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The Bolivian universal health system and effective access to healthcare : a diagnosis

Agafitei, Gabriela Alondra - 2022

In 2019, the Bolivian government began implementation of the Universal Health Insurance (SUS) scheme, with critics claiming the unpreparedness of the healthcare system to provide universal and free services. To date, there is no research that assesses the effects of the reform and to what extent...

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Addressing private practice in public hospitals

Guo, Xidong; Parlane, Sarah - 2020

This paper proposes a theoretical analysis of the private provision of care within public hospitals and assesses its impact on the quality and cost of healthcare. We also capture this policy's impact on the number of outpatients that are seen and the number that are cured. We show that the...

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Healthcare Openness and Access Project : Mapping the Frontier for the Next Generation of American Healthcare, June 2018 Update

Brian, M.D., Darcy N. - 2020

The Healthcare Openness and Access Project (HOAP) is a collection of state-by- state comparative data on the flexibility and discretion US patients and providers have in managing healthcare. HOAP combines these data to produce 37 indicators of openness and accessibility. In turn, these...

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Medical Tourism and Domestic Population Health

Tattara, Giuseppe - 2010

. Over 50 countries have identified medical tourism as a national industry. This article deals with the situation of India … encourage a building trade in medical tourism, selling foreigners the idea of travelling to India for lowcost but world …-class medical treatment and India is becoming a "global health destination". This policy however does not develops into better …

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Custom-Made Healthcare – An Experimental Investigation

Keser, Claudia - 2013

In this paper, we investigate in a controlled laboratory experiment physician behavior in the case of payment heterogeneity. In the experiment, each physician provides medical care to patients whose treatments are paid for either under fee-for-service (FFS) or capitation (CAP). We observe that...

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Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population : Nova Scotia's Healthcare Glacier

Busby, Colin - 2013

“Health, as we all know, is by far the biggest part of the budget. And for years it has also been the fastest growing…. This government has reduced healthcare administration costs to below the national average, and has cut the rate of growth of health spending. That is no small feat….”...

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What Does Social Justice Require for the Public's Health? Public Health Ethics and Policy Imperatives

Gostin, Lawrence O. - 2015

Justice is so central to the mission of public health that it has been described as the field's core value. Our account of justice stresses the fair disbursement of common advantages and sharing of common burdens. It captures the twin moral impulses that animate public health: to advance human...

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Will Longer Antimicrobial Patents Improve Global Public Health?

Outterson, Kevin - 2014

The problem of antimicrobial resistance has led some infectious disease experts and their professional societies to propose the use of transferable intellectual property rights (wildcard patents) and patent term extensions as methods to encourage antimicrobial Ramp;D. We evaluate recent...

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Earnings Management in Public Healthcare Organisations : The Case of the English NHS Hospitals

Anagnostopoulou, Seraina C. - 2020

We explore whether NHS hospitals managed their earnings upward before applying for Foundation Trust (FT) status, a scheme that allowed them greater financial freedom and management autonomy, in order to present an overly positive picture and increase their chances for a successful application....

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EU funds as a catalyst of change for the Slovak healthcare system?

Fidrmuc, Jan; Gardoňová, Kristína; Hulényi, Martin; … - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 9 (2022) 1, pp. 29-49

In the programming period 2007-2013, the European Structural and Investment Fund (ESIF) invested €237 million in Slovak hospitals. We investigate whether this injection of additional funds has improved the quality of healthcare in the targeted hospitals. As a measure of quality, we use the...

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