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School-based healthcare and absenteeism : evidence from telemedicine

Komisarow, Sarah; Hemelt, Steven W. - 2023

-based healthcare, telemedicine, that offers the potential to reach places and populations with historically low access to such care …. School-based telemedicine clinics (SBTCs) provide students with access to healthcare during the regular school day through …The prevalence of school-based healthcare has increased markedly over the past decade. We study a modern mode of school …

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Big data is a big deal but how much data do we need?

Askitas, Nikos - 2016

The more conservative among us believe that "Big Data is a fad that will soon fade out" and they may in fact be partially right. By contrast, others - especially those who dispassionately note that digitization is only now beginning to deliver its payload - may beg to differ. We argue that all...

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Mapping "information economy" businesses with big data : findings for the UK

Nathan, Max; Rosso, Anna; Bouet, Francois - 2014

Governments around the world want to develop their ICT and digital industries. Policymakers thus need a clear sense of the size and characteristics of digital businesses, but this is hard to do with conventional datasets and industry codes. This paper uses innovative "big data" resources to...

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Digital waste? : unintended consequences of health information technology

Böckerman, Petri; Kortelainen, Mika; Laine, Liisa T.; … - 2019

We exploit a large-scale natural experiment - the rollout of a nationwide electronic prescribing system in Finland - to study how digitization of prescriptions affects pharmaceutical use and health outcomes. We use comprehensive administrative data from patients treated with benzodiazepines,...

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Information integration, coordination failures, and quality of prescribing

Böckerman, Petri; Laine, Liisa T.; Nurminen, Mikko; … - 2020

Poor information flows hamper coordination, potentially leading to suboptimal decisions in health care. We examine the effects of a nationwide policy of information integration on the quality of prescribing. We use the rollout of an electronic prescribing system in Finland and prescription-level...

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Estimating intergenerational health transmission in Taiwan with administrative health records

Chang, Harrison; Halliday, Timothy; Lin, Ming-Jeng; … - 2023

We use population-wide administrative health records from Taiwan to estimate intergenerational persistence in health, providing the first estimates for a middle income country. We measure latent health by applying principal components analysis to a set of indicators for 13 broad ICD categories...

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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