The contraction in health care consumption at the start of the pandemic provides insight into central economic … questions of waste and productivity in the U.S. health care system. Using linked mortality and Electronic Medical Records, we …-year mortality by 29.7 deaths per 10,000 among compliers, implying that a 10% increase in health care appointments reduces mortality …

We investigate whether people enrolled into voluntary health insurance (VHI) substitute public consumption with private … the case of Italy, where a mixed insurance system is in place. To this purpose, we specify a joint model for public and … private specialist visits counts, and allow for different degrees of endogenous supplementary insurance coverage, looking at …

expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust …. We report several findings. First, we document a strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …

individuals are differently motivated in that they have different missions, and their self-selection into sectors or organizations … with matching missions enhances organizational efficiency. We test Besley and Ghatak's model using data from a unique … cohort study. We generate two proxies for intrinsic motivations: a survey-based measure of the health professionals …

In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is … instead if their income exceeds the compulsory insurance threshold. Here, premia are based on age and health, individuals may … private insurance coverage on the number of doctor visits, the number of nights spent in a hospital and self-assessed health …

Most developing countries face shortages of health workers in rural areas. This has profound consequences for health … service delivery, and ultimately for health outcomes. To design policies that rectify these geographic imbalances it is vital … to understand what factors determine health workers' choice to work in rural areas. But empirical analysis of health …

Technological innovation in medical services can improve health, but its ability to reach patients often depends on …

I demonstrate that to achieve dynamic efficiency, the optimal share of total surplus that a social payer should … insurance - for surplus appropriation by the innovating industry. I also explore how alternative financing mechanisms used by …

Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax …. First, health insurance would boost fiscal revenues for health care, as post-treatment out-of-pocket payments to providers … would be replaced by pre-treatment insurance premia to health ministries. Second, increased patient choice and carefully …

For those who follow health and technology news, it is difficult to go more than a few days without reading about a … compelling new application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to health care. AI has myriad applications in medicine and its … health care delivery, including administrative work, diagnosis, and treatment. In diagnosis and treatment, a large and …