increased competition between healthcare providers on prescription of antibiotics. We make use of a competition- inducing reform … different subcategories of antibiotics. The results indicate that increased competition had a positive and significant effect on …The introduction of antibiotics as a medical treatment after World War II helped to dramatically increase life …

increased competition between healthcare providers on prescription of antibiotics. We make use of a competition- inducing reform … different subcategories of antibiotics. The results indicate that increased competition had a positive and significant effect on …The introduction of antibiotics as a medical treatment after World War II helped to dramatically increase life …

consumption of antibiotics. We exploit the geographical and time variation in unfilled GP positions as a source of exogenous … position of a village becomes unfilled, the days of therapy (DOT) as well as public expenditures on antibiotics decrease by 3 … less available, and where antibiotics were previously overprescribed. The quality of prescribing behaviour measured by the …

determinants of access to healthcare in Africa aestimates the short-run and long run effects of these determinants. Panel data from … in the sample. Access to healthcare was a necessiwith the long-run income elasticity for access to healthcare being 0 … imply that policy makers should focus on income to increase access healthcare while taking cognisance of country …

prescribing decisions impact the competition among molecules of a therapeutic class, once generic versions of one of these …

potential effect of real and yardstick competition that could be introduced in this long term care sector. Using a micro …

about their care and the scope of competition between hospitals. …

We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … of healthcare, and crafting appropriate policy responses. We note some future extensions of our work. …

about their care and the scope of competition between hospitals. …

evidence, we build a spatial quality competition model with altruism heterogeneity. We find that more altruistic healthcare …New empirical evidence shows substantial heterogeneity in the altruism of healthcare providers. Spurred by this … altruistic healthcare providers are, the more likely it is that the social planner prefers greater horizontal differentiation to …