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Heterogeneity in general practitioners' preferences for quality improvement programs: A choice experiment and policy simulation in France
Ammi, Mehdi; Peyron, Christine - In: Health Economics Review 6 (2016) 44, pp. 1-11
quality of physician practice. We investigate the heterogeneity of physicians' preferences as a potential explanation of these … on a discrete choice experiment to elicit heterogeneity in physicians' preferences for the financial and non … that physicians can be grouped in four homogeneous groups with specific preference patterns. Using policy simulation, we …
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Who cares? Evidence on informal and formal home care use in Estonia
Mozhaeva, Irina - In: Baltic Journal of Economics 19 (2019) 1, pp. 136-154
Despite increasing attention to long-term care (LTC) and related challenges in the Estonian social policy agenda, the distributional fairness of LTC services in the country has received very limited attention. Using SHARE data, we address informal and formal home care services and identify the...
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The impact of quality on hospital choice. Which information affects patients’ behavior for colorectal resection or knee replacement?
Kuklinski, David; Vogel, Justus; Geissler, Alexander - In: Health Care Management Science 24 (2021) 1, pp. 185-202
choice model, we estimate patients' marginal utilities, willingness to travel and change in hospital demand for quality …
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Demand heterogeneity in insurance markets: Implications for equity and efficiency
Geruso, Michael - In: Quantitative Economics 8 (2017) 3, pp. 929-975
data, I then show that this type of demand heterogeneity is empirically relevant in a consumer health plan setting. Younger … and older consumers and men and women reveal strikingly different demand for health insurance, conditional on their …
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Preferences for health insurance in Germany and the Netherlands: A tale of two countries
Leukert-Becker, Karolin; Zweifel, Peter - In: Health Economics Review 4 (2014) 22, pp. 1-11
Background: This contribution seeks to measure preferences for health insurance in Germany and the Netherlands, using two Discrete Choice Experiments (DCE). Since the Dutch DCE was carried out right after the 2006 health reform, which made citizens explicitly choose a health insurance contract,...
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The impacts of recent smoking control policies on individual smoking choice: The case of Japan
Yuda, Michio - In: Health Economics Review 3 (2013) 4, pp. 1-13
This article comprehensively examines the impact of recent smoking control policies in Japan, increases in cigarette taxes and the enforcement of the Health Promotion Law, on individual smoking choice by using multi-year and nationwide individual survey data to overcome the analytical problems...
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Consumer-Directed Health Care: Can Consumers Look After Themselves?
McFadden, Daniel; Winter, Joachim; Heiss, Florian - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 144 (2008) 3, pp. 285-307
In health care systems today, including those of Switzerland and the United States, participants do not necessarily see the big picture of lifetime health costs and quality of life, and in many systems consumers and providers lack the incentives to manage preventative and chronic care to...
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Analysis of Polish healthcare system fianancing in 2000-2009
Hady, Joanna; Leśniowska, Małgorzata - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 9 (2013) 1, pp. 1-11
Healthcare is a very important, and at the same time difficult element of each state's policy. For many countries, the issue of financing the healthcare system is a delicate matter, while at the same time one of the basic economic and social issues. Nevertheless, decisions concerning the sources...
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Private health insurance as a source of financing the healthcare system in Poland
Rodzinka, Jacek; Paszkowska, Małgorzata - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 9 (2013) 1, pp. 60-73
The medical services market in Poland is financed mainly with funds from national health insurance, yet year by year, an increasing importance of private resources in financing health services can be noticed. Apart from common (national) health insurance, medical care is primarily financed...
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Public financing of healthcare services
Bem, Agnieszka - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 9 (2013) 2, pp. 1-23
Healthcare in Poland is mainly financed by public sector entities, among them the National Health Fund (NFZ), state budget and local government budgets. The task of the National Health Fund, as the main payer in the system, is chiefly currently financing the services. The state budget plays a...
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