The objective of this study consists in quantifying in money terms the potential reduction in usage of public health … care outlets associated to the tenure of double (public plus private) insurance. In order to address the problem, a … probabilistic model for visits to physicians is specified and estimated using data from the Catalonian Health Survey. Also, a model …

The objective of this study consists in quantifying in money terms the potential reduction in usage of public health … care outlets associated to the tenure of double (public plus private) insurance. In order to address the problem, a … probabilistic model for visits to physicians is specified and estimated using data from the Catalonian Health Survey. Also, a model …

This paper studies the mechanism for the equity of payments for using the Colombian health system, defined as the … payment system are studied, as well as a particular case of a homogeneous population. Health services are grouped together …

efficiency of health centres in Finland between 1990 and 2003. To address potential non-random or endogenous treatment assignment … insignificant on the productive efficiency of health centres. … contrast to earlier studies, this paper approaches the economies of scale issue by analysing the break-ups of municipal health …

, including variables that were insignificant in the global parameter models. Results suggest health care scholars consider … varying parameter models in order to avoid global statements concerning health care relationships and evaluating the … performance of health policy. …

to U.S. health utilization data for the elderly from the National Medical Expenditure Survey …

traditional non-managed care health plans. We apply the service selection model of Ellis and McGuire (2007) to recent, highly … disaggregated commercial insurance data from Medstat MarketScan. Rankings of services by selection incentives give largely the same … rankings as the EM results for Medicare. We next calculate selection indices separately for four types of health plans: non …

comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health products in … Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either for free or for …

comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health products in … Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either for free or for …