Controlling healthcare costs while promoting maximum health impact in the recipient countries is one the biggest … challenges for global health donors. This paper views global health donors as the regulators of monopolistic service providers … the prevailing optimal price regulation designs for monopolistic service providers. A set of non-Bayesian approaches that …

This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … provided at family health centers, which operate on a walk-in basis and are located within the neighborhoods in close proximity … health. …

System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health … care services. We consider survey data for the years 1993-2007 with information on both individualsÄ perceived health and … their utilization of health care services. Results suggest that the introduction of market incentives via a fixed …

Over the last few decades, health care services in the United States have become more geographically centralized. We … study how the loss of hospital-based obstetric units in over 400 counties affect maternal and infant health via a difference …-sections. In contrast to concerns voiced in the public discourse, the effects on a range of maternal and infant health outcomes are …

Background: India’s health sector witnessed some major policy changes in 1990s that aimed at making health services … people were having greater likelihood of using services from private health care provider. Conclusion: Interestingly, poor … that the shift from private to public sector is encouraging, provided they receive good quality health care services at …