Jongsay Yong

Why greater private sector participation has not improved aged care performance

Ou Yang, Anthony Scott, Jongsay Yong, Yuting Zhang

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2021

For-profit age care facilities are the most expensive residential aged care option, but researchers have found that less-expensive..

Ownership, quality and prices of nursing homes in Australia: Why greater private sector participation did not improve performance

Jongsay Yong, Ou Yang, Yuting Zhang, Anthony Scott

Journal article  |  2021  |  HEALTH POLICY

OBJECTIVE: This study examines whether greater private-sector participation in aged care can lead to better outcomes by comparing ..

Nursing Home Competition, Prices, and Quality: A Scoping Review and Policy Lessons

Ou Yang, Jongsay Yong, Anthony Scott

Journal article  |  2021  |  GERONTOLOGIST

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In recent years, countries have increasingly relied on markets to improve efficiency, contain costs, an..

Does competition in aged care deliver better outcomes?

Ou Yang, Jongsay Yong, Yuting Zhang, Anthony Scott

Report  |  2021

Despite market reforms aimed at making Australian residential aged care more affordable and higher quality, competition in the mar..

Does socioeconomic status affect hospital utilization and health outcomes of chronic disease patients?

Jongsay Yong, Ou Yang

Journal article  |  2021  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS

This study quantifies the extent socioeconomic status (SES) affects hospital utilization and adverse hospital events of chronic di..

Competition, prices and quality of residential aged care in Australia

Ou Yang, Jongsay Yong, Yuting Zhang, Anthony Scott

Report  |  2021

We quantify competition in Australia's residential aged care sector and study how competition is associated with quality of care a..

Invasive Coronary Angiography after Chest Pain Presentations to Emergency Departments

Frank M Sanfilippo, Graham S Hillis, Jamie M Rankin, Donald Latchem, Carl J Schultz, Jongsay Yong, Ian W Li, Tom G Briffa

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

We investigated patients presenting to emergency departments (EDs) with chest pain to identify factors that influence the use of i..

The falling growth in the use of private hospitals in Australia

Tianshu Bai, Susan Mendez, Anthony Scott, Jongsay Yong

Report  |  2020

Australia has a rich public-private mix of financing and provision of healthcare. Since mid-2015, the higher growth in out of pock..

Private or Public? The declining growth in the use of private healthcare in Australia

Tianshu Bai, Susan Mendez, Anthony Scott, Jongsay Yong

Report  |  2020

The past five years has seen a steady decline in private health insurance (PHI) membership in Australia. With rising premium price..

An Examination of Public Hospital Productivity and its Persistence: An Index Number Approach

CC Cheng, A Scott, V Sundararajan, W Yan, J Yong

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Australian Economic Review

This paper measures the level and growth of total factor productivity (TFP) of public hospitals in Victoria, Australia, using an i..