of both patients and physicians. Introducing this concept in a spatial economics model, we derive an augmented gravity … conduct a rich set of counterfactual simulations, illustrating that the effects of physicians' market exits on patient … mobility crucially depend on their exact locations. …

of both patients and physicians. Introducing this concept in a spatial economics model, we derive an augmented gravity … conduct a rich set of counterfactual simulations, illustrating that the effects of physicians' market exits on patient … mobility crucially depend on their exact locations. …

of both patients and physicians. Introducing this concept in a spatial economics model, we derive an augmented gravity …This paper estimates a theory-guided gravity equation of regional patient flows. In our model, a patient’s choice to … conduct a rich set of counterfactual simulations, illustrating that the effects of physicians’ market exits on patient …

Free patient mobility among autonomous providers has been often considered an effective stimulus for enhancing …-2010) panel of Italian data on hospital discharges to assess the determinants of inter-regional mobility and to distinguish … specialization and performance indicators are important drivers of patient mobility. Moreover, geography matters and spatial …

area method to augment the gravity equation. We apply this idea to analyze patient mobility by using easily available and … spatially explicit information on physicians' locations (supply) and grid-level population data (demand). Our approach improves …

individual health risk of the population especially for chronic patients is imminent. The dramatic increase of Covid-19 cases and … of the population concerning their health risk while visiting the physicians, which additionally had an impact on the … practitioner. Additionally, the general practitioners revealed increased concerns about their own and the patients' safety in their …