Over the years, Sri Lanka achieved excellent scores in health indicators relative to the national expenditure on health. However, due to several challenging situations such as the 2019 Easter bombings, COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis, there was a depletion of the GDP as well as rising...

Despite the controversy, states continue to implement Medicaid waivers which pair healthy behavior incentives with cost-sharing responsibilities. The empirical evidence, which has largely ignored implementation differences between states, has not found that these waivers increase healthy...

Background Poor oral health is associated with many chronic diseases, including diabetes. As diabetes can worsen oral health and vice versa, care guidelines recommend that patients with diabetes maintain good oral health and have regular dental checkups. We analyzed the impact of receiving an...

Along with the medical tourism industry, dental tourism has become a trending industry as many patients travel around the world to receive dental treatment. This research aims to analyze the level of international patient satisfaction with the dental tourism experience in Bangkok, and to...

The study examines the effect of a dental-care reform for children in Israel on the use of dental care and intra-household allocation of dental treatments. Using seven-year administrative panel data on patients' dental treatments at a large clinic in Jerusalem that serves one of the target...