There is widespread concern about the quality of care in nursing homes. Based on administrative data of a large health insurance fund, we investigate whether nursing home prices affect relevant quality of care indicators at the resident level. Our results indicate a significantly negative price...

Wie funktioniert Gesundheitspolitik anderswo und warum? Seit März 2003 berichten Experten aus sechzehn Industrieländern zweimal jährlich zu aktuellen Entwicklungen in der Gesundheitspolitik. Schwerpunkte des vorliegenden zweiten Reports "Gesundheitspolitik in Industrieländern" (Zeitraum...

Access to healthcare providers remains a salient problem in the United States. One important policy solution would be to relax state scope-of-practice (SOP) laws that inhibit the ability of many healthcare providers, such as nurse practitioners, to deliver care. Some states have changed their...

The objective of the study is to identify factors that influence the decision whether or not to get the flu vaccine among nurses in Israel by using the Health Belief Model (HBM). Methods: A questionnaire distributed among 299 nurses in Israel in winter 2005 /2006 included: (a) socio-demographic...

Policymakers prioritizing increasing access to health care, while simultaneously keeping costs low and quality high, are considering expanding the scope of practice and prescriptive authority of nurse practitioners. While we know this increases access, some researchers argue that the expansion...