Geographic distribution of healthcare resources, healthcare service provision, and patient flow in Japan: A cross sectional study
Author
Abstract
Suggested Citation
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.07.032
Download full text from publisher
As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.
References listed on IDEAS
- Daniele Fabbri & Silvana Robone, 2010. "The geography of hospital admission in a national health service with patient choice," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 19(9), pages 1029-1047, September.
- Philip SEATON, 2010. "Depopulation and Financial Collapse in Yūbari: Market Forces, Administrative Folly, or a Warning to Others?," Social Science Japan Journal, University of Tokyo and Oxford University Press, vol. 13(2), pages 227-240.
- Kagamimori, Sadanobu & Gaina, Alexandru & Nasermoaddeli, Ali, 2009. "Socioeconomic status and health in the Japanese population," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 68(12), pages 2152-2160, June.
- Jan Blustein & William B Borden & Melissa Valentine, 2010. "Hospital Performance, the Local Economy, and the Local Workforce: Findings from a US National Longitudinal Study," PLOS Medicine, Public Library of Science, vol. 7(6), pages 1-12, June.
- Lovett, Andrew & Haynes, Robin & Sünnenberg, Gisela & Gale, Susan, 2002. "Car travel time and accessibility by bus to general practitioner services: a study using patient registers and GIS," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 55(1), pages 97-111, July.
Citations
Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
Cited by:
- Masayoshi Hayashi & Akiko Oyama, 2014.
"Factor Decomposition of Inter-prefectural Health Care Expenditure Disparities in Japan,"
CIRJE F-Series
CIRJE-F-948, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo.
- Masayoshi Hayashi & Akiko Oyama, 2014. "Factor decomposition of inter-prefectural health care expenditure disparities in Japan," Discussion papers ron264, Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance Japan.
- Jin, Tanhua & Cheng, Long & Wang, Kailai & Cao, Jun & Huang, Haosheng & Witlox, Frank, 2022. "Examining equity in accessibility to multi-tier healthcare services across different income households using estimated travel time," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 121(C), pages 1-13.
- Chih-Ching Yang, 2017. "Measuring health indicators and allocating health resources: a DEA-based approach," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 20(3), pages 365-378, September.
- Qin, Xuezheng & Hsieh, Chee-Ruey, 2014. "Economic growth and the geographic maldistribution of health care resources: Evidence from China, 1949-2010," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 31(C), pages 228-246.
- Sepideh Abolghasem & Mehdi Toloo & Santiago Amézquita, 2019. "Cross-efficiency evaluation in the presence of flexible measures with an application to healthcare systems," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 22(3), pages 512-533, September.
- Liu, Hu-Chen, 2013. "A theoretical framework for holistic hospital management in the Japanese healthcare context," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 113(1), pages 160-169.
- S. Balia & Rinaldo Brau & E. Marrocu, 2014. "Free patient mobility is not a free lunch. Lessons from a decentralised NHS," Working Paper CRENoS 201409, Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia.
- Emanuela Marrocu & Silvia Balia & Rinaldo Brau, 2016. "A spatial analysis of inter-regional patient mobility in Italy," ERSA conference papers ersa16p127, European Regional Science Association.
- Xing, Zhang & Oyama, Tatsuo, 2016. "Measuring the impact of Japanese local public hospital reform on national medical expenditure via panel data regression," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 113(PB), pages 460-467.
Most related items
These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.- Antonio Abatemarco & Massimo Aria & Sergio Beraldo & Michela Collaro, 2023.
"Measuring Access and Inequality of Access to Health Care: a Policy-Oriented Decomposition,"
CSEF Working Papers
666, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy.
- Abatemarco, Antonio & Aria, Massimo & Beraldo, Sergio & Collaro, Michela, 2023. "Measuring Access and Inequality of Access to Health Care: a Policy-oriented Decomposition," CELPE Discussion Papers 164, CELPE - CEnter for Labor and Political Economics, University of Salerno, Italy.
- Berta, Paolo & Guerriero, Carla & Levaggi, Rosella, 2021.
"Hospitals’ strategic behaviours and patient mobility: Evidence from Italy,"
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).
- Paolo Berta & Carla Guerriero & Rosella Levaggi, 2020. "Hospitals' Strategic Behaviours and Patient Mobility: Evidence from Italy," CSEF Working Papers 555, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy.
