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Medical interventions among pregnant women in fee-for-service and managed care insurance : a propensity score analysis
Turcotte, Leo (contributor); Robst, John (contributor);  … - 2005
We extend prior research on the effect of managed care on the receipt of four medical interventions for pregnant women: ultrasound, induction/stimulation of birth, electronic fetal monitor, and cesarean delivery. Propensity score methods are used to account for sample selection issues regarding...
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Re-examining supplier-induced demand in health care: comparisons among patients affiliated and not affiliated with healthcare professionals in China
Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Su, Min; Hu, Han; Yang, Zesen - 2020
Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. This study used coarsened exact matching to test the hypothesis of supplier-induced demand (SID) by comparing health care utilization and expenditures between patients affiliated with healthcare...
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Healthcare quality and dementia risk
Aravena, José M.; Chen, Xi; Levy, Becca R. - 2024
Low healthcare quality has been found to predict the development of several illnesses in older adults, while the evidence on dementia is still lacking. This study assesses whether and to what extent experiencing low healthcare quality can be associated with developing dementia in people...
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The value of socialized medicine : the impact of universal primary healthcare provision on birth and mortality rates in Turkey
Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pınar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; … - 2015
This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...
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The effects of a sick pay reform on absence and on health-related outcomes
Puhani, Patrick A.; Sonderhof, Katja - 2009
reform reduced the average number of days spent in hospital by almost half a day, but we cannot find robust evidence for … absence from work, we also consider effects on doctor/hospital visits and subjective health indicators. We also add to the … literature by estimating both switch-on and switch-off effects, because the reform was repealed two years later. We find a two …
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Geographic variation in inpatient care utilization, outcomes and costs for dementia patients in China
Lin, Zhuoer; Ba, Fang; Allore, Heather; Liu, Gordon G.; … - 2022
Dementia leads public health issue worldwide. China has the largest population of adults living with dementia in the world, imposing increasing burdens on the public health and healthcare systems. Despite improved access to health services, inadequate and uneven dementia management remains...
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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
wave of COVID-19 wave. Unmet need was most evident for hospital care, and less pronounced for primary health services …, there is no evidence that horizontal equity, with respect to income, was violated for NHS hospital outpatient and inpatient …
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An ounce of prevention for a pound of cure : efficiency of community-based healthcare
Antonella Bancalari, Antonella; Bernal, Pedro; Celhay, … - 2023
Salvador. Using a panel dataset of municipalities spanning 2009-2018 from consultation and hospital records of almost 4 million …
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Trust and health care-seeking behavior
Darden, Michael; Macis, Mario - 2024
We present results from a nationally representative survey of American adults, guided by a simple theoretical model expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust. We report several findings. First, we document a...
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Healthcare appointments as commitment devices
Derksen, Laura; Kerwin, Jason; Reynoso, Natalia Ordaz; … - 2024
We show that ordinary appointments can act as effective substitutes for hard commitment devices and increase demand for a critical healthcare service, particularly among those with self-control problems. We show this using an experiment that randomly offered HIV testing appointments and hard...
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