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Does medicaid coverage for pregnant women affect prenatal health behaviors?
Dave, Dhaval; Kaestner, Robert; Wehby, George - 2016
Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the Medicaid expansions of the 1980s and 1990s. In this paper, we provide the first national study of the effects of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452186
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Socialized healthcare and women's fertility decisions
Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pinar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; Ulker, … - 2019
This paper examines the effect of a nationwide healthcare reform implemented in Turkey on women's fertility decisions. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), introduced in 2005, provided a wide-range of primary healthcare services, free of charge, and achieved universal access by matching each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986012
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Losing insurance and behavioral health hospitalizations : evidence from a large-scale Medicaid disenrollment
Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Tello Trillo, Daniel S.; … - 2019
We study the effects of losing insurance on behavioral health - mental health and substance use disorder (SUD …) - community hospitalizations. We leverage variation in public insurance eligibility offered by a large-scale Medicaid … disenrollment. Losing insurance decreased SUD-related hospitalizations but mental illness hospitalizations were unchanged. Use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034281
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On a tendency in health economics to dwell on income inequality and underestimate social stress
Stark, Oded - 2023
Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have sought to identify and implement policies aimed at tackling this social ill. A frequently prescribed remedy is to reduce social stress by reducing income inequality, which is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278609
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Alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms : impacts on routine preventative health clinic visits in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard; De Walque, Damien; Kazianga, Harounan - 2012
We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530779
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Quality and quantity in primary care mixed payment models : evidence from family health organizations in Ontario
Kantarevic, Jasmin; Kralj, Boris - 2011
We study the impact of a mixed capitation model known as the Family Health Organization (FHO) on selected quality and quantity outcomes relative to an enhanced fee-for-service model known as the Family Health Group (FHG) among primary care physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307981
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A demographic dividend for Sub-Saharan Africa : source, magnitude, and realization
Bloom, David E.; Humair, Salal; Rosenberg, Larry; … - 2013
Managing rapid population growth and spurring economic growth are among the most pressing policy challenges for Sub-Saharan Africa. We discuss the links between them and investigate the potential of family planning programs to address these challenges. Specifically, we estimate the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229487
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Early retirement and post retirement health
Hallberg, Daniel; Johansson, Per-Olov; Josephson, Malin - 2014
This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369753
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The right to health and the health effects of denials
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021
have a constitutional right to health care, but insurance companies that manage delivery impose restrictions on access. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609195
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Unmet health care need and income-related horizontal equity in access during the COVID-19 pandemic
Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2020
Using monthly data from the Understanding Society (UKHLS) COVID-19 Survey we analyse the evolution of unmet need and assess how the UK health care system performed against the norm of horizontal equity in health care access during the first wave of COVID-19 wave. Unmet need was most evident for...
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