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Non-Covid Excess Deaths, 2020-21 : Collateral Damage of Policy Choices?
Mulligan, Casey B.; Arnott, Robert D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
,000 in excess of previous trends. Hypertension and heart disease deaths combined were elevated 32,000. Diabetes or obesity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334323
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Pricing Heart Attack Treatments
Cutler, David M. - 1999
In this paper, we estimate price indices for heart attack treatments, demonstrating the techniques that are currently used in official price indices and presenting some alternatives. We consider two types of price indices, a Service Price Index, which prices specific treatments provided, and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471708
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Top-up Design and Health Care Expenditure : Evidence from Cardiac Stents
Jin, Ginger Zhe - 2020
Since 2006, Taiwan's National Health Insurance (NHI) covers the full cost of baseline treatment in cardiac stents (bare-metal stents, BMS), but requires patients to pay the incremental cost of more expensive treatments (drug-eluting stents, DES). Within this "top-up" design, we study how...
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Intensive Medical Care and Cardiovascular Disease Disability Reductions
Cutler, David M. - 2006
paper, we explore the role of improved medical care for cardiovascular disease on health status improvements over time. We … show that the incidence of cardiovascular disease hospitalizations remained relatively constant between 1984 and 1999 at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466484
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The Costs and Benefits of Intensive Treatment for Cardiovascular Disease
Cutler, David - 1998
This paper examines the causes and consequences of reductions in cardiovascular disease mortality, and in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472290
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Treatment Decision-Making in Catastrophic Illness
Warner, Kenneth E. - 1976
It is well established that the social and economic environment of medical care distinguishes its provision from that of other goods and services. While scholars have studied the influences of this idiosyncratic environment, there is relatively little empirical knowledge about how it affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478990
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Recent Increases in Air Pollution : Evidence and Implications for Mortality
Clay, Karen - 2019
After declining by 24.2% from 2009 to 2016, annual average fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in the United States in counties with monitors increased by 5.5% between 2016 and 2018. Increases occurred in multiple census regions and in counties that were in and out of attainment with National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480326
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The Asset Cost of Poor health
Poterba, James M. - 2010
This paper examines the correlation between poor health and asset accumulation for households in the first nine waves of the Health and Retirement Survey. Rather than enumerating the specific costs of poor health, such as out of pocket medical expenses or lost earnings, we estimate how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462267
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Coping with Chronic Disease? Chronic Disease and Disability in Elderly American Population 1982-1999
Aranovich, Gabriel - 2009
disability occurred because of chronic disease prevention efforts among the elderly. For this purpose we analyze data from the …, as reflected in decreased disease prevalence, was not responsible for advances made in elderly functioning between 1980 … disease management. Instead, these measured improvements in functioning may reflect environmental, technological, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463836
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Estimating Marginal Returns to Medical Care : Evidence from At-Risk Newborns
Almond, Douglas - 2008
We estimate marginal returns to medical care for at-risk newborns by comparing health outcomes and medical treatment provision on either side of common risk classifications, most notably the "very low birth weight" threshold at 1500 grams. First, using data on the census of US births in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464125