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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 … utilization, outcomes, and costs for patients hospitalized for dementia in China. Regional patterns demonstrate gaps in equity and … China. …
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Do primary healthcare facilities in more remote areas provide more medical services? : spatial evidence from rural Western China
Shen, Chi; Lai, Sha; Deng, Qiwei; Cao, Dan; Zhao, Dantong; … - 2023
Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years …. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services … provider in China, we applied a multilevel linear model and a geographically weighted regression to examine spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318198
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The right to health and the health effects of denials
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021
We estimate the health costs of supply-side barriers to accessing medical care. The setting is Colombia, where citizens have a constitutional right to health care, but insurance companies that manage delivery impose restrictions on access. We use administrative data on judicial claims for health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609195
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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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On the rise of health spending and longevity
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Galama, Titus; … - 2009
We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change along with the increase in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925549
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Patients whose GP knows complementary medicine tend to have lower costs and live longer
Kooreman, Peter; Baars, Erik W. - 2011
Health economists have largely ignored complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as an area of research, although both clinical experiences and several empirical studies suggest cost-effectiveness of CAM. The objective of this paper is to explore the cost-effectiveness of CAM compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308090
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Increasing coverage of antiretroviral therapy and male medical circumcision in HIV hyperendemic countries : a cost-benefit analysis
Geldsetzer, Pascal; Bloom, David E.; Humair, Salal; … - 2015
HIV continues to cause the largest number of disability-adjusted life years of any disease in HIV hyperendemic countries (i.e., countries with an adult HIV prevalence 15%). We compare the benefits and costs of two proven biological interventions to reduce the health losses due to the HIV...
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Physicians and the production of health : returns to health care during the mortality transition
Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2022
This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184082
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Changes in healthcare utilization, spending, and perceived health during COVID–19: a longitudinal study from Singapore
Ahn, SangNam; Kim, Seonghoon; Koh, Kanghyock - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the capacity of healthcare systems around the world and can potentially compromise healthcare utilization and health outcomes among non-COVID-19 patients. Using monthly panel data of nationally representative middle-aged and older Singaporeans, we examined...
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The effects of patient cost-sharing on adolescents' healthcare utilization and financial risk protection : evidence from South Korea
Kim, Seonghoon; Koh, Kanghyock; Lyou, Wonjun - 2024
We examine the effects of patient cost-sharing on adolescents' healthcare utilization and out-of-pocket medical expenditures by exploiting the healthcare reform in South Korea that lowered the coinsurance rate for inpatient care from 20% to 5% for children under 16. We apply a...
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