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Gouveia, Miguel - 2010

This paper specifies a model of the determinants of total expenditure on health care. The model shows how this expenditure is divided between the public and private sectors when public expenditures are chosen by majority rule. From the theoretical model I derive two equations determining the...

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Physician density in a two-tiered health care system

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

We investigate the density of private physicians in a two-tiered health care system, i.e., one with co-existing public …

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Improving the Efficiency of Health Care Spending : Selected Evidence on Hospital Performance

Erlandsen, Espen - 2007

There are no ready-made data on hospital outputs and inputs which would allow comprehensive international comparisons … of hospital efficiency to be carried out. This paper, therefore, relies on selected evidence to compare hospital … standard hospital treatments; ii) overall efficiency levels in a set of paired countries; iii) within-country dispersion in …

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Comparative assessment of patient safety culture performance in OECD countries : Findings based on the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture versions 1 and 2

de Bienassis, Katherine - 2024

the state-of-the-art of patient safety measurement using the Hospital Survey of Patient Safety Culture (HSPSC) and is the … perceptions of safe staffing and workpace levels and response to errors among hospital workers, areas that could be targeted for …

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International comparison of South African private hospital price levels

Lorenzoni, Luca; Roubal, Tomas - 2016

The health system in South Africa is unique in many ways. South Africa spends 41.8% of total health expenditures on private voluntary health insurance – more than any OECD country – but only 17% of the population – mostly high income citizens - can afford to purchase private insurance....

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Doctors with Borders : Occupational Licensing as an Implicit Barrier to High-Skill Migration

Peterson, Brenton; Pandya, Sonal S.; Leblang, David - 2013

, received fewer new migrant physicians. By our estimates half of all US states could resolve their physician shortages within …

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International Comparisons of Health Care Expenditures : What We Know and What We Do Not Know

Kanavos, Panos; Mossialos, Elias - 2010

International comparisons of health care expenditures and their determinants have attracted considerable attention since the early 1960s and have since been used widely to compare countries. The impetus for this has been two-fold: firstly, to assess the macroeconomic efficiency of health systems...

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Effect of Air Pollution on Health Care Expenditure : Evidence from Respiratory Diseases

Liu, Ya-Ming; Ao, Chon-Kit - 2021

Recent reports show that at least 95% of the world’s population is breathing polluted air. However, the impact of air quality on air pollution-related medical expenditure and utilization is sparse. This study estimates the short-term health care cost impacts of air pollution using a...

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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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The Effect of Government Control Over Health Care Expenditures on Health Care System Efficiency in the U.S. and Other OECD Countries, 1972-2009

Deppen, Ray - 2015

This paper focuses on the question: Does public or private control of health care lead to greater healthcare system efficiency? The data analysis demonstrates a curvilinear relationship between government control over health care and health care system inefficiency and that, as a result, a...

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