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The same methodology Oecd and Ecofin apply to project future trends of health care expenditue is here applied to reconstruct backwards Italian health care expenditure. The time horizon is 1988-2012. Results are described and argued. Important evidence emerges on the historical value of the...
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The Ecofin-Oecd methodology is applied to reconstruct the health care expenditure evolution in Italy and in the Region Emilia Romagna. The reconstructed series can be compared to the historical series, highlighting the different capabilities of the Italian average and of the Region Emilia...
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Ecofin-Oecd methodology is applied to investigate the past trends of the public health care expenditure in Basilicata. The expenditure is standardized to take into account the composition of the population in terms of age. Did Basilicata spend too much compared to the Italian average? The answer...
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We use the same methodology, that Ecofin-Oecd apply for projecting expenditure in the medium-long term, to reconstruct expenditure in the medium-long past. It is possible to compare the effective expenditure with the reconstructed one. The effective expenditure is of course influenced by policy...
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Since the late eighties the Italian National Health System, in particular hospital care, has undergone deep reforms …. This paper evaluates the technical efficiency of Italian public hospitals in light of the main features of the hospital … composition of input endowment and the case-mix of hospital services provided. However a significant portion of variance is …
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The model studies the role of reputation in contracts between providers and purchasers of health care services. The economic literature has examined the case when the demand for health services depends on the quality offered, but because of information asymmetry, we assume that quality is not...
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Over the last decade two reforms have affected the Italian hospital system, one introducing market mechanisms, the … institutional changes and describes the evolution of the structure and the activity of the hospital system, with a focus on the … differences between regions. It highlights the following: (1) the reduction in the number of hospitals and hospital beds and the …
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