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Fajgelbaum, Pablo D. - 2020

simple centrality-based rules. In NYM and Daegu—with large initial shocks—the optimal lockdown restricts inflows to central …

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The Contribution of Behavior Change and Public Health to Improved U.S. Population Health

Stewart, Susan T. - 2014

Adverse behavioral risk factors contribute to a large share of deaths. We examine the effects on life expectancy (LE) and quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) of changes in six major behavioral risk factors over the 1960-2010 period: smoking, obesity, heavy alcohol use, and unsafe use of...

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Effectiveness of Government Policy : An Experience from a National Healthcare System

Yamada, Tetsuji - 2010

This paper examines the trade-off between the length of treatment days and the units of service provided per day for elderly patients in the context of the initiative taken by the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan to discourage lengthy hospital treatment and/or stay by elderly patients. By...

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The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances : The 20th Century United States

Cutler, David M.; Miller, Grant - 2021

Mortality rates in the US fell more rapidly during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries than any other period in American history. This decline coincided with an epidemiological transition and the disappearance of a mortality "penalty" associated with living in urban areas. There is little...

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Health Care and the Public Sector

Cutler, David M. - 2021

This paper summarizes the many aspects of public policy for health care. I first consider government policy affecting individual behaviors. Government intervention to change individual actions such as smoking and drinking is frequently justified on externality grounds. External costs of smoking...

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Disease Complementarities and the Evaluation of Public Health Interventions

Dow, William H.; Holmes, Jessica; Philipson, Tomas; … - 2022

This paper provides a theoretical and empirical investigation of the positive complementarities between disease-specific policies introduced by competing risks of mortality. The incentive to invest in prevention against one cause of death depends positively on the level of survival from other...

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

Preston, Samuel H. - 2010

dominant role. We show that the US has had significantly faster declines in mortality from these two diseases than comparison …

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Pandemic Lockdown : The Role of Government Commitment

Moser, Christian - 2020

This paper studies optimal lockdown policies in a dynamic economy without government commitment. A lockdown imposes a …

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A Simple Planning Problem for COVID-19 Lockdown

Alvarez, Fernando - 2020

We study the optimal lockdown policy for a planner who wants to control the fatalities of a pandemic while minimizing … the output costs of the lockdown. We use the SIR epidemiology model and a linear economy to formalize the planner … parametrize the model using data on the COVID19 pandemic and the economic breadth of the lockdown. The quantitative analysis …

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