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Does Disease Cause Vaccination? Disease Outbreaks and Vaccination Response

Oster, Emily F. - 2016

Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last decade due largely to parental fears about vaccine dangers. Education campaigns on the safety of vaccines seem to have little impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks...

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Public Avoidance and the Epidemiology of Novel H1n1 Influenza a

Yoo, Byung-Kwang - 2010

hand sanitizer, and the use of face masks in public places. Existing forecasting models of the epidemic spread of nH1N1 … the formal modeling. In this paper, we build a forecasting model of the nH1N1 epidemic that explicitly accounts for … avoidance behavior. We use data from the U.S. summer and the Australian winter nH1N1 epidemic of 2009 to estimate the parameters …

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When Does Improving Health Raise GDP?

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012

We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous health improvements on output per capita. Our simulation model allows for a direct effect of health on worker productivity, as well as indirect effects that run through schooling, the size and age-structure of the population, capital accumulation,...

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Do Pandemics Change Healthcare? Evidence from the Great Influenza

Esteves, Rui; Mitchener, Kris James; Nencka, Peter; … - 2022

Using newly digitized U.S. city-level data on hospitals, we explore how pandemics alter preferences for healthcare. We find that cities with higher levels of mortality during the Great Influenza of 1918-1919 subsequently expanded hospital capacity by more than cities experiencing less influenza...

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Building Resilient Health Systems : Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone and the 2014 Ebola Outbreak

Christensen, Darin; Dube, Oeindrila; Haushofer, Johannes; … - 2022

Underuse of health systems and a lack of confidence in their quality contribute to high rates of mortality in the developing world. How individuals perceive health systems may be especially critical during epidemics, when they choose whether to cooperate with response efforts and frontline...

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Competitive Effects of Scope of Practice Restrictions : Public Health or Public Harm?

Markowitz, Sara - 2016

The demand for health care and healthcare professionals is predicted to grow significantly over the next decade. Securing an adequate health care workforce is of primary importance to ensure the health and wellbeing of the population in an efficient manner. Occupational licensing laws and...

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Do Stricter Immunization Laws Improve Coverage? Evidence from the Repeal of Non-Medical Exemptions for School Mandated Vaccines

Richwine, Chelsea - 2019

Nonmedical exemptions are widely shown to be associated with outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease. In response to a recent measles outbreak in 2015, California acted to increase immunization coverage by removing all nonmedical exemptions effective in 2016. Employing a unique dataset of...

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Effects of Reduced Workplace Presence on Covid-19 Deaths : An Instrumental-Variables Approach

McLaren, John; Wang, Su - 2021

Numerous government policies have attempted to keep workers out of the workplace, on the assumption that this will lower transmission of COVID-19. We test that assumption, measuring the effect of aggregate workplace absence on US COVID deaths at the county level through August. Instrumenting...

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Vaccine Allocation Priorities Using Disease Surveillance and Economic Data

Malani, Anup; Soman, Satej; Ramachandran, Sabareesh; … - 2022

Vaccination is a critical tool, along with suppression and treatment, for controlling epidemics such as SARS-CoV-2. To maximize the impact of vaccination, doses should be allocated to the highest value targets, accounting for health and potential economic benefits. We examine what allocation...

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Changing Research Perspectives on the Global Health Workforce

Bärnighausen, Till - 2009

Past research on the health workforce can be structured into three perspectives - "health workforce planning" (1960 through 1970s); "the health worker as economic actor" (1980s through 1990s); and "the health worker as necessary resource" (1990s through 2000s). During the first phase, shortages...

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