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Entry and Exit of Physicians in a two-tiered public/private Health Care System

Gächter, Martin; Schwazer, Peter; Theurl, Engelbert - Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of … - 2011

and exit decisions of physicians in the private sector of the outpatient part of the Austrian health care system. We apply … - 2008. We are particularly interested in the question how public physicians (GPs/specialists) and their private counterparts … influence the entrance and exit of private physicians. We find a significantly negative effect of existing capacities, measured …

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Public health services and health care utilization in Viet Nam

Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The main objectives of this paper are to review policies on health services and to provide an assessment of public health facilities and the access of people to health care services in Vietnam. Medical facilities and staffs in public establishments have been increasing. Health insurance has been...

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Union Budget 2007-08: Continuing Neglect of Public Health Care

Kathuria, Vinish - eSocialSciences - 2007

Allocations to the budget for health appear to be impressive but a closer look shows that this is not so, especially taking into consideration the high inflation rate in the previous year. A substantive criticism is presented on allocation to HIV/AIDS, polio eradication, and leprosy control...

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Large Scale Contracting out of Basic Health Services for the Poor in Guatemala: The SIAS Program: Design, Processes and Results

Forgia, Jerry La - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005

This presentation gives an overiew of the SIAS Program from 1997-2001, including: 1) Rationale; 2) Objectives; 3) Design; 4) Performance; 5) Issues and Problems; 6) Political Economy of Change. An appraisal of the health situation Guatemala is also given. This presentation was presented at the...

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Using discrete event simulation to design a more efficient hospital pharmacy for outpatients

Reynolds, Matthew; Vasilakis, Christos; McLeod, Monsey; … - In: Health Care Management Science 14 (2011) 3, pp. 223-236

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Violence Interventions with Children

Gardner, Julie Meeks - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005

This presentation discusses the effects of violence in children as well as successful programs that worked to reduce child/youth violence in Jamaica. The presentation was prepared for the International Inter-American Seminar: "Seguridad y Convivencia Ciudadana: Examinando Experiencias y...

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Is Anybody Listening?: Ignoring Evidence in the Latin American Health Reform Debates

Savedoff, William D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, countries are in the midst of debates about their health systems. Frequently, the characteristics of reforms in one country are used to promote or criticize particular proposals in another. Despite the great importance and potential from learning from...

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Stigma, Discrimination, and HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean

Aggleton, Peter; Parker, Richard; Maluwa, Miriam - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

This paper focuses on a rather unexplored dimension to date of the HIV/AIDS epidemic: the resulting stigma and discrimination and its impact on the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS programs. It presents a conceptual framework that explains the interplay between stigma, discrimination and human rights....

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Performance Issues in the Public Healthcare Services

CICEA, Claudiu; BUSU, Cristian - In: Economia. Seria Management 14 (2011) 2, pp. 439-449

A well known truth to both the experts and the population states that health should be seen as an investment too in the most important factor of production, the human factor. In the following paper we analyzed the economic efficiency in the sanitary field using some specific indicators such as...

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Towards universalism? The obstructed process of healthcare reform in bolivia

Sirén, Sebastian - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2011

In this article a process-tracing approach is used to explore how different factors have contributed to the development of healthcare policy in Bolivia, in light of the current proposal to introduce a unified public healthcare system. The main findings are that although international relations...

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