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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

Quality competition among hospitals, induced by patients freely choosing their hospital in a price regulated market …, can only be realized if quality differences between hospitals are transparent, understandable, and thus influence patients …' hospital choice. We use data from ~145,000 German patients and ~ 900 hospitals for colorectal resections and knee replacements …

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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

on a discrete choice experiment to elicit heterogeneity in physicians' preferences for the financial and non … quality of physician practice. We investigate the heterogeneity of physicians' preferences as a potential explanation of these … that physicians can be grouped in four homogeneous groups with specific preference patterns. Using policy simulation, we …

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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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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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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

experiment the recent introduction in the United States of a highly subsidized market for prescription drug insurance, and draws … lessons from this experiment on the practicality of "Consumer Directed Health Care" as an approach to achieving efficient …

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Impact of policy regulations on the functioning of hospitals in Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative analysis

Masłowski, Dariusz; Kulińska, Ewa; Salwin, Mariusz; … - In: International Journal of Management and Economics 58 (2022) 2, pp. 192-217

During the state of epidemic in Poland in 2020, all facilities providing medical services were subject to constant reorganization. Legal changes, which were introduced at a very rapid pace, did not allow the standardization of the work of the health service. Therefore, the assessment of the...

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Impact of the introduction of the AMNOG law on launch delays of new drugs in Germany: a comment

Gandjour, Afschin - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 24 (2023) 7, pp. 1243-1244

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The Cost of Restricting Abortion Access

Slusky, David - In: Intereconomics 57 (2022) 3, pp. 199-200

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On the welfare analysis of external reference pricing and reimbursement policy

Lin, Yan-shu; Shih, Pei-Cyuan - In: Estudios de Economía 50 (2023) 1, pp. 133-158

The co-existence of external referencing pricing (ERP) and reimbursement policy is common in many countries. Thus, this research examines whether or not the imposition of ERP is socially desirable in the presence of reimbursement policy. For direct sales channel, we find that the home social...

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