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The effect of extension of benefit coverage for cancer patients on health care utilization across different income groups in South Korea

Kim, Sujin; Kwon, Soonman - In: International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 14 (2014) 2, pp. 161-177

Insurance (NHI) benefit coverage for cancer patients in 2005. This paper examined whether the policy improved the income … of NHI benefits coverage led to an increase in the utilization of outpatient services across all income groups, but with … the extension of NHI benefits coverage improved the income-related equality in health care utilization. Copyright Springer …

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Who Takes Up Free Flu Shots? Examining the Effects of an Expansion in Coverage

Carman, Katherine; Mosca, Ilaria - In: De Economist 162 (2014) 1, pp. 1-17

The risk of costly complications and the externalities of contagious diseases lead many countries provide free flu shots to certain populations. In 2008, the Netherlands expanded their flu shot program to cover all individuals over the age of 60, instead of 65. We investigate the effects of the...

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A bounding-based solution approach for the continuous arc covering problem

Wei, Ran; Murray, Alan; Batta, Rajan - In: Journal of Geographical Systems 16 (2014) 2, pp. 161-182

Road segments, telecommunication wiring, water and sewer pipelines, canals and the like are important features of the urban environment. They are often conceived of and represented as network-based arcs. As a result of the usefulness and significance of arc-based features, there is a need to...

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Needs, expectations and public knowledge concerning services outside the medical basket: A lesson from Israel

Sperling, Daniel - In: Health Policy 117 (2014) 2, pp. 247-256

Quality of and access to medical care are strongly related to the medical basket, the set of services covered under the national health insurance system. Various health systems offer institutional solutions to cover services that are not included in the basket in rare cases. In Israel, patients...

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Choosing your health insurance package: A method for measuring the public's preferences for changes in the national health insurance plan

Victoor, Aafke; Hansen, Johan; den Akker-van Marle, M. … - In: Health Policy 117 (2014) 2, pp. 257-265

With rising healthcare expenditure and limited budgets available, countries are having to make choices about the content of health insurance plans. The views of the general population can help determine such priorities. In this article, we investigate whether preferences of the general...

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The new regulation to investigate potentially beneficial diagnostic and therapeutic methods in Germany: Up to international standard?

Olberg, Britta; Perleth, Matthias; Busse, Reinhard - In: Health Policy 117 (2014) 2, pp. 135-145

Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) has specified the details of this new approach, which can be considered a variety of “Coverage …

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Optimal estimation of cointegrated systems with irrelevant instruments

Phillips, Peter C.B. - In: Journal of Econometrics 178 (2014) P2, pp. 210-224

It has been known since Phillips and Hansen (1990) that cointegrated systems can be consistently estimated using stochastic trend instruments that are independent of the system variables. A similar phenomenon occurs with deterministically trending instruments. The present work shows that such...

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Corporate socially responsible investments: CEO altruism, reputation, and shareholder interests

Borghesi, Richard; Houston, Joel F.; Naranjo, Andy - In: Journal of Corporate Finance 26 (2014) C, pp. 164-181

Corporate managers often invest in activities that are deemed to be socially responsible. In some instances, these investments enhance shareholder value. However, in other cases, altruistic managers or managers who privately benefit from the positive attention arising from these activities may...

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One-sample Bayes inference for symmetric distributions of 3-D rotations

Qiu, Yu; Nordman, Daniel J.; Vardeman, Stephen B. - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 71 (2014) C, pp. 520-529

A variety of existing symmetric parametric models for 3-D rotations found in both statistical and materials science literatures are considered from the point of view of the “uniform-axis-random-spin” (UARS) construction. One-sample Bayes methods for non-informative priors are provided for...

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Moving up. Applying aggregate level time series analysis in the study of media coverage

Vliegenthart, Rens - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 48 (2014) 5, pp. 2427-2445

In this article the advantages of aggregate level time series analysis for the study of media coverage are discussed …

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