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The Economic Costs of Non-Communicable Diseases in the Pacific Islands

Anderson, Ian - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

There is increasing recognition that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are an important international and development issue globally, undermining health gains and imposing financial and economic costs on governments and households. NCDs are an important health challenge in the Pacific. First,...

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What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy: A Primer

Hsiao, William C. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need in situations where they must address issues concerning health sector policy and when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity and growth and are fundamental to...

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Achieving MDGs 4&5: China's Progress on Maternal and Child Health

Cortez, Rafael; Saadat, Seemeen; Sarker, Intissar; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

China has made great progress in improving maternal and child health (MCH). It reduced maternal deaths from 1,500 per 100,000 live births and over 200 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 1949 to 120 per 100,000 live births and infant deaths to 42 per 1,000 by 1990. Currently China is on track...

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Pension and medicost reform - averting the demoghaphic/fiscal demise

Kotlikoff, Laurence - In: CESifo Forum 6 (2005) 4, pp. 37-41

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Kränkelnde Krankenhäuser – Ursachen und Auswirkungen des Rückgangs der Krankenhausinvestitionen der Länder

Rösel, Felix - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 20 (2013) 05, pp. 03-15

zunehmende Patientenwanderung zwischen den ändern. Ein steigender Anteil von Patienten wählt zur Behandlung ein Krankenhaus …

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How to regulate heterogeneous hospitals ?

Dormont, Brigitte; Milcent, Carine - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2005

increase hospital efficiency when hospitals are heterogeneous, without reducing the quality of care. We consider an extension … (hospital management can be permanently inefficient) and transitory moral hazard. The latter is linked to the manager … supplies delivered to the hospital by outside firms. The use of a three-dimensional nested database makes it possible to …

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The sources of hospital cost variability

Dormont, Brigitte; Milcent, Carine - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2004

Hospital heterogeneity is a major issue in defining a reimbursement system. If hospitals are heterogeneous, it is … reduced, because it is due to other unobserved sources of hospital heterogeneity. In this paper, we apply an econometric … approach to analyse hospital cost variability. We use a nested three-dimensional database (stays-hospitals-years) in order to …

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The sources of hospital cost variability.

Dormont, Brigitte; Milcent, Carine - Université Paris-Dauphine - 2004

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How to regulate heterogeneous hospitals ?.

Dormont, Brigitte; Milcent, Carine - Université Paris-Dauphine - 2005

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Health Accounts and Other Welfare Accounts

Fölster, Stefan; Gidehag, Robert; Orszag, Mike; … - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 3, pp. 09-14

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