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Getting Better Value for Money from Sweden's Healthcare System

Rae, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005

care. Mechanisms for improving the hospital sector are also examined including fee-for-service (DRG) payment mechanisms and …

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Consolidating Germany's Finances: Issues in Public Sector Spending Reform

Wurzel, Eckhard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2003

While the German federal fiscal system has been successful in promoting a high standard of living even in regions whose economic capacity is low, tensions have emerged. <I>Firstly</I>, it has been difficult to ensure a sustainable fiscal policy, and the size of the overall deficit makes it difficult...</i>

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Did ‘Targets and Terror’ Reduce Waiting Times in England for Hospital Care?

Propper, Carol; Sutton, Matt; Whitnall, Carolyn; … - In: Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy 8 (2008) 2, pp. 1863-1863

publication of waiting times data at the hospital level and strong sanctions for poor performing hospital managers. This regime … has been dubbed ‘targets and terror’. We estimate the effect of the English target regime for waiting times for hospital …

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The Impact of the Medicare Drug Benefit on Health Care Spending by Older Households

Baker, Dean; Zipperer, Ben - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2008

This report uses data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey from 2004 to 2006 as well as data from the Congressional Budget Office to analyze the savings in prescription drug spending for seniors as a result of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and...

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An institutional sociology perspective of the implementation of activity based costing by Spanish health care institutions

Eriksen, Scott D.; Urrutia, Ignacio - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2005

study of the Alcorcón foundation hospital. Population ecology is offered as an explanation for the emergence of new entities …

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Towards common European health policies: what are the implications for the Nordic countries?

Blomqvist, Paula; Larsson, Jakob - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2009

Health care is an area that remains formally outside the competence of the EU. Despite this, the union’s influence on national health care policies has increased substantially over the past decade. In a series of rulings, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) established a de facto system of...

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Designing Competition in Health Care Markets

Dalen, Dag Morten; Moen, Espen R; Riis, Christian - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009

designed. In the case of elective treatment, health authorities thus organize a competition between hospitals. The hospital … patients within a predetermined period. However, this is not a simple mechanism that identi…es the hospital with the lowest … treatment in the spot market in the case of default, and let the hospital pay a default fee that is lower than the spot price …

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Scale, efficiency and organization in Norwegian psychiatric outpatient clinics for children

Hallsteinli, Vidar; Kittelsen, Sverre AC; Magnussen, Jon - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009

In this paper, the authors examine the scale, efficiency and organization of Norwegian psychiatric outpatient clinics for children. Their question is whether there is room for improved performance in these clinics, and how much? Assuming that about 5 per cent of the Norwegian population under 18...

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The British Welfare State in Times of Conservative Governments in 1951-1964

Tumis, Stanislav - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2007 (2007) 7, pp. 460-471

The study entitled "The British Welfare State in Times of Conservative Governments in 1951-1964" deals with special features of policy of so called welfare state in times of thirteen-year rule of Conservative party. Conservative governments have continued in Labour welfare program pursuing after...

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Health Care Regulation: Impact on the Supply of Outpatient Services in the Czech Republic

Dlouhý, Martin - In: Prague Economic Papers 2005 (2005) 3, pp. 267-276

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of regulatory policy on the supply of outpatient services and on their geographical distribution in the Czech Republic. The analysis of regulatory policy is based on the review of literature. Trends and regional distribution were analysed...

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