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 the associations of the pandemic with healthcare utilization, out …

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 …

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 … healthcare quality was assessed at baseline through healthcare discrimination and dissatisfaction with healthcare services. The …

to infectious ones. These results highlight the need for cautious AI integration in healthcare systems to ensure quality …

-income countries for primary healthcare delivery. We exploit the rollout of a nation-wide expansion of coverage to this model in El … Salvador. Using a panel dataset of municipalities spanning 2009-2018 from consultation and hospital records of almost 4 million … episodes, we show that investing in community-based healthcare, which relied on less-specialized health workers, led to a more …