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Plan selection in Medicare Part D : evidence from administrative data
Heiss, Florian; Leive, Adam; McFadden, Daniel; Winter, … - 2012
premiums and out-of-pocket (OOP) copayments for prescriptions; we term the sum of these Consumer Inclusive Cost (CIC). We can … plans that are ex post optimal with respect to total cost (premiums and co-payments). Relative to the benchmark of a static …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009666978
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The impact of agglomeration economies on hospital input prices
Friedson, Andrew I.; Li, Jing - In: Health Economics Review 5 (2015) 38, pp. 1-15
an increasing spatial concentration of hospital services results in a decreased cost of obtaining intermediate medical … services. We explicitly test whether the reduced cost at concentrated locations arises from the ability to share intermediate … influence the cost of intermediate services only through the cost of running a lab. Our findings suggest that agglomeration of …
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Selviytymistä vai suorituskykyä? Terveydenhuolto organisoinnin, tiedonhallinnan ja henkilökunnan kannalta
Kauhanen, Antti; Kulvik, Martti; Maijanen, Sirpa; … - 2013
This report is an overview to the presentations and discussions in the seminar Survival or performance? Healthcare viewed through organization, information management, and personnel held on 3.9.2012. The seminar provided an interdisciplinary forum for the question how the health care system may...
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Tehokkuus ja työhyvinvointi: Tiedolla kohti tasapainoista työtä
Kuusi, Tero; Kulvik, Martti; Härmä, Mikko; Ropponen, … - 2023
This project investigated how register data on daily working hours and hospital patients can be used to measure the workload of healthcare personnel and to study its relationship with different work features. We used econometric analysis to measure the average labor requirement of different...
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Health economics for low-income countries
Mwabu, Germano M. - 2007
Good health is a determinant of economic growth and a component of well-being. This paper discusses and synthesizes economic models of individual and household behavior, showing how they may be used to illuminate health policy making in low-income countries. The models could help address...
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The production of child health in Kenya : a structural model of birth weight
Mwabu, Germano M. - 2008
The paper investigates birth weight and its correlates in Kenya using nationally representative data collected by the government in the early 1990s. I find that immunization of the mother against tetanus during pregnancy is strongly associated with improvements in birth weight. Other factors...
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Versorgung von HIV-Patienten in Deutschland: Herausforderungen der Zukunft
Claes, Christa; Mittendorf, Thomas; Stoll, Matthias - 2009
Als Folge der jüngsten gesundheitspolitischen Reformen in Deutschland scheint ein Wandel in der HIV-Versorgungsstruktur unumgänglich. Vor diesem Hintergrund widmeten sich im November 2008 unterschiedliche Interessenvertreter in einem Workshop der Identifikation und Diskussion zukünftiger...
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A pharmaceutical innovation : is it worth the money? Whose money?
Sennhauser, Michèle; Zweifel, Peter - 2009
treatment cost in both financing alternatives, justifying inclusion of the innovation in the benefit list from a cost …
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Is there an age pattern in the treatment of AMI? : evidence from Ontario
Grignon, Michel; Spencer, Byron G.; Wang, Li - 2010
In this article we analyse the rates at which those admitted to hospital with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) receive aggressive treatment, assess how those rates have changed over time, and ask whether there is evidence of age discrepancies. Estimates made on the basis of data from an...
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The ART of life : IVF or child adoption?
Gumus, Gulcin; Lee, Jungmin - 2010
This paper analyzes the effects of child adoption on the utilization of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in the US. Using state-level longitudinal data for 1999-2006, we show that ART use is responsive to changes in adoption markets. Controlling for state-specific fixed effects, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940438