We develop a model to analyze parallel public and private health-care financing under two alternative public sector rationing rules: needs-based rationing and random rationing. Individuals vary in income and severity of illness. There is a limited supply of health-care resources used to treat individuals, causing some individuals to go untreated. Insurers (both public and private) must bid to o...

Health systems across the United States have started their journeys toward population health management and the future of accountable care. Models of population health management include patient-centered medical homes and private sector accountable care organizations (ACOs). Other models include public sector efforts, such as Physician Group Practice Transition Demonstrations, Medicare Health C...

background: primary health care is the major infrastructure of health care systems. it is clear that making and improving primary health care information systems would not be possible without awareness of their condition. therefore, this comparative study was conducted in order to determine the situation of primary health care information systems in health centers of tehran, iran. methods: this...

Background: The voluntary sector has long been recognised as making an important contribution to individual and community health. In the UK, however, the links between primary health care services and the voluntary and community sector are often underdeveloped. Social prescribing is an innovative approach, which aims to promote the use of the voluntary sector within primary health care. Social ...

This article examines three problems burdening the Russian system of health care finance in transition period: (a) unrealistic government promise to cover health care coverage too wide to be achieved with available resources; (b) inefficient management of health care delivery systems; and (c) lack in evidence of actual positive changes effected by the new players: mandatory health insurance car...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects on immunization equity of the large-scale contracting of primary health-care services in rural areas of Cambodia. METHODS Data were obtained pre-intervention and post-intervention from a large-scale quasi-experiment in contracting with nongovernmental organizations to provide primary health care in nine rural districts of Cambodia between 1999 and mid-2001. Co...

introduction: hospitals performance indicators will help monitoring, evaluation and decision making and therefore must be selected and ranked accurately. the aim of present study is identifying and selecting key hospitals performance indicators. materials and methods: this is a descriptive and mixed (quantitative-qualitative) study. literature review and expert panel has been done to identify a...

BACKGROUND This paper combines the literature on public health, on economics of health and on economics of technological innovation to discuss the peculiarities of labour in the health care sector. METHOD AND FRAMEWORK: The starting point is the investigation of the economic peculiarities of medical care. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS This investigation leads to the identification of the prevalence...

. 12.00 background: most countries use educated nurses called “nurse practitioners” (nps) besides the family physicians for diagnosis, treatment, and specifically health education of the family. the main goal of this study was to redefine the role of nps for better use of their capabilities in the so-called “family physician reform” in iran. materials and methods: this is a qualitative and comp...

The health care sector is a huge industry in many Western countries going through fundamental changes, with increasing needs for new monitoring systems and performance indicators. The aim of this paper is to identify factors that influence the success of external reporting systems, which will ultimately affect the transparency and performance of the sector. We review theory on performance indic...