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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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Efforts to improve the efficiency of the hospital sector in the National Health Service (NHS) have concentrated on measuring the unit costs of service provision. Hospitals identified as having high unit costs are considered poor performers. Several indices have been constructed to measure unit...
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This study examines the long-run and short-run behaviour of public hospital average costs in two Australian States: Victoria and Queensland. Using adjusted weighted inlier-equivalent separations as a measure of hospital output, and floor area as a measure of capacity, the study finds a hump or...
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We review statistical methods for estimating and interpreting league tables used to infer hospital quality with a primary focus on methods for partitioning variation into two types: (a) that associated with within-hospital variation for a homogeneous group of patients and (b) that produced by...
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as a whole was found to have improved between 1991 and 1996. In this comparison, the empirical results showed that the …
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This study aims to investigate the levels of emotional intelligence for managers in public and private hospitals in Jordan for the purpose of identifying the relative practice of emotional intelligence dimensions by managers in each sector. The research will also look into the differences (gaps)...
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