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Regulation of pharmaceutical prices : evidence from a reference price reform in Denmark
Kaiser, Ulrich; Méndez, Susan J.; Rønde, Thomas; … - 2013
Reference prices constitute a main determinant of patient health care reimbursement in many countries. We study the effects of a change from an "external" (based on a basket of prices in other countries) to an "internal" (based on comparable domestic products) reference price system. We find...
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The effects of becoming a physician on prescription drug use and mental health treatment
Anderson, D. Mark; Diris, Ron; Montizaan, Raymond; … - 2021
There is evidence that physicians disproportionately suffer from substance use disorder and mental health problems. It is not clear, however, whether these phenomena are causal. We use data on Dutch medical school applicants to examine the effects of becoming a physician on prescription drug use...
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The effects of unemployment on health, hospitalizations, and mortality - evidence from administrative data
Vodopivec, Matija; Laporšek, Suzana; Stare, Janez; … - 2021
Linking health to the employment history of the whole Slovenia's workforce, this paper employs three innovative features. First, it utilizes a novel "double proof" approach of addressing the reverse causality that tracks only healthy individuals, making sure that any unemployment spell that...
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Do hospitals respond to increasing prices by supplying fewer services?
Salm, Martin; Wübker, Ansgar - 2015
increasing prices. We test this prediction based on a reform of hospital financing in Germany. Uniquely, this reform changed the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308552
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The effect of absolute versus relative temperature on health and the role of social care
Masiero, Giuliano; Mazzonna, Fabrizio; Santarossa, Michael - 2021
We investigate the effect of extreme temperatures on mortality and emergency hospital admissions, and whether local … social care allows to mitigate their adverse effects. We merge monthly administrative data on mortality and hospital … mortality rates and hospital admission rates for both cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. These effects are mostly driven …
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The impact of air pollution on attributable risks and economic costs of hospitalization for mental disorders
Wu, Ziting; Chen, Xi; Li, Guoxing; Lin, Tian; Wang, Zhan; … - 2020
.5 and risk of hospital admissions (HAs) for MDs in Beijing and measure the attributable risk and economic cost. We apply a …
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How do low-income enrollees in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces respond to cost-sharing?
Lavetti, Kurt; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2019
link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy …
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Does the marginal hospitalization save lives? : the case of respiratory admissions for the elderly
Currie, Janet M.; Slusky, David - 2020
hospitalization puts patients at risk of hospital acquired conditions and disrupts their lives. We use variation in the patient …'s nearest hospital's propensity to admit patients with similar observable characteristics as an instrument for the admission … we find that the marginal hospital admission increases the number of hospital days by seven days and increases charges by …
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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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The economic costs of child maltreatment in UK
Conti, Gabriella; Pizzo, Elena; Morris, Stephen; … - 2021
Child maltreatment is a major public health problem with significant consequences for individual victims and for society. In this paper we quantify for the first time the economic costs of fatal and non-fatal child maltreatment in the UK in relation to several short-, medium- and long-term...
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