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Physician dual practice: A review of literature
Karolina Socha,Mickael Bech +1 more
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This paper aims to review and critically discuss findings on the subject of dual practice effects for the public health care and investigates how the dual practitioners divide labour between the two jobs, and analyses the costs of enforcing restrictions on dual practice.About:
This article is published in Health Policy.The article was published on 2011-09-01. It has received 80 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Private practice & Systematic review.read more
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Evidence from facility level inputs to improve quality of care for maternal and newborn health: interventions and findings
TL;DR: There is dearth of evidence on the effectiveness of district level inputs to improve maternal newborn health outcomes, but user-directed financial schemes including maternal vouchers, user fee exemption and community based health insurance showed significant impact on maternal health service utilization.
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Financial arrangements for health systems in low‐income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
Charles Shey Wiysonge,Elizabeth J Paulsen,Simon Lewin,Agustín Ciapponi,Cristian A Herrera,Newton Opiyo,Tomas Pantoja,Gabriel Rada,Andrew D Oxman +8 more
TL;DR: Overall, there are important gaps in the availability of systematic reviews and primary studies for the all of the main categories of governance arrangements, but moderate‐ or high‐certainty evidence shows desirable effects (with no undesirable effects) for some interventions.
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Performance of private sector health care: implications for universal health coverage
TL;DR: The performance of the private sector seems to be intrinsically linked to the structure andperformance of the public sector, which suggests that deriving population benefit from the private health-care sector requires a regulatory response focused on the health- Care sector as a whole.
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Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: exploring dual practice and its management in Kampala, Uganda
TL;DR: The complex patterns that characterize the evolution of dual practice in Uganda are described and the local management practices that emerged in response are described, in five government facilities that have not been previously documented.
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Dual practice by doctors working in South and East Asia: a review of its origins, scope and impact, and the options for regulation
David B Hipgrave,Krishna Hort +1 more
TL;DR: This review focuses on dual practice in South and East Asia in the context of the rapidly expanding mixed health systems in this region, with concerns over growth of the private sector and weak regulation.
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TL;DR: The incidence of dental caries will increase in the near future in many developing countries of Africa, as a result of growing consumption of sugars and inadequate exposure to fluorides, and the risk of periodontal disease and tooth loss may increase.
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Reimbursing Health Plans and Health Providers: Efficiency in Production versus Selection
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that pure capitation payment leaves strong incentives for selection that are acted upon, and that the presence of contracting costs in a Rothschild-Stiglitz model means a limited pooling equilibrium can exist and that poor risks will not be at their preferred outcome.
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Creaming, skimping and dumping: provider competition on the intensive and extensive margins.
TL;DR: The social optimum is compared to the private Cournot-Nash solution for three provider strategies: creaming--over-provision of services to low severity patients; skimping--under-propared services to high severity Patients; and dumping--the explicit avoidance of high severity patients.
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Supply-side and demand-side cost sharing in health care.
TL;DR: This work reviews the rationale, limits, and comparative advantage of demand- and supply-side cost sharing in health care while primarily focusing on the short-run pursuit of consumer financial risk protection and efficiency.