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Advancing patient safety governance in the COVID-19 response

de Bienassis, Katherine - 2023

In the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring the safety of health care services remains a serious, ongoing challenge. This once-in-a-century global health crisis exposed the vulnerability of healthcare delivery systems and the subsequent risks of patient harm. Given the scale of the...

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Who Values Human Capitalists' Human Capital? The Earnings and Labor Supply of U.S. Physicians

Gottlieb, Joshua D.; Polyakova, Maria; Rinz, Kevin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

physicians' earnings and estimate the influence of healthcare policies on these earnings, physicians' labor supply, and … allocation of talent. Combining the administrative registry of U.S.~physicians with tax data, Medicare billing records, and … survey responses, we find that physicians' annual earnings average $350,000 and comprise 8.6% of national healthcare spending …

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Medical residency subsidies and physician shortages

McNamara, Cici; Pineda-Torres, Mayra - 2024

We quantify the impact of federal subsidies for graduate medical education on primary care physician (PCP) supply by examining the impact of Section 5503 of the Affordable Care Act, which increased the number of residents that teaching hospitals in rural and high-need areas could receive...

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A review of external assistance and aid effectiveness for maternal and child health : challenges and opportunities

Bhutta, Zulfiqar Ahmed; Aleem, Samia - 2013

This paper primarily focuses on how global funding has supported interventions that have proven to be successful in reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality around the world. The growth rate of development assistance targeted towards these specific interventions has varied greatly over...

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How confidence in health care systems affects mobility and compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic

Chan, Ho Fai; Brumpton, Martin; Macintyre, Alison; … - 2020

Trust in the health care system requires being confident that sufficient and appropriate treatments will be provided if needed. The COVID-19 public health crisis is a significant, global, and (mostly) simultaneous test of the behavioral implications arising from this trust. We explore whether...

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Divided we survive? : multi-level governance and policy uncertainty during the first wave of Covid-19

Angelici, Marta; Berta, Paolo; Costa-Font, Joan; … - 2021

We compare health system responses to the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain. In both countries, healthcare is managed at the regional level, but the central government behaved differently in the uncertainty surrounding the first wave, leaving more autonomy to regional...

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Primum Non-Nocere : How to Fight the ‘Pandemic’ of Healthcare Corruption

Bîzoi, Alexandra-Codruța; Bîzoi, Gabriel - 2022

During these times, the resilience of humankind is put to the test by the ravages of COVID-19. Besides the virus, endemic corruption becomes pandemic since some individuals seek unethical gains and peril others' lives, engaging in corrupt, fraudulent behaviors. The East European countries have...

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Early COVID-19 Policy Response on Healthcare Equity Prices

Gurrib, Ikhlaas - 2021

Purpose: This study investigates the implementation of the short selling ban policy imposed by the Italian stock exchange on healthcare stock prices, as a tool to mitigate COVID-19 price effects. Important contributions are in terms of assessing (i) the effect of the temporary short selling ban...

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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Non-COVID-19 Healthcare Utilization in Mexico

Silverio-Murillo, Adan; Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren; Balmori … - 2021

Objective: To analyze the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on non-COVID-19 healthcare utilization in Mexico, including oral health, mental health, communicable diseases, health check-up, chronic degenerative diseases, postpartum care, prenatal care, and family planning.Methods: We use...

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Life expectancy and mother-baby interventions : evidence from a historical trial

Bhalotra, Sonia; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2016

This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...

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