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Doctors' and Nurses' Social Media Ads Reduced Holiday Travel and COVID-19 Infections : A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
Breza, Emily; Stanford, Fatima Cody; Alsan, Marcella; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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 developed and recorded short video messages to encourage...
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Using Audit Studies to Test for Physician Induced Demand : The Case of Antibiotic Abuse in China
Currie, Janet - 2012
patients actively demanding antibiotics, by physicians believing that patients want antibiotics, or by physicians believing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460492
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Innovation and Health Disparities During an Epidemic : The Case of HIV
Hamilton, Barton Hughes; Hincapié, Andrés; Kalish, Emma C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine whether medical innovation can reinforce existing health disparities by disproportionately benefiting socioeconomically advantaged patients. The reason is that less advantaged patients often do not use new medications. This may be due to high costs of new drugs, but could also reflect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533413
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Coordination, Switching Costs and the Division of Labor in General Medicine : An Economic Explanation for the Emergence of Hospitalists in the United States
Meltzer, David O. - 2010
General medical care in the United States has historically been provided by physicians who care for their patients in … both ambulatory and hospital settings. Care is now increasingly divided between physicians specializing in hospital care … (hospitalists) and ambulatory-based care primary care physicians. We develop and find strong empirical support for a theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462612
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Owning the Agent : Hospital Influence on Physician Behaviors
Lin, Haizhen; McCarthy, Ian M.; Richards, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
physicians now employed by hospitals. This trend toward increasing vertical alignment between physicians and hospitals may alter … physician behavior relative to physicians remaining in independent or group practices. We examine the effects of such vertical … increase in billable activity among other integrated physicians alongside a large decrease in activity among non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533408
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Geographic Variation in Healthcare Utilization : The Role of Physicians
Badinski, Ivan; Finkelstein, Amy; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the role of physicians in driving geographic variation of US healthcare utilization. We estimate a model that … separates variation in average utilization of Medicare beneficiaries due to physicians, non-physician supply side factors, and … patient demand. The model is identified by migration of patients and physicians across areas, as well as by variation in …
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Building Resilient Health Systems : Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone and the 2014 Ebola Outbreak
Christensen, Darin - 2020
Underuse of health systems and a lack of confidence in their quality contribute to high rates of mortality in the developing world. How individuals perceive health systems may be especially critical during epidemics, when they choose whether to cooperate with response efforts and frontline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481559
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Health vs. Wealth? Public Health Policies and the Economy During Covid-19
Lin, Zhixian - 2020
We study the impact of non-pharmaceutical policy interventions (NPIs) like "stay-at-home" orders on the spread of infectious disease. Local policies have little impact on the economy nor on local public health. Stay-at-home is only weakly associated with slower growth of Covid-19 cases....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481683
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When Does Improving Health Raise GDP?
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2008
We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous health improvements on output per capita. Our simulation model allows for a direct effect of health on worker productivity, as well as indirect effects that run through schooling, the size and age-structure of the population, capital accumulation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464198
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The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime : A Review of Economic Studies
Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Mallatt, Justine; Ruhm, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Opioid use is one of the most substantial and long-lasting public health crises faced by the United States. This crisis, which began by the mid-1990s and continues through the time of writing, causes 136 fatal opioid overdoses each day and costs the U.S. at least $596 billion each year. These...
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