Analyzing the effect of health reforms on the efficiency of Ecuadorian public hospitalsInternational Journal of Health Economics and Management - Tập 23 - Trang 361-392 - 2023
Juan Piedra-Peña, Diego Prior
This study aims to assess whether Ecuadorian health reforms carried out since 2008 have affected the efficiency performance of public hospitals in the country. We contribute to the literature by shedding new light on the effects on public healthcare efficiency for developing countries when policies move toward health equity and universal coverage. We follow a two-stage approach, wherein the first ...... hiện toàn bộ
Quality of diabetes follow-up care and hospital admissionsInternational Journal of Health Economics and Management - Tập 18 - Trang 153-167 - 2017
L. F. Andrade, T. Rapp, C. Sevilla-Dedieu
Diabetes may lead to severe complications. For this reason, disease prevention and improvement of medical follow-up represent major public health issues. The aim of this study was to measure the impact of adherence to French follow-up guidelines on hospitalization of people with diabetes. We used insurance claims data from the years 2010 to 2013 collected for 52,027 people aged over 18, affiliated...... hiện toàn bộ
Drug innovation, price controls, and parallel tradeInternational Journal of Health Economics and Management - Tập 17 - Trang 159-179 - 2016
Giorgio Matteucci, Pierfrancesco Reverberi
We study the long-run welfare effects of parallel trade (PT) in pharmaceuticals. We develop a two-country model of PT with endogenous quality, where the pharmaceutical firm negotiates the price of the drug with the government in the foreign country. We show that, even though the foreign government does not consider global R&D costs, (the threat of) PT improves the quality of the drug as long as th...... hiện toàn bộ
Provider responses to discontinuous tariffs: evidence from Dutch rehabilitation careInternational Journal of Health Economics and Management - Tập 22 - Trang 333-354 - 2022
Katalin Gaspar, Xander Koolman
Abrupt jumps in reimbursement tariffs have been shown to lead to unintended effects in physicians’ behavior. A sudden change in tariffs at a pre-defined point in the treatment can incentivize health care providers to prolong treatment to reach the higher tariff, and then to discharge patients once the higher tariff is reached. The Dutch reimbursement schedule in hospital rehabilitation care follow...... hiện toàn bộ
Combined social and private health insurance versus catastrophic out of pocket payments for private hospital care in GreeceInternational Journal of Health Economics and Management - Tập 17 - Trang 261-287 - 2017
Nikolaos Grigorakis, Christos Floros, Haritini Tsangari, Evangelos Tsoukatos
The high level of out of pocket (OOP) payments constitutes a major concern for Greece and several other European and OECD countries as a result of the significant down turning of their public health finances due to the 2008 financial crisis. The basic objective of this study is to provide empirical evidence on the effect of combining social health insurance (SHI) and private health insurance (PHI)...... hiện toàn bộ
The distributive fairness of out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure in the Russian FederationInternational Journal of Health Economics and Management - Tập 20 - Trang 13-40 - 2019
Pavitra Paul
This article examines the effects of socioeconomic position and urban–rural settlement on the distribution of out-of-pocket expenditure (OPE) for health in the Russian Federation. Data comes from 2005 to 2016 waves of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. Concentration index reflects changes in the distribution of OPE between the worse-off and the better-off Russians over a 12-year period. F...... hiện toàn bộ