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Rationing by waiting lists: an empirical investigation
Stephen Martin,Peter C. Smith +1 more
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In this paper, a model of the waiting list for elective surgery in the British National Health Service is presented, where waiting time is allowed to influence both supply of and demand for surgery.About:
This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 1999-01-01. It has received 216 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Rationing & Price elasticity of demand.read more
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Equity of access to health care services: theory and evidence from the UK.
Maria Goddard,Peter C. Smith +1 more
TL;DR: There appear to be important inequities in access to some types of health care in the UK, but that the evidence is often methodologically inadequate, making it difficult to draw firm conclusions.
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Handbook of Health Economics
TL;DR: The book focuses on the US literature and health care system with 24 chapters written by US authors and only 11 by European and Canadian authors, and the structure both reflects the contributions in the health economics literature and the large variation in US health care institutions.
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Tackling excessive waiting times for elective surgery: a comparative analysis of policies in 12 OECD countries.
Luigi Siciliani,Jeremy Hurst +1 more
TL;DR: It is found that waiting times may be reduced by acting on the supply of or on the demand for surgery (or both), and preliminary evidence suggests that an increase in private health insurance coverage may reduce waiting times.
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A neo-Schumpeterian model of health services innovation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present and empirically apply a neo-Schumpeterian model of innovation capable of studying interactions between service providers, patients and policy makers, and how these complex interactions determine the timing, direction, and success of innovations in the public sector.
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The demand for private health care in the UK.
TL;DR: The results indicate a difference between users of private care and other care, and the importance of past use as a predictor of current use, but they also show considerable movement between the public and private sectors, indicating a complex relationship in public andPrivate sector use.
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Misspecification Tests in Econometrics: The Lagrange Multiplier Principle and Other Approaches
TL;DR: In this article, the main emphasis is on the Lagrange multiplier principle, which provides considerable unification, although several other approaches are also considered, including general checks for model adequacy that do not involve formulation of an alternative hypothesis.
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Misspecification tests in econometrics
TL;DR: In this article, the main emphasis is on the Lagrange multiplier principle, which provides considerable unification, although several other approaches are also considered, including general checks for model adequacy that do not involve formulation of an alternative hypothesis.
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Geographical and environmental epidemiology : methods for small-area studies
TL;DR: Part 1 Introduction: geographihcal epidemiology and ecological studies small-area studies - purpose and methods health and the environment - the significance of chemicals and radiation.
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The demand for private health insurance: do waiting lists matter?
TL;DR: It is shown that longer waiting lists for NHS treatment are associated with greater purchases of private health insurance, and the National Health Service fails to drive out the private sector.