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Three essays on health care

Shigeoka, Hitoshi - 2012

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Exploring the causal relationship between hospital length of stay and re-hospitalization among Japanese AMI patients

Shimizutani, Satoshi; Yamada, Hiroyuki; Noguchi, Haruko; … - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 22/24, pp. 2307-2325

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Effect of reducing cost sharing for outpatient care on children's inpatient services in Japan

Kato, Hirotaka; Goto, Rei - In: Health economics review 7 (2017) 28, pp. 1-10

investigates the effects of reducing cost sharing for outpatient services on hospital admissions by exploring a subsidy policy for … hospital admissions, although this effect varies by region. The subsidy reduces the number of overall admissions in low …

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No Toyotas in Health Care : Why Medical Care Has Not Evolved to Meet Patients' Needs

Coye, Molly Joel - 2002

The incentives and structure of health care in the United States produce exactly what we should expect in the quality of care for chronic disease: highly variable patterns of care and widespread failure to implement evidence-based best practices. The persistent inability of providers to improve...

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An Empirical Examination of Health Care Constraints on Outpatients in Japan

Kumagai, Narimasa - 2007

hospital bed reduction by the government. The cost-sharing rule of Government-managed Health Insurance (GHI) changed in … and Hospital Report" of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, respectively. The rate of doctors' consultations, the …

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Medical Assistance System and Inpatient Health Care Utilization : Empirical Evidence from Short-term Hospitalization in Japan

Yuda, Michio - 2016

elasticity becomes more inelastic. However, there is no significant difference in length of hospital stay between medical …

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Health Care Issues in the United States and Japan

Cutler, David M. (contributor); Wise, David A. (ed.); … - 2006

Recent data show wide disparity between Japan and the United States in the effectiveness of their health care systems. Japan spends close to the lowest percentage of its gross domestic product on health care among OECD countries, the United States spends the highest, yet life expectancies in...