“...This paper examines the factors that may be responsible for the 50% increase in the number of obese adults in the US since the late 1970s. We employ the...”

“...In July 2002, a global budgeting system was imposed on hospitals in Taiwan. This system set a fixed budget for all hospitals within a region but included...”

“...Introduction Although pay for performance (P4P) programs are being increasingly used by state Medicaid programs to provide incentives for managed care plans to...”

“...We estimate the impacts of the introduction of National Health Insurance in Taiwan in March 1995 on infant survival. Prior to NHI, government workers (the...”

“...This paper compares program expenditure and treatment quality of stroke and cardiac patients between 1997 and 2000 across hospitals of various ownership types...”

“...Objective. To investigate whether provider volume has an impact on the hazard of mortality for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) patients in Taiwan. Data...”

“...Since 1992, the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) has published cardiac care report cards for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)...”

“...We investigate whether and how physicians' prescriptions of a new drug are influenced by their colleagues in the same hospital during shared working time. We...”

“...Theoretically, when asymmetric information exists, nonprofit organizations, due to the attenuation of the property right, provide better quality of service...”

“...This article examines whether market competition affects treatment expenditure and health outcomes of stroke and cardiac treatment in Taiwan. Our measure of...”