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Managed entry agreements for pharmaceuticals in Australia

Vitry, Agnes; Roughead, Elizabeth - In: Health Policy 117 (2014) 3, pp. 345-352

In Australia, a number of managed entry agreements have been developed to enable national coverage of new medicines …

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Indicators of health system coverage and activity in Ireland during the economic crisis 2008–2014 – From ‘more with less’ to ‘less with less’

Burke, Sara; Thomas, Steve; Barry, Sarah; Keegan, Conor - In: Health Policy 117 (2014) 3, pp. 275-278

A new Irish government came to power in March 2011 with the most radical proposals for health system reform in the history of the state, including improving access to healthcare, free GP care for all by 2015 and the introduction of Universal Health Insurance after 2016. All this was to be...

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Do stimulant medications improve educational and behavioral outcomes for children with ADHD?

Currie, Janet; Stabile, Mark; Jones, Lauren - In: Journal of Health Economics 37 (2014) C, pp. 58-69

We examine the effects of a policy change in the province of Quebec, Canada which greatly expanded insurance coverage …

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Inequalities in Universal Health Coverage: Evidence from Vietnam

Palmer, Michael G. - In: World Development 64 (2014) C, pp. 384-394

population groups. Significant inequalities in the coverage of service utilization and financial protection are found across …

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Investor attention and information diffusion from analyst coverage

Lin, Mei-Chen; Wu, Chu-Hua; Chiang, Ming-Ti - In: International Review of Financial Analysis 34 (2014) C, pp. 235-246

This study examines the impact of investor attention and analyst coverage on the diffusion of information. Using … from financial analysts. The effect of analyst coverage on improving stock synchronicity is greater when investors are more … attentive. Firms with less analyst coverage rely more heavily on investor attention to assimilate information. The lead …

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La couverture des introductions en bourse par les analystes financiers : quels bénéfices pour leur marché secondaire ?

Bouzouita, Nesrine - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014

This thesis aims to analyze the impact of IPO analyst coverage on the quality of the secondary market and on the future … positive relation is formed through analyst coverage. Our second study shows that analyst coverage has a significant positive … impact on IPOs survival. The third study explores the linkage between analyst coverage and subsequent seasoned equity …

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Two-sample location–scale estimation from semiparametric random censorship models

Bhattacharya, Rianka; Subramanian, Sundarraman - In: Journal of Multivariate Analysis 132 (2014) C, pp. 25-38

intervals that have correct empirical coverage and that are more informative. The proposed method is illustrated using two real …

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Enrolment of older people in social health protection programs in West Africa – Does social exclusion play a part?

Parmar, Divya; Williams, Gemma; Dkhimi, Fahdi; Ndiaye, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 119 (2014) C, pp. 36-44

Although the population of older people in Africa is increasing, and older people are becoming increasingly vulnerable due to urbanisation, breakdown of family structures and rising healthcare costs, most African countries have no social health protection for older people. Two exceptions include...

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Barriers in access to healthcare in countries with different health systems. A cross-sectional study in municipalities of central Colombia and north-eastern Brazil

Garcia-Subirats, Irene; Vargas, Ingrid; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 106 (2014) C, pp. 204-213

There are few comprehensive studies available on barriers encountered from the initial seeking of healthcare through to the resolution of the health problem; in other words, on access in its broad domain. For Colombia and Brazil, countries with different healthcare systems but common stated...

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Can social capital help explain enrolment (or lack thereof) in community-based health insurance? Results of an exploratory mixed methods study from Senegal

Mladovsky, Philipa; Soors, Werner; Ndiaye, Pascal; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 101 (2014) C, pp. 18-27

CBHI has achieved low population coverage in West Africa and elsewhere. Studies which seek to explain this point to … increase coverage, for example by enrolling households through community associations. However, this may be unadvisable from an …

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