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Re-Examining Supplier-Induced Demand in Health Care : Comparisons Among Patients Affiliated and Not Affiliated with Healthcare Professionals in China
Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Chen, Xi - 2021
Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. This study used coarsened exact matching to test the hypothesis of supplier-induced demand (SID) by comparing health care utilization and expenditures between patients affiliated with healthcare...
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An Ounce of Prevention for a Pound of Cure : Efficiency of Community-Based Healthcare
Bancalari, Antonella; Bernal, Pedro; Celhay, Pablo; … - 2023
Salvador. Using a panel dataset of municipalities spanning 2009-2018 from consultation and hospital records of almost 4 million …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345561
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Hospital Closures and Short-Run Change in Ambulance Call Times
Chaudhary, Sookti - 2019
We measure one aspect of how access to emergency care through ambulance services changes for patients when a hospital … period immediately after the hospital closes. We find urban patients in zip codes where a hospital closes have a small change … to transport a patient from the location of the incident to the hospital. The impact on rural Medicare-eligible patients …
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The Gift of a Lifetime : The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality
Hollingsworth, Alex; Thomasson, Melissa; Karbownik, … - 2022
of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. Despite the central role of …. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a … combination of novel data and a unique quasi-experiment: a large-scale hospital modernization program introduced by The Duke …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241970
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Do Non-Monetary Interventions Improve Staff Retention? Evidence from English NHS Hospitals
Sayli, Melisa; Moscelli, Giuseppe; Blanden, Jo; Bojke, Chris - 2022
decreased exits from the public hospital sector. Our results indicate that a light-touch intervention can shift management … behavior and improve hospital workforce turnover. These findings are important in sectors affected by labor supply shortages …
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Consumption Smoothing in the Demand for Health Care
Kristensen, Nicolai - 2016
We investigate how, in temporary economic hardship, agents change their consumption of health services, and how this depends on whether the service is universally free-of-charge visits to GP's or privately co-financed dental care. We find that own expenditures for dental care decrease. The...
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Can Regional Decentralisation Shift Health Care Preferences?
Costa-Font, Joan - 2017
Uniform health care delivered by a mainstream public insurer – such as the National Health Service (NHS), seldom satisfies heterogeneous demands for care, and some unsatisfied share of the population either use private health care, or purchase private insurance (PHI). One potential mechanism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942108
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Changes in Healthcare Utilization, Spending, and Perceived Health During Covid–19 : A Longitudinal Study from Singapore
Ahn, SangNam - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822866
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"Placebo Tests" for the Impacts of Air Pollution on Health : The Challenge of Limited Healthcare Infrastructure
Guidetti, Bruna; Pereda, Paula; Severnini, Edson - 2021
When examining the impacts of exposure to air pollution on health outcomes, researchers usually carry out "placebo tests" to provide evidence in support of their identification assumption. In general, this exercise targets health conditions seemingly unrelated to air pollution. In this study, we...
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Did Medicaid Expansion Reduce Medical Divorce?
Slusky, David - 2020
Medical divorce occurs when couples split up so that one spouse's medical bills do not deplete the assets of the healthy spouse. It has not been studied in the economics literature, but it has been discussed by attorneys and widely reported in the media. We develop a model of medical divorce...
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