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fees that states paid physicians for services covered by the Medicaid program over the period 1998–2004. Controlling for an …
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, the practicing physicians tend to be older and young doctors are becoming less willing to settle in their own surgery. To … cope with these challenges the Regional Associations of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Brandenburg …
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In Germany there is an ongoing debate on the adequate distribution of physicians that are obliged to guarantee the …. From a health economics point of view it has to be discussed which role physicians have to play within different forms of … organizing care and cure. In the paper, a standardized utility function that depicts physicians’ interest helps to figure out the …
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General practitioner (GP) care in Germany is characterized by a disparate distribution of GPs. There is considerable oversupply in many urban areas while there is undersupply in many rural regions. Centralized planning of GP capacities so far has not been able to ameliorate this unequal...
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This role of faith-inspired health care providers in sub-saharan Africa and public-private partnerships is comprised of a three volume series on strengthening the evidence for faith inspired engagement in health in sub-Saharan Africa. An increasing level of interest in the role of faith in...
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This chapter reviews the literature devoted to studying markets for health care services and health insurance. There has been tremendous growth and progress in this field. A tremendous amount of new research has been done since the publication of the first volume of this Handbook. In addition,...
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Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain management, health care financing, governance and service...
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This review study explores the “brain drain” currently evident amongst physicians in Greece, which is closely linked to … opportunities and thus physicians are forsaking their homeland to seek jobs abroad. The main causes generating or greatly inflating … the brain drain of Greek physicians are unemployment, job insecurity, income reduction, over-taxation, together with …
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Laboratories have historically been under supported in developing country health systems resulting in poor quality diagnosis and inadequate disease surveillance. Laboratory professionals are predominantly male with relatively limited female labor participation, with potential gender based...
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