health improvements, which we estimate at 1.82 years of quality-adjusted life. However, these were roughly offset by … health by way of behavioral improvements and public health are possible …

Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti …

Poverty is strongly associated with worse health across countries and within countries across individuals. However, not … all poor individuals suffer from poor health: the effects of poverty on health vary across place and time. In this review … what is known about policies that may improve the health of the poor. We focus primarily on the modern-day United States …

In 2006, Massachusetts passed health care reform legislation designed to achieve nearly universal coverage through a … from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we provide evidence that health care reform in Massachusetts led to … better overall self-assessed health. Various robustness checks and placebo tests support a causal interpretation of the …

Many goods and services can be readily provided through a series of unconnected transactions, but in health care close … coordination over time and within care episodes improves both health outcomes and efficiency. Close coordination is problematic in … the US health care system because the financing and delivery of care is distributed across a variety of distinct and often …

This paper provides a broad and general overview of the relationship between the U.S. health care system and the labor … market. The paper first describes some of the salient features of and facts about the system of health insurance coverage in … the U.S., particularly the role of employers. It then summarizes the empirical evidence on how health insurance impacts …

HIV/AIDS has been one of the largest public health crises in recent history, and the U.S. federal government has spent …

The Affordable Care Act Marketplaces were introduced in 2014 as part of a reform of the U.S. individual health …