A host of different factors affect health and longevity, ranging from genetic endowments to public policy. Physicians … styles of primary care physicians significantly affect the health outcomes of their patients. Using data on the population of … aspect of physicians' health management styles have important implications for patient outcomes and health care costs …

black veterans. The discrimination we observe is acute--we would not observe any racial mortality differences had physicians … not been racially biased in determining pension awards. The effect of income on health was indeed large enough to close … the black-white mortality gap in the period. Our work emphasizes that the large effects of physicians' attitudes on racial …

Primary care physicians (PCPs) provide frontline health care to patients in the U.S.; however, it is unclear how their … health care utilization by focusing on Medicare patients affected by PCP relocations or retirements, which we refer to as … results suggest that switching to higher-quality PCPs could significantly affect patients' longer-run health outcomes …

facing physicians …

estimate the effect of the reversal of such a medical study on physician choices and infant health outcomes. Using the United … disadvantaged groups. However, we do not find that such a change in practice had significant impacts on infant health. Contrary to … prior studies, we find that physicians updated their beliefs quickly, and do indeed adjust to new medical research …

trial of at-birth vitamin A supplementation in Bangladesh. Tornado exposure in utero and in infancy decreased birth size and … larger for boys. Our results suggest that wide-scale supplementation policies would generate potential health benefits in …

implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision …

fills approximately 20,000 jobs for new physicians in the United States. Because that market exhibits many complementarities …

This paper uses data from 802,777 veterans assigned to 7,548 primary care providers (PCPs) within the Veterans Health … Administration (VHA) to examine variations in the efficacy of primary care providers (PCPs), their consequences for health outcomes … dimensions: the probability their patients have subsequent hospitalizations or emergency department (ED) visits for mental health …

During the COVID-19 epidemic, many health professionals started using mass communication on social media to relay … critical information and persuade individuals to adopt preventative health behaviors. Our group of clinicians and nurses …