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Essays on health economics
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This thesis provides a set of Health Economics Essays on the efficiency of health care provision and financing, with micro and macroeconomic perspectives. Chapter 1 investigates how hospitals react to a sudden change in their inputs, looking at the specific case of health professionals’ strikes. Chapter 2 investigates pricing decisions of pharmaceutical firms following a change in the reference price system. Chapter 3 provides three macro
applications on public health spending efficiency; on the relation between efficiency and HR skill-mix; and on the sustainability of the Portuguese NHS. Chapter 4 introduces a model to analyse public health spending sustainability.
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Health professionals’ strikes Reference price systems Public health spending efficiency Public health spending sustainability