Physicians' decisions whether or not to veto generic substitution were analyzed using a sample of 350,000 pharmaceutical prescriptions. Point estimates show that - compared to county-employed physicians on salary - physicians working at private practices were 50-80% more likely to veto...

The Chhetrapati Family Welfare Center (CFWC) in Nepal provided comprehensive family planning and maternal and child health (MCH) services during morning hours. Because no services were provided in the afternoon hours, full-time staff was not fully utilized. An operations research study was...

About 1.4 billion people around the world still do not have access to the regular electricity. It is estimated that roughly 85% of the people without electricity live in rural, semi-urban or remote rural areas of the sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Although grid expansion is a vital objective...

Government healthcare expenditures have been growing much more rapidly than GDP in OECD countries. For example, between 1970 and 2002 these expenditures grew 2.3 times faster than GDP in the U.S., 2.0 times faster than GDP in Germany, and 1.4 times faster than GDP in Japan. How much of...

By 1993, over 70 of all Americans with health insurance were enrolled in some form of managed care plan. The term managed care encompasses a diverse array of institutional arrangements, which combine various sets of mechanisms, that, in turn, have changed over time. The chapter reviews these...