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Measuring inequalities in health: What do we know? What do we need to know?
21 May 2012
Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Hernández-Quevedo
Abstract: We argue that policy analysis aiming at curving inequalities in health calls for a better understanding of what we know about its measurement pathways. Assuming that health is a good that in...
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Physician density in a two-tiered health care system
21 May 2012
Martin Gächter, Peter Schwazer, Hannes Winner
Abstract: We investigate the density of non-contract (private) physicians in a two-tiered health care system, i.e., one with co-existing public and private health care providers. In particular, we ana...
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Calculating an intervention's (cost-)effectiveness for the real-world target population: The potential of combining strengths of both RCTs and observational data
18 May 2012
Mattias Neyt, Irina Cleemput, Nancy Thiry, Chris De Laet
Abstract: Economic evaluations most often use results from randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to model effectiveness. Inconsiderate application of the absolute treatment effect from RCTs may result i...
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Predicting the place of out-of-hours care—A market simulation based on discrete choice analysis
17 May 2012
Hilde Philips, Dominik Mahr, Roy Remmen, Marcel Weverbergh, Diana De Graeve, Paul Van Royen
Abstract: Background: Increasing cost pressure and changing patients’ needs in the healthcare sector have led to new delivery models for primary care. Researchers and practitioners need to establish i...
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Association between family doctors’ practices characteristics and patient evaluation of care
14 May 2012
Zalika Klemenc-Ketis, Davorina Petek, Janko Kersnik
Abstract: Background: Patients’ evaluations of primary care are influenced by three major dimensions: patients’, family doctors’ and practices’ characteristics. A lot of primary care practices use pos...
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