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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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The Quality of Health Care Providers

McClellan, Mark - 1999

Obtaining better information on the quality of health care providers is one of the most pressing issues in health policy today. In this paper we (1) develop a new method for measuring quality of care that overcomes the key limitations of available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to...

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The Impact of a Private Supplement to Public Health Care : The Mexico Diabetes Experiment

Bronsoler, Ari; Gruber, Jonathan; Seira, Enrique - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

investigate this issue in the context of one of the world's deadliest diseases, diabetes, and one of the countries with the worst …

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The Impact of Public Health Policy : The Case of Community Health Centers

Goldman, Fred - 1982

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the Community Health Center (CHC) on health levels in the U.S. Using infant mortality as the underlying health indicator, a time series of large counties as the data set, and multivariate regression techniques, we investigate the extent to which...

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Medicaid Physician Fees and Access to Care among Children with Special Health Care Needs

Chatterji, Pinka - 2020

The objective of this study is to use data from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS-CSHCN) to test whether Medicaid physician fees are correlated with access to health services and adequacy of insurance coverage among CSHCN. We use a difference-in-differences...

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Capacity Constraints and the Provision of Public Services : The Case of Workers in Public Health Clinics

Harris, Matthew C. - 2019

paper, we examine how public sector service providers respond to unexpected capacity constraints in the specific context of …

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Are Quality-Adjusted Medical Prices Declining for Chronic Disease? Evidence from Diabetes Care in Four Health Systems

Eggleston, Karen - 2019

Improvements in medical treatment have contributed to rising health spending. Yet there is relatively little evidence on whether the spending increase is "worth it" in the sense of producing better health outcomes of commensurate value--a critical question for understanding productivity in the...

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Does the Healthcare Educational Market Respond to Short-Run Local Demand?

Dillender, Marcus - 2019

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) increased demand for healthcare across the U.S., but it is unclear … geographical heterogeneity in the ACA to examine the healthcare education sector's response to increased demand for healthcare … in graduates and can rule out fairly modest effects. This implies that healthcare production may have adjusted to …

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A Machine Learning Approach to Low-Value Health Care : Wasted Tests, Missed Heart Attacks and Mis-Predictions

Mullainathan, Sendhil - 2019

We use machine learning to better characterize low-value health care and the decisions that produce it. We focus on costly tests, specifically for heart attack (acute coronary syndromes). A test is only useful if it yields new information, so efficient testing is grounded in accurate prediction...

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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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