We use data on a large wave of directed hospital mergers and closures in Ontario to investigate the impact of hospital … reorganization on patient welfare. We estimate a model of patient hospital choice on data collected before the reorganization …, finding that both distance and hospital quality are determinants of choice. The model is then used to determine the short …

's Democratic Republic (n = 12), Liberia (n = 12) and Rwanda (n = 25). Hospital sites were selected by pragmatic sampling. Data were … geocoded and then analysed using an online data visualization platform. Each hospital's catchment population was defined as the … people who could reach the hospital via a vehicle trip of no more than two hours. A hospital was only considered to show …