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Quality competition for screening and treatment services

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dc.contributor.coauthorChick, Stephen E.
dc.contributor.coauthorVan Wassenhove, Luk N.
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Business Administration
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Business Administration
dc.contributor.kuauthorGüneş, Evrim Didem
dc.contributor.kuprofileFaculty Member
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Administrative Sciences and Economics
dc.contributor.yokid51391
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T23:07:19Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines how quality for one type of preventive health care services, screening services are determined under competition and explores its links with the treatment services. A Hotelling type of model is introduced for this purpose. Two providers offer both screening and treatment services, and decide on their quality for both services. The equilibrium quality values are characterized assuming providers are identical and patients are free to choose providers for screening and treatment independently. Screening quality and treatment quality are shown to be strategic complements. The social planner can achieve the desired quality level via appropriate reimbursements for screening and treatment of the disease at early and late stage. A sensitivity analysis investigates the effect of model parameters on the equilibrium quality levels.
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dc.description.indexedbyScopus
dc.description.issue1
dc.description.openaccessNO
dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsorshipINSEAD's Research and Development fund We would like to thank Tolga Yuret for his comments on technical development of the model, and Zeynep Aksin for her comments on the first draft of the paper. We also appreciate the feedback of one of the anonymous referees which improved the presentation of the paper, and we acknowledge the support of INSEAD's Research and Development fund.
dc.description.volume178
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10479-009-0645-x
dc.identifier.eissn1572-9338
dc.identifier.issn0254-5330
dc.identifier.quartileQ2
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-77954035301
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-009-0645-x
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/9124
dc.identifier.wos279024400013
dc.keywordsPreventive health care
dc.keywordsQuality
dc.keywordsBreast cancer
dc.keywordsCompetition
dc.keywordsHotelling model
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.sourceAnnals of Operations Research
dc.subjectOperations research
dc.subjectManagement science
dc.titleQuality competition for screening and treatment services
dc.typeJournal Article
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local.contributor.kuauthorGüneş, Evrim Didem
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