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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 … physician, who offers a wide range of primary healthcare services that are free-of-charge. Furthermore, these services are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337077
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Health insurance expansions and provider behavior : evidence from substance use disorder providers
Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Popovici, Ioana; Stern, … - 2017
markets, are less likely to provide charity care, increase the quantity of healthcare provided, and become more selective of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596165
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Losing insurance and behavioral health hospitalizations : evidence from a large-scale Medicaid disenrollment
Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Webber, Douglas A. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034281
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The impact of increased cost-sharing on utilization of low value services : evidence from the state of Oregon
Gruber, Jonathan; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Wright, Bill - 2017
copayments and coinsurance, for several healthcare services believed to be of low value and overused (sleep studies, endoscopies … insurance claims data, we estimate the change in low value healthcare service utilization among beneficiaries before and after … public and private healthcare policies as V-BID principles are rapidly proliferating in healthcare markets. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596164
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Heterogeneous effects of medical interventions on the health of low-risk newborns
Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; Ewijk, Reyn van - 2016
We investigate the impact of early-life medical interventions on low-risk newborn health. A policy rule in The Netherlands creates large discontinuities in medical treatments at gestational week 37. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find no health benefits from additional treatments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455287
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461491
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Racial and ethnic disparities in the use of drug therapy
Bowblis, John R.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2010
The purpose of this research is to explain the variation in the utilization of drug therapy for the medical conditions of depression, high cholesterol, and hypertension between Hispanics, non-Hispanic blacks, and non-Hispanics whites using Oaxaca-type decomposition analysis based on logit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003947959
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Patients whose GP knows complementary medicine tend to have lower costs and live longer
Kooreman, Peter; Baars, Erik W. - 2011
used containing quarterly information on healthcare costs (care by general practitioner (GP), hospital care, pharmaceutical … percent lower healthcare costs and mortality rates, depending on age groups and type of CAM. The lower costs result from fewer …. -- healthcare costs ; life expectancy ; complementary medicine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308090
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Consequences of ADHD medication use for children's outcomes
Dalsgaard, Søren; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Simonsen, Marianne - 2014
This paper estimates effects of early ADHD medication use on key human capital outcomes for children diagnosed with ADHD while using rarely available register based data on diagnoses and prescription drug purchases. Our main identification strategy exploits plausible exogenous assignment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358748
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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 … between patients affiliated with healthcare professionals and their counterpart patients not affiliated with healthcare … professionals. Using the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) in 2014, we identified 806 patients affiliated with healthcare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304913