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The health decision-making process subsidized by cost information

open access: yesO Mundo da Saúde, 2011
Companies daily face decision-making problems that directly threaten their business continuity. A decision analysis comprises using different summary and modeling concepts and techniques towards a better quality in the decision-making process.
Ana Cristina Pereira   +1 more
doaj  

Rationing in healthcare—a scoping review

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
Healthcare rationing has been the subject of numerous debates and concerns in the field of health economics in recent years. It is a concept which refers to the allocation of scarce healthcare resources and involves the use of different approaches to the
Jakub Berezowski   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Overview of the Nonprofit and Charitable Sector [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
[Excerpt] A number of policy issues have direct or indirect consequences for the nonprofit and charitable sector, including the establishment of a social innovation initiative, changes in the tax treatment of charitable donations, responses to the ...
Gravelle, Jane G, Sherlock, Molly F
core   +1 more source

Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
wiley   +1 more source

Macroeconomic trends and practice models impacting acute care surgery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Acute care surgery (ACS) diagnoses are responsible for approximately a quarter of the costs of inpatient care in the US government, and individuals will be responsible for a larger share of the costs of this healthcare as the population ages.
Bernard, Andrew   +6 more
core   +3 more sources

Essays on Industrial Organization and Health Care Economics

open access: yes, 2017
A central tenet of industrial organization is that market concentration leads to higher prices. At the same time, there is a growing awareness that the market for health care is unique due to its complexity, and it is often difficult for consumers to make fully informed decisions.
openaire   +2 more sources

Accounting for Substitution: Improving Estimates of GHG Reductions From Cattle‐Based Product Demand Shifts

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Estimates of reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from lower demand for cattle‐based products must account for substitution effects. This study collected data through two surveys—one on ground beef and another on dairy milk—to evaluate substitution effects and potential GHG reductions.
Brandon R. McFadden   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hospitalization due to pneumococcal disease in the Unified Health System in Brazil: A retrospective analysis of administrative data

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Introduction: Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) caused by pneumococcus and Invasive Pneumococcal Disease (IPD) pose a substantial economic burden on health systems.
Daniela V. Pachito   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Navigating stormy waters in times of fiscal uncertainty: mitigating the challenges [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
New approaches to resource allocation are providing healthcare managers with ways to meet budget pressures while maximizing benefit to patients and populations.
Dionne, Francois   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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