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Private equity (PE) firms play an increasingly important role in healthcare. Yet, existing research remains uneven, mostly focused on the United States and on certain sectors such as nursing homes. Some geographical areas and health specialties remain under-explored. This brief paper outlines a research agenda focusing on three key issues: (1) PE's significance and (2) business strategies in healthcare, and (3) PE's impacts on health and healthcare. The paper uses primary care in Ireland as an example. The proposed research agenda should improve our understanding of the nature of PE in healthcare and serve as a basis for policy-makers to explore appropriate and effective regulation of PE to reduce its negative impacts if and when they exist.
私募股权投资（PE）公司在医疗保健领域发挥着越来越重要的作用。然而，现有的研究仍然参差不齐，主要集中在美国和某些行业，如养老院。一些地理区域和医疗专业领域的研究仍然不足。本文概述了研究议程，重点关注三个关键问题：(1) PE 的意义；(2) 医疗保健中的商业战略；(3) PE 对健康和医疗保健的影响。本文以爱尔兰的初级保健为例。拟议的研究议程应能增进我们对医疗保健领域 PE 性质的了解，并为政策制定者探索适当、有效的 PE 监管提供依据，以减少 PE 可能产生的负面影响。
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International trends highlight the confluence of economics, politics and legal considerations in the health policy process. Health Economics, Policy and Law serves as a forum for scholarship on health policy issues from these perspectives, and is of use to academics, policy makers and health care managers and professionals. HEPL is international in scope, publishes both theoretical and applied work, and contains articles on all aspects of health policy. Considerable emphasis is placed on rigorous conceptual development and analysis, and on the presentation of empirical evidence that is relevant to the policy process.
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