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The uptake of childhood immunization and financial incentives to general practitioners

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Among the target‐linked services introduced by the 1990 general practitioners' contract, childhood immunization in Scotland is the best suited for GPs to achieve the high target, given a centralized call and recall system and public confidence in the service. Yet over 25% of the practices in the area of the Greater Glasgow Health Board did not qualify for the high target payments in the last quarter of the 1991/92 financial year. Examining indicators of the socioeconomic characteristics of the patient population, practice profiles and the effect of financial incentives, we discuss the reasons for cross‐practice variation in the uptake of this service and estimate the probability of practices which missed the high target achieving it in the future.

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  • Mauricea Lima Lynch, 1994. "The uptake of childhood immunization and financial incentives to general practitioners," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 3(2), pages 117-125, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:hlthec:v:3:y:1994:i:2:p:117-125
    DOI: 10.1002/hec.4730030208
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    1. Silcock, Jonathan & Ratcliffe, Julie, 1996. "The 1990 GP contract -- meeting needs?," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 36(2), pages 199-207, May.

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