Pushing on a string: How policy might encourage private doctors to compete with the public sector on the basis of quality

Stella Luz Quimbo (), John W. Peabody, Xylee Javier, Riti Shimkhada and Orville Jose Solon ()

Economics Letters, 2011, vol. 110, issue 2, 101-103

Abstract: Results from the Philippine Quality Improvement Demonstration Study show that a policy that expands insurance coverage improves quality of care, as measured by clinical performance vignettes, among public physicians, and induces a spillover effect that improves quality among private physicians.

Keywords: Quality; of; care; Health; care; markets; International; health; Public-private; competition; Health; policy; Spillover; effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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