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How to Improve Israel's Health-care System
Hemmings, Philip - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
Israelis enjoy higher life expectancy and have a much younger demographic profile than most OECD countries. However, the demand for health care is expanding rapidly due to population growth and ageing. Also, the country’s wide socio-economic divides are reflected in differences in health...
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Health Care Reform and Long-Term Care in the Netherlands
Schut, Erik; Sorbe, Stéphane; Høj, Jens - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
The Netherlands, as other OECD countries, faces the challenge of providing high quality health and long-term care services to an ageing population in a cost-efficient manner. In the health care sector, reforms have aimed at introducing more competition. Despite major changes and some positive...
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Does Uninsurance Affect the Health Outcomes of the Insured? Evidence from Heart Attack Patients in California
Daysal, N. Meltem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
hospitals change their provision of care to insured heart attack patients in response to reduced revenues, the evidence I have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279323
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The Effect of a Hospital Nurse Staffing Mandate on Patient Health Outcomes: Evidence from California’s Minimum Staffing Regulation
Cook, Andrew; Gaynor, Martin; Melvin Stephens, Jr.; … - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2012
hospital setting. When the law was passed, some hospitals already met the requirements, while others did not. Thus changes in … AB394 had the intended effect of decreasing patient/nurse ratios in hospitals that previously did not meet mandated … patient safety in affected hospitals. …
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Competition in Health Care Markets
Gaynor, Martin; Town, Robert J - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2012
This chapter reviews the literature devoted to studying markets for health care services and health insurance. There has been tremendous growth and progress in this field. A tremendous amount of new research has been done since the publication of the first volume of this Handbook. In addition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261668
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An Analysis of Hospital Efficiency and Productivity Growth Using the Luenberger Productivity Indicator
Barros, Carlos Pestana; Menezes, António Gomes de; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 … change. The results show that, on average, Portuguese hospitals did not experience productivity growth during the period … analyzed. In addition, the incidence of positive productivity growth across Portuguese hospitals was remarkably low. …
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Measuring and comparing the (in)efficiency of German and Swiss hospitals
Steinmann, Lukas; Dittrich, Gunnar; Karmann, Alexander; … - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2003
A nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is performed on hospitals in the federal state of Saxony (Germany) and … observations, hospitals of Saxony have higher efficiency scores than their Swiss counterparts. …
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Does uninsurance affect the health outcomes of the insured? Evidence from heart attack patients in California
Daysal, N. Meltem - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 4, pp. 545-563
limitations constrain my capacity to check how hospitals change their provision of care to insured heart attack patients in …
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Are doctors better health ministers?
Pilny, Adam; Rösel, Felix - 2020
hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012217432
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Chapter Nine. Competition in Health Care Markets
Gaynor, Martin; Town, Robert J. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 2, (pp. 499-637). 2011
This chapter reviews the literature devoted to studying markets for health care services and health insurance. There has been tremendous growth and progress in this field. A tremendous amount of new research has been done since the publication of the first volume of this Handbook. In addition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025579