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Capability and Well-Being in the Forest Villages and Tea Gardens in Dooars Region of North Bengal

Majumder, Amlan - 2014

This e-book is based on a Minor Research Project sponsored by the University Grants Commission (UGC), India. It investigates quality of life related issues especially about how the forest villagers and tea-plantation workers of Dooars region in North Bengal (West Bengal, India) are provided with...

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Entry and Exit of Physicians in a two-tiered public/private Health Care System

Gächter, Martin; Schwazer, Peter; Theurl, Engelbert - 2011

and exit decisions of physicians in the private sector of the outpatient part of the Austrian health care system. We apply … - 2008. We are particularly interested in the question how public physicians (GPs/specialists) and their private counterparts … influence the entrance and exit of private physicians. We find a significantly negative effect of existing capacities, measured …

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Impact of aging on curative health care workforce: Country report Poland

Golinowska, Stanisława; Kocot, Ewa; Sowa, Agnieszka - 2014

The report discusses employment in the health care system in Poland based on analysis and projections of the demand and supply of medical workforce. The impact of the financial situation and policy on relativelly low employment level of medical personel was accounted for in the analysis while...

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Essential notion of the health economic evaluation: Definition

Botchkarev, Alexei - In: Atlantic Review of Economics 2 (2016)

Background: Economic evaluation (EE) is a dynamically advancing knowledge area of health economics. It has been conceived to provide evidence for allocating scarce resources to gain the best value for money. The problem of efficiency of investments becomes even more crucial with advances in...

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Financing health care and the development prospects of private health insurance in Poland

Laskowska, Iwona - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 18 (2018) 2, pp. 703-716

Polish legislation names the general health insurance system as the main source of health care funding. Public health care funding in Poland is relatively small compared with other European countries, which restricts population's access to medical services and exposes the health care system to...

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More Hospital Choices, More C-Sections: Evidence from Chile

de Elejalde, Ramiro; Giolito, Eugenio - 2019

In this paper, we study the effect on cesarean rates of a policy change in Chile that decreased the cost of delivery at private hospitals for women with public health insurance. Using a difference-in-differences (DID) approach based on the eligibility conditions for this benefit, we find that in...

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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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The urban-rural gap in health care infrastructure - does government ideology matter?

Potrafke, Niklas; Roesel, Felix - 2019

Spatial inequalities in publicly provided goods such as health care facilities have substantial socio-economic 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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What are the health effects of postponing retirement? An instrumental variable approach

Hagen, Johannes - 2016

This essay estimates the causal effect of postponing retirement on a wide range of health outcomes using Swedish administrative data on cause-specific mortality, hospitalizations and drug prescriptions. Exogenous variation in retirement timing comes from a reform which raised the age at which...

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Taking the CON out of Pennsylvania: Did Hip and Knee Replacement Patients Benefit?

Averett, Susan L.; Terrizzi, Sabrina; Wang, Yang - 2017

Policymakers and the general public have expressed increasing concern over rising health care costs. The Certificate-of-Need (CON) programs began at the federal level in 1974 to stem the increase in costs by limiting hospital expansion and acquisition of equipment. The federal requirement for...

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