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Exploring the Effects of Population Change on the Costs of Physician Services
Denton, Frank T.; Gafni, Amiram; Spencer, Byron G. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2001
The effects of population aging on future health care costs are an important public policy concern in many countries … information about payments to physicians, by age and sex of patients. Using it, we derive age/cost profiles for 19 categories of … physicians. Adopting an index-theoretic framework, we then use the profiles to analyse the "pure" effects of population change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181121
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Population Change and the Requirements for Physicians: The Case of Ontario
Denton, Frank T.; Gafni, Amiram; Spencer, Byron G. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2000
among categories of physicians. These findings suggest that the emphasis on population aging in policy discussions of future …The effects of population change on requirements for physicians in Ontario are studied. Principal findings are the … the preceding two decades; (b) population aging alone will raise the overall rate of growth of requirements but that will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763297
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Population Change and the Requirements for Physicians: The Case of Ontario
Denton, Frank T.; Gafni, Amiram; Spencer, Byron G. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2000
among categories of physicians. These findings suggest that the emphasis on population aging in policy discussions of future …The effects of population change on requirements for physicians in Ontario are studied. Principal findings are the … the preceding two decades; (b) population aging alone will raise the overall rate of growth of requirements but that will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763407
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Medical care within an OLG economy with realistic demography
Frankovic, Ivan; Kuhn, Michael; Wrzaczek, Stefan - 2016
We study the role of health care within a continuous time economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous mortality. The economy consists of two sectors: final goods production and a health care sector, selling medical services to individuals. Individuals demand health care with a view...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437147
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Medical Brain Drain and Its Consequences for Poland - A Country Case Study
Murdoch, Anna - 2009
This paper looks at some negative effects of Brain Drain for Poland. We propose to look at specific numbers of human capital emigration from Poland, in particular those for the medical professions outflow. We juxtapose the relevant data on human capital migration from Poland with the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216407
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Short-Term Predictions of the Total Medical Costs of California Counties
Kleinman, Gary - 2013
The aim of this research is to develop a model to forecast short term health cost changes. The motivation for producing such a model is to provide local decision makers with a tool to predict short term health care costs in their localities. In order to achieve this objective, we collected data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072366
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Health insurance, endogenous medical progress, and health expenditure growth
Frankovic, Ivan; Kuhn, Michael - 2018
We study the impact of health insurance expansion in the US on health expenditure, longevity growth and welfare in an overlapping generations economy in which individuals purchase health care to lower mortality. We consider three sectors: final goods production; a health care sector, selling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011813315
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Health Expenditures, Longevity and Growth
Dormont, Brigitte; Oliveira Martins, Joaquim; Pelgrin, … - 2015
This paper offers an integrated view of the relationships between health spending, medical innovation, health status, growth and welfare. Health spending triggers technological progress, which is a potential source of better outcomes in terms of longevity and quality of life, a direct source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014047534
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The prospects for an imminent demographic dividend in Africa : the case for cautious optimism
Basu, Alaka Malwade; Basu, Kaushik - 2014
This paper looks at the prospects of a demographic dividend in Africa in the near future. While acknowledging that the fertility declines which change population age structures and thus dependency ratios have been slow to begin and often seem to have stalled once they have begun, we nevertheless...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250177
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Does physician dispensing increase drug expenditures?
Kaiser, Boris; Schmid, Christian - 2013
We analyze whether the possibility for physicians to dispense drugs increases health care expenditures due to the … dispensing is permitted, physicians produce significantly higher drug costs in the order of 30% per patient. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009772799