resistance has led some infectious disease experts and their professional societies to propose the use of transferable intellectual property rights (wildcard patents) and patent term extensions as methods to encourage antimicrobial Ramp;D. We evaluate recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751834
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Restoring Health to Health Reform
Gostin, Lawrence O.; Jacobson, Peter D. - 2010
In this article, we discuss the public health provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). We first set forth a framework to identify the key reforms that are needed for a robust public health system. These include workforce and infrastructure investments. We then assess...
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