The Strain Learning Curve – Does More Experience Lead to Better Concordance?

Does having more physicians lead to better health system performance?

THE US HEALTH SYSTEM FACES ONGOING CHALLENGES in addressing its shortcomings in access and quality. Against a foreground of uneven and fragmented care lies a bleak background of unrelentingly accelerating costs. Although the problems of quality and costs are long-standing, several organizations have recently asserted that there is a new impending health care “tragedy”: the physician workforce s...

Does Higher Inflation Lead to More Inflation Uncertainty? (The Case Of Iran)

Does Exporting Lead to Better Performance ?

Exporting involves sunk costs, so some firms export whilst others do not. This proposition derives from a number of models of firm behaviour and has been exposed to microeconometric analysis. Evidence from the latter suggests that exporting firms are generally more productive than non-exporters; they self-select in that they are more productive before they enter export markets; but entry does n...

Does scarcity lead to better integrated care?

Editorial Does scarcity lead to better integrated care? This is an attractive idea. The argument is that shortage of resources should motivate professionals to share these effectively, and this inevitably means integration. Examples include war leading to social cohesion in uniting against a common enemy. In World War II efficient use of scarce food resources through rationing led to improvemen...

Does More Education Always Lead to Better Health? Evidence from Rural Malaysia

Background. Education is usually associated with improvement in health; there is evidence that this may not be the case if education is not fully utilised at work. This study examines the relationship between education level, occupation, and health outcomes of individuals in rural Malaysia. Results. The study finds that the incidence of chronic diseases and high blood pressure are higher for te...