likely to choose private hospitals; and that dominant drivers of sorting between public and private providers are health … suggest differences in health explain 18% of the difference in the use of private providers between rich and poor patients … market frictions, limited variation in payments made to hospitals according to patient health means that sorting is estimated …

This paper considers the influence of patients' characteristics on their evaluation of a health system's responsiveness …, that is, a system's ability to respond to the legitimate expectations of potential users regarding non-health enhancing … standard socio-demographic characteristics influence the reporting style of health care users with regard to the question of …

Health spending per capita in England has more than doubled since 1997, yet relatively little is known about how that … spending is distributed across the population. This paper uses administrative National Health Service (NHS) hospital records to …

Several studies of health system responsiveness focus on the demand-side by investigating the association between socio … ordered probit model, we are able to correct for variations in individual reporting behaviour due to the health status of …

elective surgery responds following the entry of private providers into the market for publicly funded health care in England …

Several studies of health system responsiveness focus on the demand-side by investigating the association between socio … ordered probit model, we are able to correct for variations in individual reporting behaviour due to the health status of …