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Health Status, Health Care and Inequality : Canada vs. The U.S

O'Neill, June - 2010

Does Canada's publicly funded, single payer health care system deliver better health outcomes and distribute health resources more equitably than the multi-payer heavily private U.S. system? We show that the efficacy of health care systems cannot be usefully evaluated by comparisons of infant...

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What Determines Corruption? International Evidence from Micro Data

Mocan, Naci H. - 2021

This paper utilizes a micro-level data set from 49 countries to address three issues: What determines corruption at the … individual level? What determines the perception of the extent of corruption in the country? Does corruption have a direct impact … corruption which portrays the extent of corruption as revealed byindividuals who live in those countries. The results show that …

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Low Life Expectancy in the United States : Is the Health Care System at Fault?

Preston, Samuel H. - 2010

Life expectancy in the United States fares poorly in international comparisons, primarily because of high mortality rates above age 50. Its low ranking is often blamed on a poor performance by the health care system rather than on behavioral or social factors. This paper presents evidence on the...

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How Much Might Universal Health Insurance Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities in Health? A Comparison of the Us and Canada

Decker, Sandra L.; Remler, Dahlia - 2021

A strong association between lower socioeconomic status (SES) and worse health-- the SES-health gradient-- has been documented in many countries, but little work has compared the size of the gradient across countries. We compare the size of the income gradient in self-reported health in the US...

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Can Diffuse Delivery System Reforms Improve Population Health? A Study of the State Innovation Models Initiative

Deb, Partha; Gangaram, Anjelica; Nouri Khajavi, Hoda - 2022

We examine the effects of the State Innovation Models (SIM) on population-level health status. The SIM initiative provided $250 million to six states in 2013 for delivery system reforms. We use data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for the years 2010 -- 2016 to compare health...

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Natural Disasters and Elective Medical Services : How Big is the Bounce-Back?

Deryugina, Tatyana - 2020

COVID-19 has created a dual set of stresses on health care systems worldwide: a rise in expensive intensive care services and a dramatic decline in elective services. The U.S. government has responded with both grant and loan programs to help health care providers weather the storm. But the...

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International Differences in Longevity and Health and Their Economic Consequences

Michaud, Pierre-Carl - 2010

In 1975, 50 year-old Americans could expect to live slightly longer than their European counterparts. By 2005, American life expectancy at that age has diverged substantially compared to Europe. We find that this growing longevity gap is primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of...

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Family Structure and the Treatment of Childhood Asthma

Chen, Alex Y. - 2007

Background: Family structure is known to influence children's behavioral, educational, and cognitive outcomes, and recent studies suggest that family structure affects children's access to health care as well. However, no study has addressed whether family structure is associated with the care...

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Altiero Spinelli and the idea of the US constitution as a model for Europe : the promises and pitfalls of an analogy

Glencross, Andrew (contributor) - 2008

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What shapes local public transportation in Europe? Economics, Mobility, Institutions, and Geography

Albalate, Daniel; Bel, Germà - 2009

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