BMC Health Services ResearchBackground The private healthcare sector has become an essential component of healthcare systems globally. This interest has increased with the universal health coverage agenda.
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Private Health Insurance in Malaysia: Policy Options for a Public-Private Partnership [PDF]
Private health insurance has become important in the funding of healthcare in Malaysia. However, there have been rising concerns over the role of the private sector in healthcare financing because of illegitimate and unethical practices.
Daniel Ng Kok Eng +1 more
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Private hospital expansion in China: a global perspective
Global Health Journal, 2018 Objective: To assess the private hospital development in China during 2005-2016 from a global perspective.Methods: We searched the English and Chinese literature in PubMed, CNKI and Google Scholar databases with the keywords including “private hospitals ...
Chenhui Deng, Xiaosong Li, Jay Pan
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مدیریت اطلاعات سلامت, 2017 Introduction: Over the past several years, outsourcing services has received attention from managers in health sector in order to improve the quality of services and reduce costs; managers of the health information systems have also used outsourcing in ...
Maryam Jahanbakhsh +2 more
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The Effect of Unionism on Productivity in Privately and Publicly Owned Hospitals and Nursing Homes [PDF]
This paper examines the effect of unions on productivity within a sample of publicly and privately owned hospitals and nursing homes to determine whether public ownership influences union behavior.
Steven G. Allen
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Measuring Hospital Efficiency through Data Envelopment Analysis when Policy-makers’ Preferences Matter. An Application to a sample of Italian NHS hospitals [PDF]
In this paper we show how both the choice of specific constraints on input and output weights (in accordance with health care policy-makers’ preferences) and the consideration of exogenous variables outside the control of hospital management (and linked ...
Dino Rizzi, Vincenzo Rebba
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PUBLIC AND PRIVATE UTILISATION OF IN-PATIENT BEDS IN IRISH ACUTE PUBLIC HOSPITALS. ESRI Research Bulletin 2010/4/5 [PDF]
, 2010 Health care systems in many developed countries have services financed and provided by both public and private sectors. In Ireland, though, the public/private mix is atypical: a private patient can be treated in an acute public hospital and seen by a ...
O’Reilly, Jacqueline, Wiley, Miriam
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Keynesian hospitals? Public employment and political pressure [PDF]
This paper uses an unusual administrative dataset covering the universe of French hospitals to consider hospital employment: this is consistently higher in public hospitals than in Not-For-Profit or private hospitals, even controlling for many measures ...
Andrew E. Clark, Carine Milcent
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Explaining differences in hospital performance: Does the answer lie in the labour market? [PDF]
This paper examines the relationship between performance of English public sector hospitals (NHS trusts) and the quality of their nursing staff. Performance ratings of NHS trusts published in 2001 and 2002 indicate a clear regional divide. This divide is
Carol Propper +2 more
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Types of Organizational Culture in Private Jordanian Hospitals
International Review of Management and Marketing, 2017 Organizational culture (OC) is vital to an entity’s survival and success. This study explores preferred and dominant kinds of OC based on four types – (1) clans, (2) adhocracies, (3) markets, and (4) hierarchies – in private Jordanian hospitals that ...
Naser Ibrahim Saif
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