Efficiency of primary care in rural Burkina Faso. A two-stage DEA analysis [0.03%]
Burkina Faso农村初级卫生保健的效率。DEA两阶段分析
Paul Marschall,Steffen Flessa
Paul Marschall
Background: Providing health care services in Africa is hampered by severe scarcity of personnel, medical supplies and financial funds. Consequently, managers of health care institutions are called to measure and improve ...
Jørgen Lauridsen,Jalandhar Pradhan
Jørgen Lauridsen
To our knowledge, the present study provides a first time assessment of the contributions of socioeconomic determinants of immunization coverage in India using the recent National Family Health Survey data. Measurement of socioeconomic ineq...
Organizational boundaries of medical practice: the case of physician ownership of ancillary services [0.03%]
医疗服务的组织边界：以医生拥有辅助服务为例分析
John E Schneider,Robert L Ohsfeldt,Cara M Scheibling et al.
John E Schneider et al.
Physician ownership of in-office ancillary services (IOASs) has come under increasing scrutiny. Advocates of argue that IOASs allow physicians to supervise the quality and coordination of care. Critics have argued that IOASs create financia...
Fernando Antoñanzas,Roberto Rodríguez-Ibeas
Fernando Antoñanzas
In this paper, we carry out a theoretical analysis of the strategic choice made by firms regarding the type of food they market when they face consumers who care about the healthy/unhealthy attributes of the product but incur in emotional/h...
Staff costs of hospital-based outpatient care of patients with cystic fibrosis [0.03%]
囊性纤维化患者的医院门诊护理人力成本
Helge Hollmeyer,Jonas Schreyögg,Ulrich Wahn et al.
Helge Hollmeyer et al.
Background: This study identified per patient resource use and staff costs at a cystic fibrosis (CF) outpatient unit from the health care provider's perspective. ...
Ansgar Wuebker
Ansgar Wuebker
On the basis of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement (SHARE), we analyse the determinants of who engages in mammography screening focusing on European women aged 50-69 years. A special emphasis is put on the measurement error of sub...
Cycling and walking for transport: Estimating net health effects from comparison of different transport mode users' self-reported physical activity [0.03%]
交通出行中的骑自行车和步行：通过不同出行方式者的自报身体活动进行健康效果的估算
Knut Veisten,Stefan Flügel,Farideh Ramjerdi et al.
Knut Veisten et al.
Background: There is comprehensive evidence of the positive health effects of physical activity, and transport authorities can enable this by developing infrastructure for cycling and walking. In particular, cycling to wo...
Considerations about the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of therapies in the treatment of hyperphosphataemia [0.03%]
治疗高磷血症的有效性和成本效益的思考
Thomas Plagemann,Anne Prenzler,Thomas Mittendorf
Thomas Plagemann
Because of an elevated serum phosphate level, patients who suffer from chronic kidney failure frequently tend to have cardiovascular calcification and are therefore exposed to a higher probability of a fatal event. Phosphate binders are abl...
Hermann Pierre Pythagore Donfouet,Pierre-Alexandre Mahieu
Hermann Pierre Pythagore Donfouet
Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) is an emerging concept for providing financial protection against the cost of illness and improving access to quality health services for low-income rural households who are excluded from formal insur...
Mind the information gap: fertility rate and use of cesarean delivery and tocolytic hospitalizations in Taiwan [0.03%]
小心信息缺口：台湾生育率与剖宫产和托卡药物住院率的关系研究
Ke-Zong M Ma,Edward C Norton,Shoou-Yih D Lee
Ke-Zong M Ma
Background: Physician-induced demand (PID) is an important theory to test given the longstanding controversy surrounding it. Empirical health economists have been challenged to find natural experiments to test the theory ...