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Integrating Health and Social Care : State or Market?

Booth, Philip - 2021

Medical and nursing care have been separated from social care by deliberate design since the creation of the NHS. This divide is now entirely artificial. People spend less time in hospital than used to be the case and 4 million people over the age of 65 have a life-limiting illness. In such...

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Reverse Cross Subsidization in Healthcare Capitation Programs : Evidence from Medicare Advantage

She, Zhaowei; Ayer, Turgay; Gokpinar, Bilal; Hughes, Danny - 2021

Capitation payment models have been increasingly adopted by the payers in the U.S. healthcare market during the past decade. However, healthcare services provided in Medicare Advantage (MA), the largest capitation program in the U.S., have been suggested to be more appealing to healthier...

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Help Wanted : How to Address Labour Shortages in Healthcare and Improve Patient Access

Wyonch, Rosalie - 2021

physicians. However, there are, as well, shortages of nurses and other healthcare providers. Another example of increasing the …. The time and costs associated with training new physicians make it infeasible to address labour shortages arising from a … crisis or an unexpected population need simply through training more of the needed physicians. However, shifting methods and …

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Allocating Medicine Fairly in an Unfair Pandemic

Persad, Govind - 2021

America’s COVID-19 pandemic has both devastated and disparately harmed minority communities. How can the allocation of scarce treatments for COVID-19 and similar public health threats fairly and legally respond to these racial disparities? Some have proposed that members of racial groups who...

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Health and Taxes : Hospitals, Community Health and the IRS

Crossley, Mary - 2021

The Affordable Care Act created new conditions of federal tax exemption for nonprofit hospitals, including a requirement that hospitals conduct a community health needs assessment (CHNA) every three years to identify significant health needs in their communities and then to develop and implement...

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Chapter 16. Health and Long-Term Care

Norton, E.C. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 951-989). 2016

This chapter summarizes the recent economic literature on health and long-term care as it relates to population aging. The profound demographic changes taking place in developed countries will require changes in how societies provide and pay for long-term care. Both the supply side and the...

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Chapter 35 Equity in health

Williams, Alan; Cookson, Richard - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1863-1910). 2000

Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the distribution of health care resources. We take as a working definition of health for our purposes the number of quality adjusted life years that a person may expect to enjoy over his or her lifetime....

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Healthcare to the Home : Enabling Distributed Health Service Delivery by Removing Barriers to Entrepreneurial Exploration

Auerswald, Philip E. - 2020

Increasing the overall share of health services provided directly to the home constitutes a significant—and as yet mostly unrealized—opportunity to improve healthcare in the United States. Home healthcare as I define it in this paper includes four service models: (1) medical house calls or...

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Restructuring Primary Health Care Network to Maximize Utilization and Reduce Patient Out-of-Pocket Expenses

Bardhan, Amit K.; Kumar, Kaushal - 2019

Providing free primary care to everyone is an important goal pursued by many countries under universal health care programs. Countries like India need to efficiently utilize their limited capacities towards this purpose. Unfortunately, due to a variety of reasons, patients incur substantial...

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The Social Value of Health : Amenable Deaths and Estimated the Gap with the Life Expectancy Frontier

Becchetti, Leonardo; Conzo, Gianluigi; Trovato, Giovanni - 2022

We estimate the life expectancy gap that can be bridged by improving the quality of public health and health care policies at EU level. Our model calculates the net effect of amenable deaths on life expectancy after controlling for fixed effects (capturing time invariant country specific factors...

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