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Mid-Epidemic Case Fatality Rate - The Case of COVID-19 : Reducing the Impact of Wrong Risk Perception
Nath, Purnendu - 2020
In the midst of the current COVID-19 pandemic, the mortality risk being presented by both the media and some public health information providers is often misleading and so increasing the risk of suboptimal policy decisions and lower than desired voluntary compliance rates. We make the following...
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer care in OECD countries
Fujisawa, Rie - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted primary and secondary prevention efforts as well as routine cancer care including diagnosis and treatment. The number of cancer-related procedures declined across countries. Many of the OECD countries also faced challenges in maintaining and further improving...
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Does the Extent of Per-Case Payment System Affect Hospital Efficiency? Evidence from the Italian NHS
Cavalieri, Marina; Guccio, Calogero; Lisi, Domenico; … - 2014
In the last few years there has been an increasing public pressure in many countries to contain costs in the healthcare sector, leading many national governments to introduce some form of prospective payment system and to reduce the scope for global budgeting. In this paper we investigate...
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Impact of policy regulations on the functioning of hospitals in Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic : a qualitative analysis
Masłowski, Dariusz; Kulińska, Ewa; Salwin, Mariusz; … - In: International journal of management and economics 58 (2022) 2, pp. 192-217
During the state of epidemic in Poland in 2020, all facilities providing medical services were subject to constant reorganization. Legal changes, which were introduced at a very rapid pace, did not allow the standardization of the work of the health service. Therefore, the assessment of the...
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Trust as key to health sector reforms
Kulkarni, Vani S.; Kulakarṇi, Vīṇā; Gaiha, Raghav - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 40 (2023) 2, pp. 145-176
Globally, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has sparked unexpected and violent outbursts against doctors, nurses, and other health personnel. In the Indian context, studies on violence against doctors and other medical staff largely focus on supply-demand imbalances in health care,...
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Competition and hospital quality : evidence from a French natural experiment
Gobillon, Laurent; Milcent, Carine - 2017
We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital …
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Do soda taxes affect the consumption and health of school-aged children? : evidence from France and Hungary
Gangl, Selina - 2021 - Revised version
in Europe: Hungary imposed a Public Health Product Tax (PHPT) on several unhealthy products in 2011. France introduced …-parametric Difference-in-Differences (DID) approach. Since the policies differ in Hungary and France, I analyse the effects separately by … beverages, which are taxed at a higher rate, by sodas. The effect of the soda tax in France is as expected negative, but …
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COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake
Karajvanov, Alexander K.; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - 2021
across Canadian provinces in a difference-in-differences approach. Time-series analysis for each province and for France … mandate announcements). We also find large vaccination gains in France (3 to 5 mln first doses), Italy (around 6 mln) and …
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COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake
Karaivanov, Alexander; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - 2022
France, Italy and Germany corroborates this finding. Counterfactual simulations using our estimates suggest the following … for Canada (5 to 13 weeks after the provincial mandate announcements), 8 p.p. (4.3-11) for France (16 weeks post …
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Do soda taxes affect the consumption and health of school-aged children? : evidence from France and Hungary
Gangl, Selina - 2020
: Hungary imposed a "Public Health Product Tax" on several unhealthy products including sodas in 2011. France introduced solely …- parametric difference-in-differences (DID) approach. Since the policies differ in Hungary and France, I analyse the effects … as well as the decreased amount of sugar in sodas. The effect of the soda tax in France is as expected negative, but …
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