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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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Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2014

This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries in health outcomes, using data on life expectancy at age 65, over the period 1960 to 2007. We estimate a production function where life expectancy depends on health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and...

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An Ounce of Prevention for a Pound of Cure : Efficiency of Community-Based Healthcare

Bancalari, Antonella; Bernal, Pedro; Celhay, Pablo A.; … - 2023

We study the efficiency in health systems generated by community health teams, a common strategy in low- and middle-income countries for primary healthcare delivery. We exploit the rollout of a nation-wide expansion of coverage to this model in El Salvador. Using a panel dataset of...

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How Do Low-Income Enrollees in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces Respond to Cost-Sharing?

Lavetti, Kurt - 2019

The ACA requires insurers to provide cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the value of CSRs that are solely...

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The Economic Burden of Chronic Diseases : Estimates and Projections for China, Japan and South Korea

Bloom, David E. - 2017

We propose a novel framework to analyse the macroeconomic impact of non-communicable diseases. We incorporate measures of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic costs of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone...

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Promoting Breast Cancer Screening Take-Ups with Zero Cost : Evidence from an Experiment on Formatting Invitation Letters in Italy

Bertoni, Marco - 2019

We ran a randomized field experiment to ascertain whether a costless manipulation of the informational content (restricted or enhanced information) and the framing (gain or loss framing) of the invitation letter to the breast cancer screening program in Messina, Italy, affects the take-up rate....

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Foreign Physicians : Discriminatory Patient Preferences and Doctor Availability

Walker, Brigham; Wisniewski, Janna; Tinkler, Sarah Elizabeth - 2023

Roughly a quarter of physicians in the United States are either international medical graduates (IMGs) or foreign …-born physicians (FBPs). We propose a theoretical model where patient preferences that disfavor IMGs and FBPs may result in those … physicians offering better access to their services compared with non-IMGs/FBPs in equilibrium. We use data from two field …

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Community-Based Health Insurance and Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending in Africa : Evidence from Rwanda

Woldemichael, Andinet - 2016

In the absence of third party and prepayment systems such as health insurance and tax-based healthcare financing, households in many low-income countries are exposed to the financial risks of paying large medical bills from out-of-pocket. In recent years, community based health insurance schemes...

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The Effect of Universal Health Care on the Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Asali, Muhammad; Pantsulaia, Valida - 2022

In the first two quarters of 2013 the Georgian government introduced and fully implemented a universal health care (UHC) plan covering all those not-yet publicly or privately insured. We estimate the effect of the introduction of the universal healthcare plan on the level of out-of-pocket (OOP)...

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Assessing the Effectiveness of Health Care Cost Containment Measures

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2011

Using SOEP panel data and difference-in-differences methods, this study is the first to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of four different health care cost containment measures within an integrated framework. The four measures investigated were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral...

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