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Spatial Disparities in Hospital Performance Using a French exhaustive dataset, this paper studies the determinants of regional disparities in mortality for patients admitted to hospitals for a heart attack. These disparities are large, with an 80% difference in the propensity to die within 15 days between extreme regions. They may reflect spatial differences in patient characteristics, treatmen...

A by now large literature in regional economics has greatly improved our understanding of the determinants of the observed spatial disparities in productivity. However, this literature neglects what seems to be a robust and persistent fact accompanying regional productivity differences: high productivity regions also have lower unemployment than low productivity regions. In this paper, we set o...

Indian economy has been experiencing an average annual rate of growth of around 6 per cent since the early 1980s. Though, moderate compared to the performance of several east Asian economies during the same period, this was quite impressive compared to the performance of Indian economy during the preceding three decades when the average growth logged 3.5 per cent per annum. In terms of per capi...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To review regional findings about cancer disparities with grass roots community leaders in Appalachia and to identify perspectives about what makes the cancer experience unique in Appalachia. RESEARCH APPROACH A community-based participatory approach that includes focus-group methodology. SETTING Work groups gathered in well-known community locations in northeastern Tenne...

While regional mortality inequalities in Germany tend to be relatively stable in the short run, over the course of the past century marked changes have occurred in the country’s regional mortality patterns. These changes include not only the re-emergence of stark differences between eastern and western Germany after 1970, which have almost disappeared again in the decades after the reunificatio...

The issues of disparities, regional imbalance development and attempt to reducing development disparities among various regions have been attracted considerable attention among researchers, planners and policy makers. In this regard, this study employs a mathematical programing model for budget resources allocation among Iran provinces in order to development disparities reduction among them. I...

In assessing tax decentralization optimality, a dilemma between efficiency and redistribution emerges: enhances fiscal discipline, but may also widen interregional disparities by triggering competition over mobile bases. We present model that formalizes this trade-off, find can be optimal even under Rawlsian social preferences which only weight the welfare of poorest region in economy. revisit ...

BACKGROUND This study aims to examine the localisation of selected parameters in the deployment and use of medical equipment in the Slovak Republic and to verify potential regional disparities. The study evaluates the benefits of an analytical platform for regulatory mechanisms in the healthcare system. METHODS The correspondence analysis is applied to the entire data set containing informati...