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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"health care market"”.
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Competition Vs. Regulation in the Health Care Market: Approaches to Cost Containment
… regulatory strategies to cost containment in the health care market. It discusses the justifications for the use of these strategies and examines the effectiveness of each through case studies of health maintenance organization (HMOs) and diagnosis-related groups (DRGs). In addition, it considers …
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Costs of quality assurance in the German medical market.
… analysis of Quality Assurance in the German health care system. With the help of the study an estimate of the total costs in the German health care market shall be given. The focus of the analysis is on Companies, Political Bodies, Liberal Professions and Public Corporations which are part of …
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An Investigation of the Physician Search Process and Its Relationship to Perceived Illness Acuity (Health Care, Marketing)
… go through when locating a physician can help health-care professionals better understand the information needs of their patients. This understanding can help practitioners compete more successfully in the increasingly competitive health-care market. More importantly, it can help practitioners …
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Does health insurance matter for entrepreneurship?
We study the effect of improved access to health insurance on entrepreneurial rates across industries. We use the 2006 reform of the Massachusetts health care market as our shock. In contrast to previous research, we use our shock to test which kinds of startups were more likely to be created in …
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The role of competition law to facilitate the achievement of competitive outcomes in the healthcare sector
… which set out to safeguard and sustain a market where fair, yet vigorous, competition will result in the most effective allocation of economic resources and in the production of goods and services at the lowest price. Competition law is thereby designed to create a parallel playing field …
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Four Essays on Technological and Organizational Change in Health Care
… on technological and organizational change in health care. Although each chapter can be read independently, there is a central thread resumed in each chapter. The interaction of patient, physician and insurer in the health care market is analysed in different contexts. Chapter 2 studies the …
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Selling wellness : the cultural politics of holistic health in the U.S.
Currently, holistic health and lifestyle medicine are growing sectors of the U.S. health care market (Fadlon 2005). The term "holistic" entered the U.S. medical discourse in the 1970s and refers to the treatment of the whole person as opposed to the biomedical treatment of the medical condition …
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Pharmaceutical relationships : intersections of illness, fantasy, and capital in the age of direct-to-consumer marketing
… dissertation is a multi-sited ethnography among marketers, consumer-patients and psychiatrists in the U.S. It explores the recent history of styles of pharmaceutical advertising that have come about in response to FDA regulations and ethical issues raised by patients and the press about how the …
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Money-Back Guarantee, Service Quality, and Productivity: The Marketing of In-Vitro Fertilization
Marketing practices like Money-Back Guarantees (MBGs) and warranties are quite controversial in the health care market. Despite their professed intention to improve consumer welfare, MBGs are often decried for taking advantage of consumers who might not have the correct information. This concern is …
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A Determination of the Association of Competition and Regulation With Hospital Strategic Orientation
… versus the effectiveness of regulation in the health care market has been called one of the Bellwether issues in health care policy, and the most controversial and far reaching philosophical battle facing the health care industry. Even after three decades of research and debate, there is still …
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The public-private mix health care resources distribution implications for equity : Kampala district, Uganda
… this has not been a subject of attention in the health care market. Following promotion of the public- private mix in the health care sector, there have been concerns that the pursuit of efficiency might compromise equity in accessing health care services. The main concern for this study was that …
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Essays on the impact of supply-side regulation in US health care markets
… regulations impact the supply side of the US health care market. In Chapter 1, I exploit the Medicare rural floor, a discontinuity in geographic adjustments to Medicare payments to hospitals, in a regression kink design to estimate the impact of Medicare reimbursement rate changes on the level …