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The urban-rural gap in health care infrastructure : does government ideology matter?

Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2019

Spatial inequalities in publicly provided goods such as health care facilities have substantial socioeconomic effects. Little is known, however, as to why publicly provided goods diverge among urban and rural regions. We exploit narrow parliamentary majorities in German states between 1950 and...

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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,...

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Understanding Inappropriateness in health care : the role of supply structure, pricing policies and political institutions in caesarean deliveries

Francese, Maura; Piacenza, Massimiliano; Romanelli, Marzia - 2011 - (Preliminary version)

factors, such as providers/physicians incentives. Not surprisingly, the incidence of caesarean sections is often used as an …

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Health Care Systems : Efficiency and Institutions

Joumard, Isabelle - 2010

This paper presents a set of indicators to assess health care system performance. It also presents new comparative data on health care policies and institutions for OECD countries. This set of indicators allows the empirical characterisation of health care systems and the identification of...

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Healthcare system efficiency and its drivers in pre- and COVID-19 pandemic settings

Vishniakov, Dmitry; Kasiev, Naken Kasievič; … - In: Business, mangagement and economics engineering : BMEE 21 (2023) 2, pp. 293-310

highlighted the role of the health workforce, emphasizing the caution for the reduction of physicians in the system. Research …

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Physicians and the production of health : returns to health care during the mortality transition

Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2022

expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in … the supply of physicians reduce infant mortality and mortality from common childhood diseases. Using a semiparametric …

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Physicians and the production of health : returns to health care during the mortality transition

Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2022

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Entry and exit of physicians in a two-tiered public/private health care system

Gächter, Martin; Schwazer, Peter; Theurl, Engelbert - 2011

and exit decisions of physicians in the private sector of the outpatient part of the Austrian health care system. We apply … - 2008. We are particularly interested in the question how public physicians (GPs/specialists) and their private counterparts … influence the entrance and exit of private physicians. We find a significantly negative effect of existing capacities, measured …

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First Do No Harm : Protecting Patients Through Immunizing Health Care Workers

Najera, Rene; Reiss, Dorit Rubinstein - 2016

To protect vulnerable patients, hospitals increasingly adopt policies requiring health care workers to be vaccinated against influenza. More than twenty states have also enacted statutes or regulations on the topic. A small minority of health care workers oppose the requirement, and several have...

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Gatekeeping in Health Care

Brekke, Kurt R.; Nuscheler, Robert; Straume, Odd Rune - 2021

We study the competitive effects of restricting direct access to secondary care by gatekeeping, focusing on the informational role of general practitioners (GPs). In the secondary care market there are two hospitals choosing quality and specialisation. Patients, who are ex ante uninformed, can...

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