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- January 1982
- Background Note
Proprietary Hospital Industry, Background Note
- 1979
- Chapter
Preventive Health Care and Consumer Behavior: Towards a Broader Perspective
By: J. Quelch and S. Ash
- April 1978 (Revised May 1993)
- Teaching Note
Child Care Task Force, Teaching Note
- January 1978
- Case
Zero-Base Budgeting in the Public Health Service
- Article
Physician-Induced Demand for Medical Care
By: Jerry R. Green
This paper addresses the theoretical models designed to ascertain the existence of a variable level of physicians' activity in shifting the demand of their patients. Two basic approaches are followed: equilibrium models of the demand for health care, and disequilibrium... View Details
- September 1976 (Revised October 1991)
- Case
Salem Hospital
- March 1976
- Teaching Note
King Community Hospital, Teaching Note
- October 1975 (Revised May 1993)
- Teaching Note
New Hampshire-Vermont Hospitalization Service, Teaching Note
- August 1975 (Revised August 1991)
- Case
University Hospital
- July 1972 (Revised November 1980)
- Case
Richardson Center for the Blind
- Article
The Efficacy of a Comprehensive Health Project: An Empirical Analysis
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Lester Lave and Samuel Leinhardt
- Research Summary
AIDS in Africa: Life, Death and Property Rights
By: Debora L. Spar
In the final years of the twentieth century, the world was hit by a plague of epidemic proportions--the plague of AIDS, a life-threatening disease that remained stubbornly immune to any cure or vaccine. In the developed nations of the West, AIDS was slowly brought... View Details
- Research Summary
Behavioral Hazard and Public Policy
It is well recognized that people overuse low-value medical care due to moral hazard—because copays are lower than costs. Now Professor Schwartzstein has introduced the concept of “behavioral hazard” to explain the opposite: people underuse high-value care because... View Details
- Research Summary
Consumer-Driven Health Care
Since 1999, Professor Herzlinger's work in this area has provided the major impetus for the transformation of the health care sector: first in new consumer-driven insurance products sold by established insurers such as Aetna, United and CIGNA, as well as... View Details
- Research Summary
Consumerism and the Distributed Delivery of Health Care
This stream of Professor Huckman's work examines the growing tendency for health care to be delivered in a more distributed manner. Examples of this phenomenon include health IT, teleradiology, medical travel, remote monitoring of chronic medical conditions, and retail... View Details
- Research Summary
Cost Management and Management Control Systems in Hospitals
By: V.G. Narayanan
Hospitals tend not to have very good cost accounting and control systems. More broadly, there is enormous opportunity for managing costs and aligning incentives in the health care industry. I am studying how cost accounting methods can be used to... View Details