Public Sector - Economics
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Quality of care in for-profit and not-for-profit nursing homes: systematic review and meta-analysis.

2 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: To compare quality of care in for-profit and not-for-profit nursing homes. DESIGN: Systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies and randomised controlled trials investigating quality of care in for-profit versus ... Read more...

Sustaining Medicare through consumer choice of health funds: lessons from the Netherlands.

4 Jul 2009 The current escalation in costs of Australia's health care system does not appear to be sustainable. Sustainable financing requires direct engagement of consumers - instead of the current political process driven by special interest groups, targeted ... Read more...

One-year assessment of joint procurement of pharmaceuticals in the public health sector in Jordan.

30 May 2009 BACKGROUND: About 10% of the gross domestic product in Jordan is spent on health care, and almost one third of that is spent on pharmaceuticals. The public health sector in Jordan has 4 main governmental parties that purchase medicines independently ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Public Sector - Economics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Incitament and bonus systems lead in the wrong direction] 30 Aug 2009
• Quality of care in for-profit and not-for-profit nursing homes: systematic review and meta-analysis. 2 Aug 2009
• Sustaining Medicare through consumer choice of health funds: lessons from the Netherlands. 4 Jul 2009
• One-year assessment of joint procurement of pharmaceuticals in the public health sector in Jordan. 30 May 2009
• Still strapped for cash. 30 May 2009
• Paying for obesity: a changing landscape. 30 May 2009
• Healthy competition--the why and how of "public-plan choice". 26 May 2009
• Outputs and cost of HIV prevention programmes for truck drivers in Andhra Pradesh, India. 19 May 2009
• Associations say no to industry funding. 11 May 2009
• Availability, price and affordability of asthma medicines in five Indian states. 29 Apr 2009
• Obama says more money. 28 Apr 2009
• The soft budget constraint syndrome in the hospital sector. 16 Apr 2009
• Performance of public and private plastic surgery practice in times of recession: a possible way to 'ride out the storm'. 30 Mar 2009
• The within-year concentration of medical care: implications for family out-of-pocket expenditure burdens. 29 Mar 2009
• Income of US veterinarians, 2007. 13 Mar 2009
• Public universities left reeling by recession. 3 Mar 2009
• Anti-diabetic drugs in the private and public sector in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 27 Feb 2009
• A lifeline for the biotech sector. 30 Jan 2009
• Redistribution or horizontal equity in Hong Kong's mixed public-private health system: a policy conundrum. 30 Dec 2008
• [Results of hypertensive treatment in outpatient hypertension clinics with different payment status] 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Public Sector'

Definition: The area of a nation's economy that is tax-supported and under government control.

Descriptor UI: D017150

Alternative terms: Public Sector; Public Sectors; Sector, Public; Sectors, Public; Public Enterprise; Enterprise, Public; Enterprises, Public; Public Enterprises; Public Domain; Domain, Public; Domains, Public; Public Domains;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; manpower;

Tree Number: I01.795; N04.452.633.890;

History Note: 93

Technical Notes: IM; specify nature of public endeavor (IM); specify geog if pertinent