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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013449379
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Optimal travel restrictions in epidemics
Shi, Wei; Qiu, Yun; Yu, Pei; Chen, Xi - 2022
Travel restrictions are often imposed to limit the spread of infectious diseases. As uniform restrictions can be inefficient and incur unnecessarily high costs, this paper examines the optimal design of restrictions that target specific travel routes. We propose a model with trade-offs between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198844
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Mental health costs of lockdowns: evidence from age-specific curfews in Turkey
Altındaǧ, Onur; Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar - 2021
Using a strict, age-specific lockdown order for adults aged 65 and older in Turkey, we examine the mental health consequences of an extended period of tight mobility restrictions on senior adults. Adopting a regression discontinuity design, we find that the curfew-induced decline in mobility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509325
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293680
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The long lasting influenza : the impact of fetal stress during the 1918 influenza pandemic on socioeconomic attainment and health in Sweden 1968 - 2012
Bengtsson, Tommy; Helgertz, Jonas - 2015
The observation in the 1940s, that children to mothers having rubella in the first part of the pregnancy experienced elevated health risks in later life led to a growing interest into whether fetal exposure to other – less severe - diseases could cause health problems as well. Epidemiological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337157
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The economics of hospital trips and health care reform
Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
hospitalization. Therefore, the current efforts to reduce expenditures by relying on consumer behaviour are unlikely to work. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294521
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517561
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Dark passage: mental health consequences of parental death
Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Jepsen, Christopher - 2021
hospitalization for mental health-related reasons by the age of 30. We find that there is no clear evidence of increased … hospitalization following the death of a parent of a different gender, but there are significant effects for boys losing their fathers … and girls losing their mothers. Depression is the most common cause of hospitalization in the first three years following …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518237
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Does changing the legal drinking age influence youth behaviour?
Boes, Stefan; Stillman, Steven - 2013
This paper examines the impact of a reduction in the legal drinking age in New Zealand from 20 to 18 on alcohol use, and alcohol-related hospitalisations and vehicular accidents among teenagers. We use both a difference-in-differences approach and a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009776987
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School tracking and mental health
Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Jepsen, Christopher; … - 2019
We examine the effects of a comprehensive school reform on mental health. The reform postponed the tracking of students into vocational and academic schools from age 11 to age 16. The reform was implemented gradually across Finnish municipalities between 1972 and 1977. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130295