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Waiting time distribution in public health care : empirics and theory
Dimakou, Sofia; Dimakou, Ourania; Basso, Henrique S. - In: Health economics review 5 (2015) 25, pp. 1-27
hospitals characteristics that determine waiting times? By developing a model of healthcare provision and analysing empirically … that describes the optimal waiting time distribution for capacity constraint hospitals. Secondly, employing duration … analysis, we obtain empirical representations of that distribution across hospitals in the UK from 1997-2005. We observe …
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Are doctors better health ministers?
Pilny, Adam; Rösel, Felix - 2020
hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214544
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Competition in Health Care Markets
Gaynor, Martin; Town, Robert J - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2012
This chapter reviews the literature devoted to studying markets for health care services and health insurance. There has been tremendous growth and progress in this field. A tremendous amount of new research has been done since the publication of the first volume of this Handbook. In addition,...
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Are doctors better health ministers?
Pilny, Adam; Rösel, Felix - 2020
hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012217432
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A Taxonomy of Cream Skimming in the Provision of Hospital Care
Levaggi, Rosella - 2009
it avoid the problem of misreporting cost, but has the downside effect that, if hospitals might choose which patients to …
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A pharmaceutical innovation : is it worth the money? Whose money?
Sennhauser, Michèle; Zweifel, Peter - 2009
This study seeks to provide evidence for deciding whether or not a pharmaceutical innovation should be included in the benefit list of social health insurance. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted in Germany to measure preferences for modern insulin therapy. Of the 1,100 individuals...
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Demand patterns for treatment insurance in Norway
Aarbu, Karl Ove - 2010
In Scandinavia, the provision of health care services has been, almost entirely, the responsibility of the public health care system. However, in the last five to seven years there has been remarkable growth in the private health care market. These health care services are obtained normally...
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P4P, reputation and the reduction of costly overprovision
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja - 2012
We investigate the effect of reputational motivation on output in a scenario of overprovision of medical treatment. We assume that physicians differ in their degree of altruism, enjoy being perceived as good but dislike being perceived as greedy. We show that better reputational motivation...
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What is driving the rise in health care expenditures? : an inquiry into the nature and causes of the cost disease
Erixon, Fredrik; Van der Marel, Erik - 2011
The last 40 years have seen a rapid increase of government expenditures on public welfare arrangements. Increasing healthcare expenditures form a significant part of these outlays, and its share of total government expenditure has risen rapidly. This paper argues that the determinants of growth...
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Types of private financing of medical care by patients in Poland
Paszkowska, Małgorzata - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 3, pp. 59-74
The share of privately paid medical care is steadily increasing. Polish patients pay immediately for single services and may also privately conclude the contracts for medical insurance or subscription (steady access to complex private medical care). The aim of this paper is to draw the reader's...
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