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Healthcare systems are nowadays facing several challenges starting from an ageing population to a growing demand for more advanced and better healthcare outcomes. This leads to an increase of healthcare costs as well as a need for change in healthcare systems in terms of better and more...
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The complexity of indicator’s system derives from the very complexity of the health concept as defined by the World Health Organization that "Health is that state of good : physical, mental, social and consists not only in the absence of disease or infirmity". The indicators should cover both...
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This paper aims at analyzing characteristics of private health insurance (PHI) in low- and middle income countries and evaluating its significance for national health systems. In many countries the importance of PHI to finance health care is on a rise. Various factors contribute to this...
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The economic transition was harmful all over, but even more harmful for Romania's social landscape. The total population decreased by both birth rate and emigration and the work force follows this trend, the remaining people get older and demographic perspectives are even worse for the following...
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It is assumed that the origin of the coach comes from the Czech word kocsis or Hungarian kocyi, who was later adopted by the French and used as coche. The paper is dealing with some interesting aspects regarding the coaching and its role in the healthcare units. The authors made an interesting...
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To investigate stakeholder involvement by Health Technology Assessment Organisations (HTAOs) in France, Spain, England and Wales, Germany, Sweden, and The Netherlands and to examine whether this involvement depends on (i) the administrative tradition and the relevant conception of the...
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Vergütungsreform von Krankenhausleistungen zu beheben. Das Ziel der Reform kann auf dem vorgeschlagenen Weg nicht erreicht werden. … remuneration of hospital services. The articles shows that the goals of the reform cannot be achieved in the proposed way. …
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respond to the sick pay reform. We show that union members may have stronger incentives to be absent and to react to the cut …
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Government announced that through this reform it had successfully reduced the number of unemployed by 25% representing around 45 …,000 individuals. However, an evaluation of the impact of this policy reform on labour market outcomes for the severely disabled …
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literature by estimating both switch-on and switch-off effects, because the reform was repealed two years later. We find a two … terms) at higher quantiles, meaning that the reform predominantly reduced long durations of absence. In terms of health, the … reform reduced the average number of days spent in hospital by almost half a day, but we cannot find robust evidence for …
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