'Free choice of hospital may reinforce social differences'
People with higher education and people who live in areas with a low mortality rate are overrepresented among users of the free choice of hospital system.
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Giant hospitals neither cheaper nor better
Resource-intensive mergers in the hospital sector are based on a desire for better and cheaper hospitals, but when the positive effects cannot be documented, it is about time we showed less enthusiasm for such mergers, according to NHH professor Kurt R Brekke.
Scarred by unemployment
A new study carried out at NHH finds that unemployment has disturbing long term negative effects. Young people who have been unemployed are scarred by the experience. The younger they are, the more likely they are to be jobless later in life. Some of them drop out of the labour market for good.
When children start school is not important
Should we let children stay children for as long as possible, or is an early school start important to prepare children for life in a knowledge-based society?
No price competition in pharmaceuticals
The law regulating pharmacies should secure users cheaper medicines. However, the market is controlled by three dominant pharmacy chains, leading to restricted competition and preventing prices from falling.
Hospital managers afraid of losing their jobs
Department managers in Norwegian hospitals nowadays have to take care of both the financial aspect of running a hospital and the treatment of patients. NHH researcher Katarina Østergren is concerned with the strong emphasis on financial results.