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 as a proxy for unmet demand. We validate this using the register …

To know how better economic conditions impact health-related choices is critical when formulating public policies that … aim at improving the population's health, both in terms of outcomes and habits. Through the use of two national surveys …

perspective this implies that the broad expansion of government provided health insurance in Colombia contributed to increasing …

health, caregivers' parenting stress and responsive caregiving, and early childhood mental health. We use data collected from …-related violence had negative effects across the four main dimensions: increased parental mental health problems in 0.68 sd (SE=0 ….023 sd (SE=0.434 ; q-value=0.074) and increased child mental health problems in 0.556 sd (SE=0.343 ; q-value=0.074). By …