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Having to deal with periods from an early age, working out how not to get pregnant, how to get pregnant, how to give birth … But Dr Ian Banks, the head of the MHF, points out that: "Women have higher consultation rates for a wide range of illnesses, so the gender differences cannot be explained simply by their need for contraceptive and pregnancy care".
Similarly, migraine caused a higher consultation rate than tension-type headache in the general Danish population [21, 22].
The higher consultation rate may partly be explained by the fact that no psychotropic medications are available without prescription in Sweden.
The lower cost of medical prescriptions for Ho-GPs patients compared to CM-GPs patients (41.67 € vs 63.72 €) was offset by the higher consultation costs (27.08 € vs 22.68 € respectively).
Our empirical strategy is to exploit within GP variation in the fee schedule due to specialisation in general medicine that implies a higher consultation fee, and to use only a narrow time window around the date of the fee change to identify the GPs' supply responses.
Making use of detailed administrative claims data covering all GPs in Norway over a six-year period (2006-2011), we find that a higher consultation fee increases the number of visits (with an elasticity of 0.2), but reduces the treatment intensity per visit (and per patient).
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Similarly, the average time for second and higher consultations in the intervention arm compares favourably with the 20 minutes recommended in the WHO ANC model[ 18, 19].
The overall healthcare pattern before and after injury was similar for a majority of the cases, that is, high-frequent consulters preinjury also had high consultation frequency after the diagnosis of injury.
Finally, the NHI's payment schemes to doctors also increased the likelihoods of high consultation rates.
The high consultation rate was explained in part by health concerns relating to drug misuse.
UK and Denmark had relatively high consultation and drug treatment rates.
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