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Human resources for health and health outcomes : panel data analysis
Kureková, Lucie; Hejdukova, Pavlína; Komárková, Lenka - In: Prague economic papers : a bimonthly journal of … 32 (2023) 2, pp. 205-224
This study aims to evaluate the effects of selected key factors on health outcomes. Unfortunately, statistical reporting in this field is not harmonized, and in some countries it is completely absent. For this reason, valuable information for health determinant analysis may be lacking or...
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Life, Death, and Medicare Fraud : The Corruption of Hospice and What the Private Public Partnership Under the Federal False Claims Act is Doing About It
Barger, James - 2016
Once a humble, beloved, charity-based arm of the healthcare industry, hospice is now a multi-billion dollar industry, funded almost exclusively by Medicare, run by for-profit corporations answering to private equity investors and Wall Street, and more and more frequently plagued by fraud and...
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Electoral cycle bias in the media coverage of corruption news
Le Moglie, Marco; Turati, Gilberto - 2018
corruption scandals in the Italian Regional Health Systems by two important national newspapers having opposite ideology, La … about corruption scandals involving left-wing politicians in the days right before the elections, while it reduces the … number of those about right episodes of corruption and without any political connection. Instead, for La Repubblica we do not …
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Does quality influence choice of general practitioner? An analysis of matched doctor-patient panel data
Biørn, Erik; Godager, Geir - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009
The impact of quality on the demand facing health care providers has important implications for the industrial organization of health care markets. In this paper we study the consumers' choice of general practitioner (GP) assuming they are unable to observe the true quality of GP services. A...
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The Determinants of Provincial Public Health Expenditures in Turkey : Evidence from a Spatial Data Analysis
Yildirim, Julide; öcal, nadir; Alpaslan, Baris - 2023
This study investigates the determinants of provincial public health expenditures for Turkey, employing spatial econometrics models. To this end, the panel data at NUTS3 level for the period 2009-2019 have been employed. The exploratory spatial data analysis suggests that real GDP per capita,...
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Does quality influence choice of general practitioner? An analysis of matched doctor-patient panel data
Biorn, Erik; Godager, Geir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The impact of quality on the demand facing health care providers has important implications for the industrial organization of health care markets. In this paper we study the consumers' choice of general practitioner (GP) assuming they are unable to observe the true quality of GP services. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619524
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Measuring spatial effects in presence of institutional constraints: the case of Italian Local Health Authority expenditure
Atella, Vincenzo; Belotti, Federico; Depalo, Domenico; … - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2013
Over the last decades spatial econometrics models have represented a common tool for measuring spillover effects across different geographical entities (counties, provinces, regions or nations). Unfortunately, no one has considered that when these entities share common borders but obey to...
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: Measuring spatial effects in presence of institutional constraints: the case of Italian Local Health Authority expenditure
Atella, Vincenzo; Belotti, Federico; Depalo, Domenico; … - Banca d'Italia - 2014
Spatial econometric models are now an established tool for measuring spillover effects between geographical entities. Unfortunately, however, when entities share common borders but are subject to different institutional frameworks, unless this is taken into account the conclusions may be...
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Measuring spatial effects in the presence of institutional constraints: The case of Italian Local Health Authority expenditure
Atella, Vincenzo; Belotti, Federico; Depalo, Domenico; … - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 49 (2014) C, pp. 232-241
Over the last decades spatial econometric models have represented a common tool for measuring spillover effects across different geographical entities (counties, provinces, regions or nations). The aim of this paper is to investigate the issue of measuring spatial spillovers in the presence of...
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Does corruption affect suicide? Empirical evidence from OECD countries
Yamamura, Eiji; Andrés, Antonio R.; Katsaiti, Marina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The question to what extent corruption influences suicide remains still unanswered. This paper examines the effect of … corruption on suicide using a panel data approach for 24 OECD countries over the period 1995-2004. Our results show that suicide … rates are lower in countries with lower levels of corruption. We also find evidence that this effect is approximately three …
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