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The value of socialized medicine : the impact of universal primary healthcare provision on birth and mortality rates in Turkey

Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pınar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; … - 2015

This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...

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Heterogeneous effects of medical interventions on the health of low-risk newborns

Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; Ewijk, Reyn van - 2016

We investigate the impact of early-life medical interventions on low-risk newborn health. A policy rule in The Netherlands creates large discontinuities in medical treatments at gestational week 37. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find no health benefits from additional treatments...

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Vaccine-skeptic physicians and COVID-19 vaccination rates

Steinmayr, Andreas; Rossi, Manuel - 2022

from the signatories of an open letter in which 199 Austrian physicians expressed their skepticism about COVID-19 vaccines …

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Physicians and the production of health : returns to health care during the mortality transition

Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2022

expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in … the supply of physicians reduce infant mortality and mortality from common childhood diseases. Using a semiparametric …

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Quality and quantity in primary care mixed payment models : evidence from family health organizations in Ontario

Kantarevic, Jasmin; Kralj, Boris - 2011

physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of administrative data that covers one year before and two years after the FHO model … was introduced in 2007, we find that physicians in the FHO model provide about 6 percent fewer services and visits per day … immunizations, pap smears, and mammograms compared to physicians in the FHG model. These results are largely consistent with the …

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Cut off from new competition : threat of entry and quality of primary care

Brüll, Eduard; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Schlenker, Oliver - 2024

We study how the threat of entry affects service quantity and quality of general practitioners (GPs). We leverage Germany's needs-based primary care planning system, in which the likelihood of new GPs reduces by 20 percentage points when primary care coverage exceeds a cut-off. We compile novel...

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Enhanced fee-for-service model and access to physician services : evidence from Family Health Groups in Ontario

Kantarevic, Jasmin; Kralj, Boris; Weinkauf, Darrel - 2010

We study an enhanced fee-for-service model for primary care physicians in the Family Health Groups (FHG) in Ontario … distinct patients seen. We also find that the FHG physicians have lower referral rates and treat slightly more complex patients … than the comparable FFS physicians. These results suggest that the FHG model offers a promising alternative to the FFS …

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Overweight and obesity and the demand for primary physician care

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Greve, Jane - 2009

The standard economic model for the demand for health care predicts that unhealthy behaviour such as being overweight or obese should increase the demand for medical care, particularly as clinical studies link obesity to a number of serious diseases. In this paper, we investigate whether...

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Information provision and streamlined medical service : evidence from a mobile appointment app

Song, Changcheng; Yang, Nan; Yi, Junjian; Yuan, Ye - 2018

We examine the launch of a mobile outpatient appointment app in China to study the effect of information provision and a streamlined appointment process on hospital operations and the alignment of healthcare supply and demand. Using a longitudinal dataset on hospital operations and a...

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Medical residency subsidies and physician shortages

McNamara, Cici; Pineda-Torres, Mayra - 2024

We quantify the impact of federal subsidies for graduate medical education on primary care physician (PCP) supply by examining the impact of Section 5503 of the Affordable Care Act, which increased the number of residents that teaching hospitals in rural and high-need areas could receive...

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