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Health Insurance Competition in Germany - the Role of Advertising
Becker, Bettina; Uebelmesser, Silke - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science … 130 (2010) 2, pp. 169-194
In the 1990s, competition among health insurance funds (‘sickness funds’) was introduced in Germany. As one means of competition, free choice of initial health funds and subsequent switching between them was made available to all insured. Since then, the number of funds has decreased...
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Competition in the pharmaceutical industry: How do quality differences shape advertising strategies?
de Frutos, Maria-Angeles; Ornaghi, Carmine; Siotis, Georges - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 1, pp. 268-285
We present a Hotelling model of price and advertising competition between prescription drugs that differ in quality/side effects. Promotional effort results in the endogenous formation of two consumer groups: brand loyal and non-brand loyal ones. We show that advertising intensities are...
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Direct-to-consumer advertising and consumer welfare
Jayawardhana, Jayani - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 31 (2013) 2, pp. 164-180
The welfare implications of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) have garnered considerable attention and are … changes in demand for cholesterol-reducing drugs due to increased expenditure in DTCA. The results of the policy analysis … indicate increased levels of consumer welfare due to presence of DTCA in comparison to the absence of DTCA. The results also …
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CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT DENTAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AND ITS SPECIFIC MARKETING IN ROMANIA
Elena, ENACHE; Manuela-Rozalia, GABOR; Cristian, MOROZAN - In: Management Strategies Journal 22 (2013) Special, pp. 420-426
Worldwide, the "actors" of the tourism market identified new needs, this aspect leading to the appearance of various forms of tourism such as: adventure tourism, city-breaks, cultural tourism, religious tourism etc. At the same time current economic development, marked by the recession of recent...
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Product Warnings, Debiasing, and Free Speech: The Case of Tobacco Regulation
Jolls, Christine - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 169 (2013) 1, pp. 53-78
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 requires the display of graphic health warnings on cigarette advertising and packaging in the United States. Debates over the permissibility of these new mandated health warnings under the unusually broad Free Speech Clause of the...
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The Effect of Health Insurance Coverage on the Use of Medical Services
Anderson, Michael; Dobkin, Carlos; Gross, Tal - In: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 4 (2012) 1, pp. 1-27
Substantial uncertainty exists regarding the causal effect of health insurance on the utilization of care. We exploit a sharp change in insurance coverage rates that results from young adults "aging out" of their parents' insurance plans to estimate the effect of insurance coverage on the...
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A survey of econometric models to analyze the demand and utilisation of health care
Barranquero, Antonio Clavero; Alvarez, Mª. Luz González - In: Hacienda Pública Española (2005) 2, pp. 129-162
The aim of this article is to revise the literature about the applied econometric models to the analysis of the demand and utilisation of health care. Due to the difficulty to measure directly the demand of these services, the empirical investigations resort to data of the use of medical...
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RELATIONSHIP AND CAUSALITY BETWEEN ECONOMIC GROWTH RATE AND CERTAIN DISEASES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
Lucian, UNITA; Oreste, STRACIUC; Traian, MAGHIAR T.; … - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 478-484
The objective of this paper is to further research the already established relationship between economic growth and health by using the results of some previous works and applying them on the recent data, in order to find out if the economic growth rate i
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Effects of HIV Medication Complexity and Depression on Adherence to HIV Medication
Kumar, Virender; Encinosa, William - In: The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research 3 (2010) 1, pp. 59-69
Background: While much is known about the association between drug regimen complexity and drug adherence, little is known about how this association is affected by patient depression. Objective: To examine whether the relationship between medication adherence and highly active antiretroviral...
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Is it Possible to Measure What Truly Matters? The Paradox of Clinical Audit in Developing Continence Service Standards for Older People
Brown, Patrick; Billings, Jenny; Wagg, Adrian; Potter, … - In: The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research 3 (2010) 1, pp. 11-23
Background: Standards, benchmarking, and audits are integral to quality monitoring in health and social service provision. Recent policy in the UK National Health Service dictating the need for increased consumer involvement necessitates that service users have significant input into the...
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