Preconditions for efficiency and affordability in mixed health systems: are they fulfilled in the Australian public-private mix? [0.03%]
混合健康系统的高效和经济性的前提条件：澳大利亚的公私合是否满足这些条件？
Chiara Berardi,Pablo Arija Prieto,Josefa Henríquez et al.
Chiara Berardi et al.
The Australian health system is characterised by high quality care by international standards, produced by a mix of public and private provision and funding of healthcare services. Despite good overall results, three issues are of concern. ...
Managed competition in Colombia: convergence of public and private insurance and delivery [0.03%]
哥伦比亚的管理模式：公共保险和私人保险以及医疗服务的趋同
Ramon Castano,Sergio I Prada,Norman Maldonado et al.
Ramon Castano et al.
The Colombian health system has made a deep transition into managed competition since a major reform in 1993. A market for insurers was created, the consumer has free choice of insurer and a national-level equalisation fund distributes reve...
Managed competition in the United States: How well is it promoting equity and efficiency? [0.03%]
美国的管理竞争：它在促进公平与效率方面做得如何？
Randall P Ellis,Alex Hoagland,Angelique Acquatella
Randall P Ellis
Managed competition frameworks aim to control healthcare costs and promote access to high-quality health insurance and services through a combination of public policies and market forces. In the United States, managed competition delivery s...
Roadmaps to managed competition: to what extent does South Africa meet the preconditions for equity and efficiency? [0.03%]
管理竞争的道路：南非在多大程度上满足公平和效率的先决条件？
Alex van den Heever
Alex van den Heever
South Africa offers universal health coverage through large public and private systems. The private system is characterised by a regulated market for health insurance, referred to domestically as medical schemes. From 2000, the private syst...
Maria Trottmann,Piet Stam,Johan Visser et al.
Maria Trottmann et al.
Systems of managed competition naturally seek the middle ground between competition and regulation. This debate essay makes the case for adjusting the level of regulation according to the characteristics of the submarket in question. We fir...
Globalisation and mental health: is globalisation good or bad for mental health? Testing for quadratic effects [0.03%]
全球化与心理健康：全球化是有利于还是不利于心理健康？二次效应检验
Saqib Amin
Saqib Amin
This paper explores the relationship between globalisation and mental health by using the global dataset of high-, middle-, and low-income countries for the period 1970-2020. Although the consequences of globalisation on general health have...
Virtual reality evidence on the impact of physicians' open versus defensive communication on patients [0.03%]
虚拟现实证据：医生的开放式沟通与防御式沟通对患者的影响
Lotte Daniels,Wim Marneffe,Samantha Bielen
Lotte Daniels
Using virtual reality (VR) in an experimental setting, we analyse how communicating more openly about a medical incident influences patients' feelings and behavioural intentions. Using VR headsets, participants were immersed in an actual ho...
Health insurance and fertility among low-income, childless, single women: evidence from the ACA Medicaid expansions [0.03%]
平价医疗法案下的医疗补助扩展与低收入无孩单身女性的生育率之间的关系研究
J Sebastian Leguizamon
J Sebastian Leguizamon
Expansions of Medicaid family planning services have been associated with decreases in pregnancy rates. Access to a broader range of medical, non-family planning services may influence pregnancy rates as well if the increased exposure to me...
Gaston Brice Nkoumou Ngoa,Jacques Simon Song
Gaston Brice Nkoumou Ngoa
This article examines the effect of information and communication technologies (ICT) and democracy on early child health using data from 51 African countries. We first specify and estimate a panel data model using ordinary least squares and...
Is the emergency department used as a substitute or a complement to primary care in Medicaid? [0.03%]
医疗补助患者是否使用急诊科替代或补充初级保健？
Alina Denham,Elaine L Hill,Maria Raven et al.
Alina Denham et al.
Policies to decrease low-acuity emergency department (ED) use have traditionally assumed that EDs are a substitute for unavailable primary care (PC). However, such policies can exacerbate ED overcrowding, rather than ameliorate it, if patie...