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This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...
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Futurists, investors, and health-law programs all try to catch a glimpse of the future of healthcare. Lucky for you, you've got me. I'm from the future. I've travelled back in time from the year 2045. And I am here to tell you, the future of healthcare reform is awesome
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Universal health coverage (UHC) is an integral part of the United Nations' sustainable development goals. The private sector plays a prominent role in achieving UHC, being the primary source of essential medicines for many people. However, many private healthcare facilities in low- and...
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Healthcare systems differ greatly across the world, however, it appears that the extent of public insurance (publicly/government funded healthcare) is the only institutional characteristic that plays a significant role in accounting for the large disparities in total healthcare spending. Other...
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Scholars of public health typically focus on societal equity for explaining public health outcomes. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a spate of studies showing a tight connection between inequitable access to health, welfare services, and adverse outcomes from the pandemic. Others have...
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Germany’s healthcare system is praised as one of the best in the world. In this article, we review Germany’s health system by critically analysing its structure, funding, resource allocation, provider payments, efficiency, health outcomes, and access. Whilst health provision and access are...
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about their care and the scope of competition between hospitals. …
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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 …
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evidence, we build a spatial quality competition model with altruism heterogeneity. We find that more altruistic healthcare … offset costly quality competition. …Neue empirische Evidenz für Leistungsanbieter im Gesundheitswesen zeigt, dass es erhebliche Heterogenität im Grad des …
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funds and controls production of such items. This study briefly discusses the economic ideal of competition and its current … supply-side competition would or would not improve outcomes, identifies imperfect information as a key problem, and closes by … discussing competition among health plans, systems, and networks. This research combines data, theory, and reasonable conjecture …
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