It has been argued that activity based payment systems make hospitals focus on the diagnostic groups that are most profitable given costs and reimbursement rates. This article tests the hypothesis by exploring the relationship between changes in the DRG reimbursement rates and changes in the...

On the basis of a randomized controlled trial we estimate the cost per life-year gained for six different strategies for colorectal cancer screening. Individuals in the age group 50 to 64 years were randomly selected for either flexible sigmoidoscopy or a combination of flexible sigmoidoscopy...

Rapporten gir en oversikt over hvordan norske sykehus er organisert i årene 1999 og 2001. Materialet baserer seg på besvarelser fra 59 av 62 spurte somatiske sykehus. Utvalgte hovedfunn er: <p> - Økende ansvarliggjøring av avdelingene i form av tilsettingsmyndighet, avdelingsvise budjetter og...</p>

Discrete-time hazard models for cancer mortality in cancer patients were estimated from register and census data to find out whether various socio-economic, ideational and institutional community factors had an impact on cancer survival in Norway in the 1990s, also beyond that of the...

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the debate on population aging and growth in health expenditures. The Red Herring hypothesis, i.e., that hospital expenditures are driven by the occurrence of mortal illnesses, and not patients’ age, forms the basis of the study. The data applied in...

This paper analyses the extents to which variations in revenues and memberships of health charities – or patient organisations – might be explained by characteristics of the diseases that the organisations represent. After a theoretical discussion it inquires into 45 Norwegian patient...

The units found strongly efficient in DEA studies on efficiency can be divided into self-evaluators and active peers, depending on whether the peers are referencing any inefficient units or not. The contribution of the paper starts with subdividing the selfevaluators into interior and exterior...

The objective of this study is to estimate associations between social capital and health when other factors are controlled for. Data from the survey of level-of-living conditions by Statistics Norway are merged with data from several other sources. The merged files combine data at the...

Dette notatet beskriver begrunnelsen for helsetjenesteforsikring med egenbetaling slik man finner den i den økonomiske litteraturen. Notatet understreker betydningen av å ta hensyn til samspillet mellom etterspørsels- og tilbudssiden i helsetjenestemarkedet når en vil studere virkningene av...

When entering the job market registered nurses (RNs) face job alternatives with differences in wages and other job attributes. Previous studies of the nursing labor market have shown large earnings differences between similar hospital and non-hospital RNs. Corresponding differences are found in...