In this paper, we explore the effects of primary care physician (PCP) practice competition on five distinct quality metrics directly tied to screening, follow-up care, and prescribing behavior under Medicare Part B. Controlling for physician, practice, and area characteristics as well as zip...

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have become the major cause of disease burden in the Philippines. In 2019, NCDs accounted for about 70 percent of the 600,000 deaths nationwide; this is projected to increase in the medium to long term. The premature deaths due to NCDs are increasing in a much...

The Meaning of Marketing -- Marketing Strategy -- The Environment of Marketing Strategy -- Buyer Behavior -- Marketing Research -- Market Segmentation -- Developing Customer Loyalty -- Marketing in the Digital Age -- Product Strategy -- Prices -- Distribution -- Promotion -- Advertising -- Sales...

Health systems globally face increasing morbidity and mortality from chronic disease, yet many--especially in low- and middle-income countries--lack strong primary care. We analyze China's efforts to promote primary care management for insured rural Chinese with chronic disease, analyzing unique...

Health indicators in the Philippines currently lag well behind what will be expected given the country's level of economic development. Immunization rates are at their lowest point in 10 years, maternal mortality remains very high, one in three Filipino children suffer from malnutrition, and the...

Turkey has realized a very successful health reform between 2003 and 2013. The Ministry of Health (MoH) has developed strategic objectives and major transformation processes under the reform primarily focused on people and gave priority to improve and reshape the primary care structure through...

This report aims to provide insights into how health services are delivered at the grassroots level to support the expansion of access to quality health services in Vietnam with a focus on primary health care (PHC). It intends to identify any challenges in this area and emphasize the importance...

Background: Disparity in resource allocation is an issue among various health delivery units in Ethiopia. To sufficiently address this problem decision-makers require evidence on efficient allocation of resources. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess the technical efficiency of...

Background: By performing case management, general practitioners and health care assistants can provide additional benefits to their chronically ill patients. However, the economic effects of such case management interventions often remain unclear although how to manage the burden of chronic...

There is limited information on whether integrating childhood interventions with health and nutrition services interventions is effective and feasible. In this trial we used group delivery at five routine visits from age 3-18 months, and comprised: short films of child development messages,...

This paper investigates the consequences that patients face when their regular primary care provider closes down her practice, typically due to retirement. We estimate the causal impact of closures on patients' utilization patterns, medical expenditures, hospitalizations, and health plan choice....

Romania faces high levels of amenable mortality reflecting, in part, the relatively low utilization rates of high-quality primary health care (PHC), particularly for non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention and treatment. Provider payment mechanisms do not reward the high-quality care provision...

Primary health care in Brazil is well-organised, the result of sustained commitment to providing high quality primary health care for the whole population. Brazil has implemented a set of reforms over the past decades to improve the distribution of doctors, develop new forms of service...

"This book provides knowledge and skills to allow readers with the ability to apply management and marketing techniques on strategic, tactical and operational aspects of organizations with emphasis on the healthcare industry presenting strategies on topics such as operations management, quality...

This chapter describes and seeks to take stock of a cluster of supply-side reforms that aimed to revitalize what was described by the Croatian Public Health Institute as a passive and low-impact primary care system. The cluster of reforms, which include a mix of organizational, primary care...

We study spillover effects from the largest increase in Medicaid reimbursement rates in the history of the program for primary care services to behavioral health and healthcare outcomes; mental illness, substance use disorders, and tobacco product use. Much of the variation in Medicaid...

Using the World Management Survey method, we map and analyse management quality in Swedish primary care centres. On average, private providers have higher management quality than public ones. We also find that centres with a high overall social deprivation among enrolled patients tend to have...

We study spillover effects of the largest ever increase in Medicaid primary care reimbursement rates on behavioral health and healthcare outcomes; mental illness, substance use disorders, and tobacco product use. Much of the variation in Medicaid reimbursement rates we leverage is attributable...

"A useful practitioner guide for those working in health care organizations Updated coverage to the recent developments in the health care industry Discussion on health care marketing issues are backed by scholarly publications, industry expert opinions, surveys, case studies and real-world best...

"This provocative and timely book examines the current state of primary care practice and outlines a new vision for the delivery of primary care services, primarily in the UK but also internationally. Encouraging a social compact between citizens, governments and the providers of care, the book...

From resources to beneficiaries : an introduction of an end-to-end resource tracking & management framework and its application for primary health care development in LMICs / Hong Wang, Dan Kress, Peter Berman -- Five decades of health resource tracking and beyond / Nirmala Ravishankar, Ravi...

Human rights and access to essential medicines -- The human right to health and the virtue of creative resolve -- Promoting global health : the case for a Global Health Impact labelling and licensing -- Individual responsibility for promoting global health : the case for a new kind of socially...

"Medicaid is a big deal. It is the U.S. health insurance safety net for low-income pregnant women and children, but it also affects many people above the poverty line, including disabled people in middle-class families and aged adults who, in an unsettlingly common pattern, live working class or...