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Health Status, Health Care and Inequality : Canada vs. the U.S

O'Neill, June E. - 2007

Does Canada's publicly funded, single payer health care system deliver better health outcomes and distribute health resources more equitably than the multi-payer heavily private U.S. system? We show that the efficacy of health care systems cannot be usefully evaluated by comparisons of infant...

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How Spillovers from Appointment Reminders Improve Health Clinic Efficiency

Boone, Claire E. - 2020

Missed clinic appointments present a significant burden to health care through disruption of care, inefficient use of staff time and wasted clinical resources. Short message service (SMS) appointment reminders show promise to improve clinics' management through timely appointment cancellations...

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The Impact of Information Technology on Emergency Health Care Outcomes

Athey, Susan - 2000

This paper analyzes the productivity of technology and job design in emergency response systems, or 911 systems.' During the 1990s, many 911 systems adopted Enhanced 911' (E911), where information technology is used to link automatic caller identification to a database of address and location...

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The Impact of Healthcare IT on Clinical Quality, Productivity and Workers

Bronsoler, Ari; Doyle, Joseph J.; Van Reenen, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

that HICT improves clinical outcomes and lowers healthcare costs, but (i) the effects are modest so far, (ii) it takes time …, while healthcare is "exceptional" in many ways, we are struck by the similarities to the wider findings on ICT and …

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Health care issues in the United States and Japan

Wise, David A. (ed.); Yashiro, Naohiro (contributor) - 2006

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Healthcare Markets, the Safety Net and Access to Care Among the Uninsured

Escarce, Jose - 2004

sources to study the relationship between access to care among the uninsured and the local healthcare market and safety net … associated with utilization of a variety of healthcare services. In urban areas, we find that the capacity of the safety net and … the pervasiveness and competitiveness of managed care have a significant relationship with healthcare utilization. Our …

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The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances : The 20th Century United States

Cutler, David M. - 2004

Mortality rates in the US fell more rapidly during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries than any other period in American history. This decline coincided with an epidemiological transition and the disappearance of a mortality "penalty" associated with living in urban areas. There is little...

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The Impact of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage on Health Care Utilization and Health : Evidence from Medicare

Card, David - 2004

We use the increases in health insurance coverage at age 65 generated by the rules of the Medicare program to evaluate the effects of health insurance coverage on health related behaviors and outcomes. The rise in overall coverage at age 65 is accompanied by a narrowing of disparities across...

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Outcome Versus Service Based Payment in Health Care : Lessons from African Traditional Healers

Leonard, Kenneth - 2003

We compare the more common physician compensation method of fee-for-service to the less common payment-for-outcomes method. This paper combines an investigation of the theoretical properties of both of these payment regimes with a unique data set from rural Cameroon in which patients can choose...

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A Test of Supply-side Explanations of Geographic Variation in Health Care Use

Callison, Kevin - 2018

Evidence of regional variation in health care utilization has been well-documented over the past 40 years. Yet uncertainty persists about whether this variation is primarily the result of supply-side or demand-side forces, and the difference matters for both theory and policy. In this article,...

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