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Waiting time distribution in public health care : empirics and theory

Dimakou, Sofia; Dimakou, Ourania; Basso, Henrique S. - In: Health economics review 5 (2015) 25, pp. 1-27

hospitals characteristics that determine waiting times? By developing a model of healthcare provision and analysing empirically … that describes the optimal waiting time distribution for capacity constraint hospitals. Secondly, employing duration … analysis, we obtain empirical representations of that distribution across hospitals in the UK from 1997-2005. We observe …

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Essential notion of the health economic evaluation : definition

Botchkarev, Alexei - In: Atlantic review of economics : AROE 2 (2016)

Background: Economic evaluation (EE) is a dynamically advancing knowledge area of health economics. It has been conceived to provide evidence for allocating scarce resources to gain the best value for money. The problem of efficiency of investments becomes even more crucial with advances in...

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Chapter Seven. Theoretical Issues Relevant to the Economic Evaluation of Health Technologies

Meltzer, David O.; Smith, Peter C. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 2, (pp. 433-469). 2011

Medical cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is perhaps the most widely applied tool to guide policy decisions concerning the use of health care resources. This chapter first reviews the rationale for and common practice of medical cost-effectiveness analysis. It seeks to place CEA within a...

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Chapter 35 Equity in health

Williams, Alan; Cookson, Richard - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1863-1910). 2000

Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the distribution of health care resources. We take as a working definition of health for our purposes the number of quality adjusted life years that a person may expect to enjoy over his or her lifetime....

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Monopolistic competition and costs in the health care sector

Kumpmann, Ingmar - 2009

Competition among health insurers is widely considered to be a means of enhancing efficiency and containing costs in the health care system. In this paper, it is argued that this could be unsuccessful since health care providers hold a strong position on the market for health care services....

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Patient mobility, health care quality and welfare

Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2014

Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...

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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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Can Risk Adjustment Prevent Risk Selection in a Competitive Long-Term Care Insurance Market?

Bakx, Pieter - 2013

When public long-term care (LTC) insurance is provided by insurers, they typically lack incentives for purchasing cost-effective LTC. Providing insurers with appropriate incentives for efficiency without jeopardizing access for high-risk individuals requires, among other things, an adequate...

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Health, Health Care, and Incompletely Theorized Agreements : A Normative Theory of Health Policy Decision Making

Prah Ruger, Jennifer - 2010

The years 2003-2004 marked the tenth anniversary of the rapid rise and demise of the Clinton administration's health reform efforts. Health reform may again be a political issue in the 2008 congressional and presidential elections. However, analysts still disagree over why large-scale health...

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Managing Adverse Selection : Underinsurance vs. Underenrollment

Saltzman, Evan - 2020

Adverse selection in insurance markets may lead some consumers to underinsure or too few consumers to purchase insurance relative to the socially optimal level. I study whether government intervention can mitigate both underinsurance and underenrollment due to adverse selection. I establish...

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