Program Design, Incentives, and Response: Evidence from Educational Interventions

Regional Incentives and Patient Cross-Border Mobility: Evidence from the Italian Experience

Background In recent years, accreditation of private hospitals followed by decentralisation of the Italian National Health Service (NHS) into 21 regional health systems has provided a good empirical ground for investigating the Tiebout principle of “voting with their feet”. We examine the infra-regional trade-off between greater patient choice (due to an increase in hospital services supply) an...

Interventions and Conflict Incentives

Design and Implementation of Educational Interventions to Empower Female Students to Prevent Osteoporosis

Introduction: Osteoporosis is a chronic disease which influences the life of people considerably, especially the women. Most women are not aware that osteoporosis is preventable. Although there is a higher risk of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women, but bone loss can begin at the age of 35. This research was conducted to design and implement educational interventions to empower female student...

Design for MOSIS Educational Program (Research)

Impact of a smoking cessation educational program on nurses' interventions.

PURPOSE To evaluate a brief educational program about smoking cessation on the frequency of nurses' interventions with smokers, and impact of nurses' smoking status on outcomes. DESIGN Prospective, single group design with prestudy and 3 months post-study data. METHODS Nurses in the Czech Republic attended hospital-based 1-hr educational programs about helping smokers quit. They completed s...