Although China's 2009 health-care reform has made impressive progress in expansion of
insurance coverage, much work remains to improve its wasteful health-care delivery …

China experienced both economic and epistemological transitions within the past few
decades, greatly increasing demand for accessible and affordable health care. These shifts …

The past two decades have seen a rapid increase in Private Equity (PE) investment in
healthcare, a sector in which intensive government subsidy and market frictions could lead …

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook,
providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory …

Background The International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium has found a high
ICU mortality rate. Our aim was to identify all-cause mortality risk factors in ICU-patients …

European countries have enhanced the scope of private provision within their health care
systems. Privatizing services have been suggested as a means to improve access, quality …

We conduct an audit study in which a pair of simulated patients with identical flu-like
complaints visits the same physician. Simulated patient A is instructed to ask a question that …

In the face of austerity, a series of disconnected “reforms” could, without corrective
measures, lead to the effective dismantling of large parts of the Spanish healthcare system …

The private for-profit sector's prominence in health-care delivery, and concern about its
failures to deliver social benefit, has driven a search for interventions to improve the sector's …

Given the preferential tax treatment afforded nonprofit firms, policymakers and researchers
have been interested in whether the nonprofit sector provides higher nursing home quality …