- Duncan Gillespie & Meredith Trotter & Shripad Tuljapurkar, 2014. "Divergence in Age Patterns of Mortality Change Drives International Divergence in Lifespan Inequality," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 51(3), pages 1003-1017, June.
- Daniel Oviedo & Luis A. Guzman, 2020. "Revisiting Accessibility in a Context of Sustainable Transport: Capabilities and Inequalities in Bogotá," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(11), pages 1-22, June.
- Lee, Hasik & Park, Ho-Chul & Kho, Seung-Young & Kim, Dong-Kyu, 2019. "Assessing transit competitiveness in Seoul considering actual transit travel times based on smart card data," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
- Jana, Arnab & Harata, Noboru, 2016. "Provisioning health care infrastructure in communities: Empirical evidences from West Bengal, India," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 54(C), pages 37-46.
- Kino, Shiho & Jang, Soong-nang & Takahashi, Shuko & Ebner, Daniel K. & Kawachi, Ichiro, 2020. "Socioeconomic disparities in self-rated health in two East Asian countries: Comparative study between Japan and Korea," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 253(C).
- Lippi Bruni, Matteo & Ugolini, Cristina & Verzulli, Rossella, 2021.
"Should I wait or should I go? Travelling versus waiting for better healthcare,"
Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).
- Matteo Lippi Bruni & Cristina Ugolini & Rossella Verzulli, 2021. "Should I wait or should I go? Travelling versus waiting for better healthcare," Working Papers wp1162, Dipartimento Scienze Economiche, Universita' di Bologna.
- Mavoa, Suzanne & Witten, Karen & McCreanor, Tim & O’Sullivan, David, 2012. "GIS based destination accessibility via public transit and walking in Auckland, New Zealand," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 20(1), pages 15-22.
- Takaku, Reo, 2020. "Reversal pattern of health inequality: New evidence from a large-scale national survey in Japan," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 124(11), pages 1254-1262.
- Sofia Amaral‐Garcia & Paola Bertoli & Veronica Grembi, 2015. "Does Experience Rating Improve Obstetric Practices? Evidence from Italy," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 24(9), pages 1050-1064, September.
- Elenka Brenna & Federico Spandonaro, 2014. "Does federalism induce patients’ mobility across regions? Evidence from the Italian experience," DISCE - Working Papers del Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza def009, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche (DISCE).
- Tasuku Okui, 2020. "Socioeconomic Disparities in All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Rates among Municipalities in Japan, 1999–2019," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(24), pages 1-11, December.
- Hiyoshi, Ayako & Fukuda, Yoshiharu & Shipley, Martin J. & Brunner, Eric J., 2014. "Health inequalities in Japan: The role of material, psychosocial, social relational and behavioural factors," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 201-209.
- Amaral-Garcia, Sofia & Grembi, Veronica, 2014. "Curb your premium: The impact of monitoring malpractice claims," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 114(2), pages 139-146.
- Fraszczyk, Anna & Mulley, Corinne, 2014. "GIS as a tool for selection of sample areas in a travel behaviour survey," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 34(C), pages 233-242.
- Rong Fu & Haruko Noguchi & Shuhei Kaneko & Akira Kawamura & Cheolmin Kang & Hideto Takahashi & Nanako Tamiya, 2019. "How do cardiovascular diseases harm labor force participation? Evidence of nationally representative survey data from Japan, a super-aged society," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(7), pages 1-16, July.
- Paolo Berta & Gianmaria Martini & Daniele Spinelli & Giorgio Vittadini, 2022. "The beaten paths effect on patient inter‐regional mobility: An application to the Italian NHS," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 101(4), pages 945-977, August.
- Felipa De Mello-Sampayo, 2016. "A Spatial Analysis of Mental Healthcare in Texas," Spatial Economic Analysis, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(2), pages 152-175, June.
- Randall S. Jones & Kohei Fukawa, 2017. "Ensuring Fiscal Sustainability in Japan in the Context of a Shrinking and Ageing Population," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1413, OECD Publishing.
More about this item
Keywords
Japan; Resource allocation; Healthcare policy; Health resources; Patient flow;All these keywords.
Statistics
Access and download statisticsCorrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:75:y:2012:i:11:p:1954-1963. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/315/description#description .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.