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Shortages of medicines in OECD countries
Chapman, Suzannah - 2022
Even in wealthy economies, access to medicines is increasingly affected by medicine shortages – an issue exacerbated with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this paper was to examine the extent and nature of medicine shortages in OECD countries (pre-COVID-19) and explore the...
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Social Health Insurance as a Complementary Financing Mechanism for Universal Health Coverage in India
Kalita, Anuska - 2015
additional funds, can play in financing health services in India. It formulates an SHI concept and its aims for India and … they offer for India and suggests a suitable design for India. It then estimates the volumes of tax revenues and payroll … contributions that may be obtainable by India through SHI. Towards the end it also outlines some of the important design elements …
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Trade in health products : reducing trade barriers for better health
Helble, Matthias; Shepherd, Benjamin - 2017
availability of health-related products such as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and medical equipment. The case for liberalizing trade …
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An Ounce of Prevention or a Pound of Cure? Short- and Long-Run Effects of Pharmaceutical Patents on U.S. Health Care Expenditures
Johnson, Hilary S.; Johnson, Daniel K. N. - 2014
driving the costs of pharmaceuticals, and develop a structured vector autoregressive (SVAR) model to measure the social rate …-run prices in pharmaceuticals themselves, but with lower long-run prices in the aggregate medical sector which includes … pharmaceuticals as a component part. Further, the TRIPS Agreement and Hatch-Waxman Act to enable generic competition have both been …
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Primary care availability affects antibiotic consumption : evidence using unfilled positions in Hungary
Bíró, Anikó; Elek, Petér S. - 2018
Using administrative data from Hungary, we analyse the effect of general practitioner (GP) care availability on the consumption of antibiotics. We exploit the geographical and time variation in unfilled GP positions as a source of exogenous variation in the availability of primary care....
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Financial Conflicts of Interest in Medicine
Engelberg, Joseph - 2014
We use the geographic distance between a doctor's office and drug company headquarters to instrument for the likelihood of pecuniary transfers, such as meals or speaking fees. Doctors tilt prescriptions in favor of the paying firm's drugs, shifting away from both branded and generic substitutes....
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A pharmaceutical innovation : is it worth the money? Whose money?
Sennhauser, Michèle; Zweifel, Peter - 2009
This study seeks to provide evidence for deciding whether or not a pharmaceutical innovation should be included in the benefit list of social health insurance. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted in Germany to measure preferences for modern insulin therapy. Of the 1,100 individuals...
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Plan selection in Medicare Part D : evidence from administrative data
Heiss, Florian; Leive, Adam; McFadden, Daniel; Winter, … - 2012
We study the Medicare Part D prescription drug insurance program as a bellwether for designs of private, non-mandatory health insurance markets that control adverse selection and assure adequate access and coverage. The focus of this paper is on the ability of consumers to evaluate and optimize...
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Mismeasurement in pay-for-performance : evidence from an intervention to reduce health care spending in China
Wu, Bingxiao - 2014
This paper examines how physicians in China respond to a pay-for-performance scheme that mismeasures performance. In 2005, China imposed a policy that penalizes hospitals with high drug sale percentage in the total revenue, with the intent to decrease drug expenditure. Using a unique...
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Competition and antibiotics prescription
Fogelberg, Sara; Karlsson, Jonas - 2012
The introduction of antibiotics as a medical treatment after World War II helped to dramatically increase life expectancy in the industrialized world. As a consequence of over-prescription the last decades ave however seen a sharp increase in prevalence of multi-resistant bacteria, disarming...
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