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Healthcare Spending : The Role of Healthcare Institutions from an International Perspective
Titeca, Hannes - 2016
Healthcare systems differ greatly across the world, however, it appears that the extent of public insurance (publicly/government funded healthcare) is the only institutional characteristic that plays a significant role in accounting for the large disparities in total healthcare spending. Other...
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New joints : private providers and rising demand in the English National Health Service
Kelly, Elaine; Stoye, George - 2015
This paper investigates how changes in hospital choice sets affect levels of patient demand for elective hospital care. We exploit a set of reforms in England that opened up the market for publicly-funded patients to private hospitals. Impacts on demand are estimated using variation in distance...
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Saving the public from the private? : incentives and outcomes in dual practice
Kuhn, Michael; Nuscheler, Robert - 2013
We consider a setting of dual practice, where a physician offers free public treatment and, if allowed, a private treatment for which patients have to pay out of pocket. Private treatment is superior in terms of health outcomes but more costly and time intensive. For the latter reason it...
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New joints : private providers and rising demand in the English national health service
Kelly, Elaine; Stoye, George - 2016 - This is an updated version of W15/22
Reforms to public services have extended consumer choice by allowing for the entry of private providers. The aim is to generate competitive pressure to improve quality when consumers choose between providers. However, for many services new entrants could also affect whether a consumer demands...
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Public Versus Private Health Care in a National Health Service
Brekke, Kurt Richard; Sorgard, Lars - 2021
This paper studies the interaction between public and private health care provision in a National Health Service (NHS), with free public care and costly private care. The health authority decides whether or not to allow private provision and sets the public sector remuneration. The physicians...
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Some Models and Evidences on the Coexistence between For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Hospitals in the Brazilian National Health System
Marinho, Alexandre - 2011
results of ownership-induced differences in hospital mortality rates within the SUS …
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Chapter 21 Not-for-profit ownership and hospital behavior
Sloan, Frank A. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1141-1174). 2000
contrast, for-profit chains have made few inroads in other countries. The literature on hospital ownership addresses three …. Reasons involve: transactions costs of various ownership forms; fiduciary relationships between patients and providers; public … various ownership forms must provide a partial explanation for observed patterns of hospital ownership. There is a rich …
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Origins and Developments of Public-Private Partnerships in the Health Care Systems in Developed Countries : Principles, Stakes, and Institutional Challenges
Sanni Yaya, Hachimi - 2005
The public-private partnership (PPP) is a trendy model in public administration. It is moved by a dynamic in which the modern welfare State steps back in favor of a strategist State whose objectives of general interest are met relying on both public and private economic sectors. In an era that...
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How Do Hospital-Specialty Characteristics Influence Health System Responsiveness? An Empirical Evaluation of In-Patient Care in the Italian Region of Emilia-Romagna
Fiorentini, Gianluca - 2016
Several studies of health system responsiveness focus on the demand-side by investigating the association between socio-demographic characteristics of patients and their reported level of responsiveness. However, little is known about the influence of supply-side factors. This paper addresses...
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Are bad health and pain making us grumpy? : an empirical evaluation of reporting heterogeneity in rating health system responsiveness
Fiorentini, Gianluca; Ragazzi, Giovanni; Robone, Silvana - 2014
This paper considers the influence of patients' characteristics on their evaluation of a health system's responsiveness, that is, a system's ability to respond to the legitimate expectations of potential users regarding non-health enhancing aspects of care (Valentine et al. 2003a). Since...
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