There is a growing interest in the debate on aid effectiveness to assess the impact of aid not only on economic growth and poverty reduction, but also on intermediate outcomes such as health and education. This paper reviews evidence from recent in-depth country work on the impact of government...

Ontario healthcare reforms have made headway in improving access to primary care by implementing the "capitation" model where doctors are paid mainly for a roster of patients rather than fee-for-service – but too many of patients are still using "outside" doctors, according to a report from...

Main aim of this study is to identify barriers and critical success factors, which are affecting the level of patients’ satisfaction. Previous studies show that the perception of the quality of care and patients’ satisfaction has the associations and there are barriers which are affecting...

Vouchers are used extensively for the provision of services such as education and healthcare across the globe. They entail numerous potential benefits such as freedom of choice, better targeting of vulnerable populations and improved quality and cost effectiveness of service delivery through...

Background. Differences in health and health services use among different ethnic groups within populations have been always a major concern in democratic societies. Past research has documented the gaps both in health and in services utilization between the Israeli Arab and Jewish populations....

Honduras has recently contracted-out the provision of primary health care services to decentralized providers in order to expand health care coverage in rural areas. This paper evaluates the impact of contracting-out on health outputs and outcomes related to access, quality, and equity in health...

We develop a signalling-game theoretical model to study a policy that publicly reports hospital waiting times. We characterize two effects of such a policy: the "competition effect" that drives hospitals to compete for patients by increasing service rates and reducing waiting times, and the...

I use two nationally representative sets of medical claim data from the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare in Japan to examine how medical assistance system assignment affects beneficiary utilization of short-term inpatient health care. Since assignment of public assistance by local...

In this case designed for use in a business school, medical center, or health policy program, Kingstar Winning’s president, Zhou Wei, seeks to position his company for faster growth in anticipation of a market shakeup among providers of electronic medical records (EMRs) and eHealth solutions...