Similar Search Results

Unmet health care need and income-related horizontal equity in access during the COVID-19 pandemic

Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2020

Using monthly data from the Understanding Society (UKHLS) COVID-19 Survey we analyse the evolution of unmet need and assess how the UK health care system performed against the norm of horizontal equity in health care access during the first wave of COVID-19 wave. Unmet need was most evident for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322233

Role of professionalism in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: does a public health or medical background help?

Li, Xun; Lai, Weizheng; Wan, Qianqian; Chen, Xi - 2021

In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy response and performance for disease control and prevention within and across nations. It remains unclear to what extent these variations may be explained by bureaucrats'...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612858

Does universalization of healthwork? : evidence from health systems restructuring and expansion in Brazil

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2019

We investigate universalization of access to health in Brazil. We find large reductions in maternal, foetal, neonatal and post-neonatal mortality, a reduction in fertility and, possibly on account of selection, no change in the quality of births. Using rich administrative data, we investigate...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974631

The effect of universal health care on the out-of-pocket health expenditures : evidence from a natural experiment

Asali, Muhammad; Pantsulaia, Valida - 2022

healthcare plan on the level of out-of-pocket (OOP) health expenditures of households. We find that the program saved households … an economically and statistically significant amount of 92 GEL per household/month: a major effect, amounting to about 10 …% of the average household monthly income and 30% of the average individual monthly income at the time. The OOP payments …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013345889

Health system trust and compliance with COVID-19 restrictions

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2023

positive effect of trust in the healthcare system. Our interpretation of the estimates is that RM is interpreted as a risk … signal among those over 45, and as a signal of health-care system failure among younger age individuals. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013547703

C-sections, obesity, and health-care specialization : evidence from Mexico

Herrera, Catalina; Marquez-Padilla, Fernanda; Prina, Silvia - 2023

This study explores whether hospitals with higher increases in obesity levels have higher CS rates and the consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of hospitals' patient pools may affect the quantity and quality of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311942

The failed history of quarantines, and its implications for public health

Sabhlok, Sanjeev; Frijters, Paul; Foster, Gigi; … - 2024

This paper reviews the history of the practice of quarantines, rediscovering the 19th century 'Sanitarian' movement in Britain that sprang from a recognition that quarantines had failed to stop the spread of diseases and were not cost-effective. To our knowledge, the key figure among the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580186

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 … medical services offered by township healthcare centers (THCs), a main type of PHIs. Linking medical visits to 923 THCs in a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318198

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986012

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

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last