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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337077
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The Healer or the Druggist : Effects of Two Health Care Policies in Taiwan on Elderly Patients’ Choice between Physician and Pharmacist Services
Chang, Simon - 2012
Physicians and pharmacists in Taiwan both prescribed and dispensed drugs; many elderly people considered the two types … citizens and a separation policy (SP) that forbids physicians from dispensing and pharmacists from prescribing drugs. I find … visited pharmacists become more likely to also visit physicians after NHI was implemented. On the other hand, through legal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014172279
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Effects of geographical accessibility on the use of outpatient care services : quasi-experimental evidence from panel count data ; geographical accessibility and the use of outpatient care services
Elek, Petér S.; Váradi, Balázs; Varga, Márton - 2015
In 2010-2012 new outpatient service locations were established in Hungarian micro-regions, which had lacked such capacities before. We exploit this quasi-experiment to estimate the effect of geographical accessibility on outpatient case numbers using both individual-level and semi-aggregate...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455287
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Heterogeneous Effects of Medical Interventions on the Health of Low-Risk Newborns
Daysal, N. Meltem - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996532
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Gesundheitsökonomischer Stellenwert einer flächendeckenden ambulanten Facharztversorgung : Entwicklung, Stand und Perspektiven
Wille, Eberhard; Erdmann, Daniel - 2011 - 1. Aufl.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309851
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Gesundheitsökonomischer Stellenwert einer flächendeckenden ambulanten Facharztversorgung : Entwicklung, Stand und Perspektiven
Wille, Eberhard; Erdmann, Daniel - 2011 - 1. Aufl. 2011
Analyse, welche die Voraussetzungen einer effizienten und effektiven Gesundheitsversorgung an den Schnittstellen zwischen dem … Analyse, welche die Voraussetzungen einer effizienten und effektiven Gesundheitsversorgung an den Schnittstellen zwischen dem …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011674809
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013443708
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013459583
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Physician density and infant mortality : a semiparametric analysis of the returns to health care provision
Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2018
This paper investigates the effect of physicians on infant mortality, stillbirths and the incidence of common childhood … endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the expulsion of Jewish physicians from health insurance schemes by the … control function approach. Our results indicate that the marginal returns to physicians are highly nonlinear and decreasing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898604