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Does uninsurance affect the health outcomes of the insured? : evidence from heart attack patients in California

Daysal, N. Meltem - 2012

In this paper, I examine the impact of uninsured patients on the health of the insured, focusing on one health outcome - the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and hospital financial data from California (1999-2006). My...

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Planning health care capacities with a gravity equation

Wende, Danny; Kopetsch, Thomas; Richter, Wolfram F. - 2020

eines angemessenen und gleichmäßigen Zugangs zur Gesundheitsversorgung erschwert. Darüber hinaus fehlt den Standard … Gesundheitsversorgung zu treffen. In diesem Beitrag wird ein Modell vorgestellt, das auf der Idee der Schwerkraft in der Angebots- und … Einzugsgebieten, den räumlichen Zugang zur Gesundheitsversorgung und die Nachfrage nach fachärztlicher Behandlung abgeleitet. Die …

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Barszczewska, Olga; Chami, Ralph; Piechota, Anna - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 23 (2020) 2, pp. 103-115

The EU approved the first biosimilar drug in 2006. By 2017, the EU had authorized the highest number of biosimilars worldwide, acquiring considerable experience in their use and safety. In May 2019, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) search engine showed 54 authorized biosimilars. Biosimilars...

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Decentralisation and performance measurement systems in health care

Beazley, Ivor - 2019

Based on an OECD survey, this paper presents quantitative and qualitative data on the decentralisation of health systems, focusing on how they vary according to different institutional characteristics and what types of performance measurement systems are used in the health sector....

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Who will be the mediator? : local politics and hospital closures in Germany

Sriubaite, Ieva - 2021

2012 auf den Zugang zur Gesundheitsversorgung und verschiedene klinische Ergebnisse der Patienten. Um Verzerrungen durch … schlechteren Zugang zur Gesundheitsversorgung haben, dies führt aber nicht zu einer geringeren Überlebensrate bei akuten …

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Addressing private practice in public hospitals

Guo, Xidong; Parlane, Sarah - 2020

experience) to get a greater private income than junior doctors when discrimination between senior and junior physicians is …

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Improving China's Health Care System

Herd, Richard - 2010

Overall, health outcomes in China have improved tremendously over the past three decades, especially thanks to the reduction in some traditional infectious diseases. However, death rates from chronic diseases have been on the rise, not least owing to changes in life styles and deteriorating...

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Balancing Health Care Quality and Cost Containment : The Case of Norway

Ivanchuk Bibbee, Alexandra I. - 2006

In recent years, a series of wide-ranging reforms designed to make greater use of market mechanisms has succeeded in eliminating shortages, raising efficiency and improving citizen satisfaction. Nevertheless, spending accelerated after the reforms, and per capita spending on health is now one of...

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Complexities of health and acceptance of electronic health records for the Austrian elderly population

Halmdienst, Nicole; Pruckner, Gerald J.; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2021

We examine the personal health situation and how the complexities thereof affect the elderly Austrians' willingness to accept electronic health records (EHR). Using data from the sixth wave of the SHARE survey in Austria, we find the complexity of individual health problems and the social...

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Gendered barriers to formal healthcare utilization : modelling healthcare demand in a lowresource setting

Cavatorta, Elisa; Janssens, Wendy; Mesnard, Alice - 2021

This paper develops a model of healthcare demand to study healthcare choices in resourcelimited settings with poor health indicators, especially for women. Using data from rural Nigeria on individual illnesses and injuries as well as the entire portfolio of locally available providers, we...

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