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The abolition of user charges and the demand for ambulatory visits: evidence from the Czech Republic

This paper estimates the effect of the abolition of user charges for children’s outpatient care (30 CZK/1.2 EUR) in 2009 on the demand for ambulatory doctor visits in the Czech Republic. Because the reform applied only to children, we can employ the difference-in-differences approach, where children...

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Autores principales: Votapkova, Jana, Zilova, Pavlina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4947065/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27422120
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13561-016-0105-7