Strategic behaviour and decision making in competitive hospital markets: an experimental investigation [0.03%]
竞争性医院市场中的策略行为和决策的实验研究
Johann Han,Nadja Kairies-Schwarz,Markus Vomhof
Johann Han
We investigate quality provision and the occurrence of strategic behaviour in competitive hospital markets where providers are assumed to be semi-altruistic towards patients. For this, we employ a laboratory experiment with a hospital marke...
How to increase acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine among poor people in Africa? [0.03%]
如何提高非洲穷人的新冠疫苗接受度？
Mathieu Juliot Mpabe Bodjongo
Mathieu Juliot Mpabe Bodjongo
This study aims to analyze whether good government management of the COVID-19 pandemic can increase the likelihood of vaccine uptake among poor people in Africa. The analysis is based on a sample of 18,010 people living in 34 African countr...
Women's empowerment, modern energy, and demand for maternal health services in Benin [0.03%]
妇女赋权，现代能源与贝宁对产妇保健服务的需求
Alastaire Sèna Alinsato,Calixe Bidossessi Alakonon,Nassibou Bassongui
Alastaire Sèna Alinsato
One of the major concerns for developing countries is improving the use of health services by the general population, and in particular, maternal and child health services. This concern reflects the Sustainable Development Goals 3, which ai...
Measuring household vulnerability to medical expenditure shock: method and its empirical application [0.03%]
家庭医疗支出冲击脆弱性的测量：方法及其应用
Lei He,Shuyi Zhou
Lei He
To investigate household vulnerability for inability to cope with medical expenditure shock, we propose a method of measuring household vulnerability to medical expenditure shock by allowing for the heteroscedasticity and dependence of medi...
Education and reproductive health: evidence from schooling expansion in Turkey [0.03%]
教育与生殖健康：来自土耳其扩大教育的证据
Prabal K De,Muhammed Tümay
Prabal K De
We investigate the role of additional years of schooling mandated by a compulsory schooling expansion law in affecting reproductive preferences and safe reproductive health behaviors in Turkey-a middle-to-high-income country with gender ine...
Has pharmaceutical innovation reduced the average cost of U.S. health care episodes? [0.03%]
药物创新降低美国医疗费用了吗？
Frank R Lichtenberg
Frank R Lichtenberg
A number of authors have argued that technological innovation has increased U.S. health care spending. We investigate the impact that pharmaceutical innovation had on the average cost of U.S. health care episodes during the period 2000-2014...
Out-of-pocket expenditure, need, utilisation, and private health insurance in the Australian healthcare system [0.03%]
澳大利亚医疗卫生体系中的自付费用、需求、利用和私人健康保险
Timothy Ludlow,Jonas Fooken,Christiern Rose et al.
Timothy Ludlow et al.
Despite widespread public service provision, public funding, and private health insurance (PHI), 20% of all healthcare expenditure across the OECD is covered by out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE). This creates an equity concern for the increa...
Mônica Viegas Andrade,Carolina Marinho,Letícia Nunes et al.
Mônica Viegas Andrade et al.
Brazil's private health insurance market is the second largest in the world, behind only the United States, making it a valuable source of real-world evidence. This paper documents how physicians' inpatient reimbursement fees vary in the co...
Income-related inequality in obesity and its determinants in Spain: What happens beyond the obesity threshold? [0.03%]
西班牙与收入相关的肥胖不平等及其决定因素：超出肥胖阈值会发生什么？
Athina Raftopoulou,Joan Gil Trasfi
Athina Raftopoulou
This paper computes and decomposes income-related inequalities in three metrics of obesity, namely, status, depth and severity, for Spain, a European country characterized by a universal health care system with very high and rising obesity ...
Matching patients with therapists in culturally diverse rehabilitation services during civil unrest [0.03%]
动荡时期康复服务中患者与治疗师的匹配：多元文化的影响
Stuart B Kamenetsky,Vanessa Chen,Eyal Heled
Stuart B Kamenetsky
A primary consideration in rehabilitation is the compatibility between clinicians and patients, where cultural diversity is a defining feature for both. The intricacies of cultural considerations in patient-clinician matching are heightened...