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The impact of the AIDS pandemic on health services in Africa: Evidence from Demographic Health Surveys

Case, Anne; Paxson, Christina - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2009

We document the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS related health services in fourteen sub-Saharan African countries. Using multiple waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for each country, we examine antenatal care, birth deliveries, and rates of immunization for children born between...

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Productivity growth in Norwegian psychiatric outpatient clinics A panel data analysis of the period 1996-2001

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

Norwegian government policy is to increase the supply of psychiatric services to children and young persons, both by increasing the number of personnel and by increasing productivity in the psychiatric outpatient clinics (BUP). Increased accessibility to services is observed for the last years,...

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On the characteristics of a mixed system of provision of a private good. An application to health care

GRASSI, Simona - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2006

We characterise the conditions for the existence of a mixed system of finance and provision of health-care by a social … planner and a private market coexists. Private insurance/provision and public health-care provision cannot be consumed … are, the more health-care services they are willing to buy. Everybody contributes through a general linear income taxation …

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Older Aboriginal Peoples in Canada – Demographics, Health Status and Access to Health Care

Rosenberg, Mark W.; Wilson, Kathi; Abonyi, Sylvia; … - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009

This paper takes advantage of 2006 Census data, the Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) and the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) to highlight some basic demographic trends among Older Aboriginal Peoples, their health status and their use of health services in the first part of this paper. In...

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The impact of liability for malpractice on the optimal reimbursement schemes for health services

Ossig, Sonja; Feess, Eberhard - Econometric Society - 2004

We analyze the impact of liability risks for malpractice on the optimal reimbursement schemes for hospitals. In our model, the hospital decides upon two unobservable efforts, a cost reduction effort and a quality improvement effort. We assume that the total effort is positive even without...

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Extending Choice In English Health Care: The implications of the economic evidence

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Wilson, Deborah - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Extending choice in health care is currently popular amongst English, and other, politicians. Those promoting choice make an appeal to a simple economic argument. Competitive pressure helps make private firms more efficient and consumer choice acts as a major driver for efficiency. Giving...

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Time to death and health expenditure of the Czech health care system

Pavloková, Kateřina - Institut ekonomických studií, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - 2009

Growing concern about future sustainability of public budgets in the context of population ageing has given rise to a large debate on the role of age in the context of health care expenditure. Growing evidence on the so called death related costs hypothesis arguing that the positive relationship...

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Market structure and technology: evidence from the Italian National Health Service

Robone, Silvana; Zanardi, Alberto - In: International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 6 (2006) 3, pp. 215-236

Sutton (1991, Sunk costs and market structure. Cambridge: MIT Press; 1998, Technology and market structure. Cambridge: MIT Press) theorised that industries evolve into distinct market configurations in terms of concentration, depending upon product homogeneity and whether R&D or advertising are...

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Nurse-to-patient ratios in hospital staffing: A queueing perspective

Véricourt, Francis de; Jennings, Otis B. - European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) - 2008

The immediate motivation of this paper is California Bill AB 394, legislation which mandates fixed nurse-to-patient staffing ratios as a means to address the current crisis in the quality of health care delivery. Modeling medical units as closed queueing systems, we seek to determine whether or...

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Population, Heath and Women

Abad, Henedina Razon - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 1994

There are a number of issues regarding women’s health, women’s reproductive behavior, fertility impact of reproductive health programs and the effect of gender roles and expectations in these factors. This paper attempts to put together recently available Philippine information that could...

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