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Comparison of public, non-profit and private hospitals
Held, Bärbel - 2014
The health care system in Germany is undergoing a phase of transformation. The resulting challenges and fields of action for the hospitals were described as one outcome of a scenario analysis conducted by the author. These include, for example, setting up new organisation structures,...
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International comparison of South African private hospital price levels
Lorenzoni, Luca; Roubal, Tomas - 2016
The health system in South Africa is unique in many ways. South Africa spends 41.8% of total health expenditures on private voluntary health insurance – more than any OECD country – but only 17% of the population – mostly high income citizens - can afford to purchase private insurance....
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COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake
Karajvanov, Alexander K.; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - 2021
vaccination rates and 790,000 or more first doses for Canada as a whole as of October 31, 2021 (5 to 13 weeks after the provincial …
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Pharmaceutical innovation, longevity, and medical expenditure in Greece, 1995 - 2010
Lichtenberg, Frank - 2015
death), hospital utilization, and medical expenditure in Greece during the period 1995 - 2010. The estimates indicate that … increases in the number of hospital days. Real per capita pharmaceutical expenditure increased rapidly during this period, but … 62% of the increase in pharmaceutical expenditure was offset by a reduction in hospital expenditure attributable to …
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Comparing hospital and health prices and volumes internationally : results of a EUROSTAT/OECD project
Koechlin, Francette; Konijn, Paul; Lorenzoni, Luca; … - 2014
. The main novel feature is the collection of comparable and output-based prices for hospital services that can then be … of hospital services, instead of prices of inputs such as wages of medical personnel. The new methodology moves away from … the traditional input perspective, thereby relaxing the assumption that hospital productivity is the same across countries... …
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On misusing national accounts data for governance purposes
Hartwig, Jochen (contributor) - 2005
According to KENDRICK (1996, p. 1), National Accounts have become "an indispensable tool for macroeconomic analysis, projections, and policy formulation". The paper elaborates on this statement, addressing policy domains that rely heavily on National Accounts data. Yet - useful as they are -...
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Early-stage entrepreneurial activity : an explanatory model for cross-country comparisons
Chepurenko, A.; Gabelko, M.; Obraztsova, O. - 2011
The paper argues that when developing an explanatory model of the early-stage entrepreneurial activity level (measured by total index of early entrepreneurial activity - TEA) one should consider the "path dependency" of the "institutional matrix" of different societies. Otherwise one could...
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Accounting for unrepresentative products and urban-rural price differences in international comparisons of real income : an application to the Asia-Pacific region
Hill, Robert J.; Syed, Iqbal A. - 2012
The International Comparisons Program (ICP) run by the World Bank compares the purchasing power of currencies and real income across countries. Using a unique data set consisting of over 600,000 ICP price quotes drawn from nine countries in the Asia-Pacific region, we consider a number of ways...
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Implementing US GDP in chained prices for cross-country GDP growth and sectoral comparisons : applications to selected ASEAN countries
Dumagan, Jesus Castaños (contributor) - 2008
GDP in constant prices of ASEAN countries suffers from substitution bias by ignoring relative price changes and makes GDP growth and shares dependent on the base year. These analytical deficiencies led the US since the mid-1990s to convert GDP from constant to chained prices. Thus, cross-country...
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Who cares when you close down? : the effects of primary care practice closures on patients
Bischof, Tamara; Kaiser, Boris - 2019
care providers (-12%) towards specialist care (+10%), and hospital outpatient facilities (+5%). The magnitude of these …
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