residential areas to health supplier regions. This approach explicitly acknowledges the interdependence of the patient flows … between a set of alternative health supplier regions. This competing-destinations based approach may be implemented as a …

One of the core goals of a universal health care system is to eliminate discrimination on the basis of socioeconomic …. These patients also benefit from variation in supply endowments. These results challenge the universal health system's core …

The health care for elderly population remains an important concern in the two populated economies of India and China … the ageing impacts on the aggregate as well as health care expenditures in these two countries, separately for the rural … proportion of health care expenditure, only rural China reveals statistically significant and positive coefficients. …

efficiency of health centres in Finland between 1990 and 2003. To address potential non-random or endogenous treatment assignment … insignificant on the productive efficiency of health centres. … contrast to earlier studies, this paper approaches the economies of scale issue by analysing the break-ups of municipal health …

multivariate probit model to control for the simultaneous self-selection process of practices into the payment scheme and larger …

attempt to increase hospital efficiency in the German health sector. In this paper changes of hospital efficiency, quantified … as a Malmquist index decomposition in pure technical efficiency change, are analyzed for periods before and after the … reform. We implement a two-stage semi-parametric efficiency model that allows for spatial interdependence among hospitals …

Many health care systems aim to enhance hospital quality by encouraging competition. However, evidence on the …

This paper examines the cost efficiency in the nursing home industry, an issue of concern to Swiss policy makers …