Objective: To analyze the quality of private health services in Bac Giang City, Vietnam. Method: All private health care providers were assessed for quality of care through site visits and interviews. Structure including equipment and staffing was assessed through interview with the facility...

[This is an extended version of of an article later published as "When Experts Educate, What Do Their Metaphors Say? Complex Metaphor Structure in the Professional Conflict Resolution Literature" in Ibérica 17 [2009]: 175-196, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1330827] Much of what mediators do will be...

We generalize extant health capital models to provide an economic explanation for why individuals invest in health when survival and/or longevity prospects are poor. We allow relative health to impact utility and model depreciation as an amount rather than a rate. As a result, the decline in...

Prior studies suggest that, with elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality inputs, as oligopolistic...

Aims The study evaluates quality of care for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) provided in different public-private partnerships (PPP) and compares their performance with that of public sector providers. Methods Quality of care analysis comparing three different models of directly observed...