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The value of socialized medicine : the impact of universal primary healthcare provision on birth and mortality rates in Turkey
Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pınar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; … - 2015
This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337077
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Health Priorities for Sustainable Development
Sachs, Lisa; Sachs, Jeffrey D. - 2021
The right to health has been repeatedly recognized as one of the core human rights, essential for human functioning, human dignity, economic well-being, and development. But the right to health continues to elude hundreds of millions and with Covid-19, perhaps billions of people. Poverty remains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248656
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Canadian Medical Tourism : Expanding Opportunities and Reducing Legal Risks for American Healthcare Providers
Cochran, R. Gregory - 2017
After identifying the economic benefits that increased medical tourism from Canada to the United States may confer on the U.S. healthcare market and local economies, this essay analyzes applicable U.S. legal impediments that certain medical tourism arrangements — to wit, those involving a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966873
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A Right to Access to Emergency Health Care : The European Court of Human Rights Pushes the Envelope
Nissen, Aleydis - 2020
This article argues that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) seems to have recently acknowledged that there is a right to access to emergency health care in the member states of the Council of Europe. The Chamber of the ECtHR found that a state’s failure to design a regulatory framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014107983
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Health Care Equity and COVID-19 : Assessing the Relative Effectiveness of Egalitarian Governance and Health System Capacity on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya; Cooray, Arusha V.; De … - 2020
Scholars of public health typically focus on societal equity for explaining public health outcomes. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a spate of studies showing a tight connection between inequitable access to health, welfare services, and adverse outcomes from the pandemic. Others have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014095974
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Germany's Healthcare System : Funding, Resource Allocation, Provider Payment, Efficiency, and Access
Michaeli, Daniel T.; Yagmur, Hasan; Michaeli, Thomas - 2022
health expenditures are rising, outcomes remain average. The co-existence of social and private health insurance leads to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014085051
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C-sections, obesity, and health-care specialization : evidence from Mexico
Herrera, Catalina; Marquez-Padilla, Fernanda; Prina, Silvia - 2023
This study explores whether hospitals with higher increases in obesity levels have higher CS rates and the … consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of … specialization. And it creates a measure of hospital-level obesity, based on the fraction of obesity-related discharges for women of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311942
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Balancing between Efficiency and Equity in Publicly Funded Health Systems
Cerovic, Ljerka - 2017
The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical overview of efficiency and equity and give insights in the Croatian health system. Using selected indicators, a basic descriptive review of efficiency and equity in the Croatian health system was made, with an added comparison to other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952020
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Corporate governance and social impact of non-profits : evidence from a randomized program in healthcare in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Fangwa, Anicet; Flammer, Caroline; Huysentruyt, Marieke; … - 2019
How can non-profit organizations improve their governance to increase their social impact? This study examines the effectiveness of a bundle of governance mechanisms -- consisting of social performance-based incentives combined with auditing and feedback -- in the context of a randomized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012267108
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Radial Measures of Public Services Deficit for Regional Allocation of Public Funds
Puig-Junoy, Jaume - 2000
The goal of this paper is to present an optimal resource allocation model for the regional allocation of public service inputs. The proposed solution leads to maximise the relative public service availability in regions located below the best availability frontier, subject to exogenous budget...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159133