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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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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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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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State-Level Healthcare Spending and Health Outcomes : An Application of Spatial Durbin Panel Approach to Mortality

Bose, Srimoyee - 2015

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Gesundheitsökonomischer Stellenwert einer flächendeckenden ambulanten Facharztversorgung : Entwicklung, Stand und Perspektiven

Wille, Eberhard; Erdmann, Daniel - 2011 - 1. Aufl.

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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 …

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Governance of Preventive Health Intervention and on Time Verification of its Efficiency in a Region of Southern Italy : The Giove Study

Mennini, Francesco Saverio; Baio, Gianluca; Montagano, … - 2011

Background: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programmes should substantially reduce costs generated by HPV-related diseases. More valuable economic results were showed with predictive models based on a multi-cohort vaccination strategy. In a region of southern Italy, a quadrivalent-based...

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What Influences National and Foreign Physicians’ Geographic Distribution? An Analysis of National and International Medical Doctors’ Residence Location in Portugal

Russo, Giuliano; Ferrinho, Paulo; De Sousa, Bruno - 2010

The debate over physicians’ distribution has attracted the attention of the economic and public health literature over … the last forty years. Nonetheless, it is still to date unclear what determines physicians’ location, and whether foreign … physicians contribute to fill the geographical gaps left by national doctors in any given country. The present research sets out …

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Rising geographic disparities in US mortality

Couillard, Benjamin K.; Foote, Christopher L.; Gandhi, … - 2021 - This version: September 2021

The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply because states such as New York or California benefited...

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Regional health care decentralization in unitary states : equal spending, equal satisfaction?

Costa-Font, Joan; Turati, Gilberto - 2016

Does regional decentralization threaten the commitment to regional equality in government outcomes? We attempt to shed light on this question by drawing on unique evidence from the largest European unitary states to have engaged in countrywide health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We...

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