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The Impact of New Laboratory Procedures and Other Medical Innovations on the Health of Americans, 1990-2003 : Evidence from Longitudinal, Disease-Level Data
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2021
the health of Americans during the period 1990-2003. We hypothesize that, the more medical innovation there is related to … hypothesis, we estimate models of health outcomes using longitudinal disease-level data. We measure innovation in five types of … outpatient drug innovation had larger increases in mean age at death, controlling for other medical innovation rates and initial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247291
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Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care
Skinner, Jonathan S. - 2012
Inefficiency in the U.S. health care system has often been characterized as quot;flat of the curvequot; spending providing little or no incremental value. In this paper, we draw on macroeconomic models of diffusion and productivity to better explain the empirical patterns of outcome improvements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754821
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Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Health Care
Chandra, Amitabh - 2011
In the United States, health care technology has contributed to rising survival rates, yet health care spending relative to GDP has also grown more rapidly than in any other country. We develop a model of patient demand and supplier behavior to explain these parallel trends in technology growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127016
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Estimating the Impact of Medical Innovation : A Case Study of HIV Antiretroviral Treatments
Duggan, Mark; Evans, William N. - 2021
As health care consumes a growing share of national income in the U.S., the demand for better estimates regarding both the benefits and the costs of new health care treatments is likely to increase. Estimating these effects with observational data is difficult given the endogeneity of treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229012
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Using Performance Incentives to Improve Medical Care Productivity and Health Outcomes
Gertler, Paul J. - 2013
We nested a large-scale field experiment into the national rollout of the introduction of performance pay for medical care providers in Rwanda to study the effect of incentives for health care providers. In order to identify the effect of incentives separately from higher compensation, we held...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081846
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759803
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Long Run Effects of Temporary Incentives on Medical Care Productivity
Celhay, Pablo A. - 2015
organizational inertia in innovation, and suggest that temporary incentives may be effective at motivating improvements in long run …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019124
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Effects of Adult Health Interventions at Scale on Children's Schooling : Evidence from Antiretroviral Therapy in Zambia
Lucas, Adrienne - 2016
In 2007, approximately one in five children in Zambia lived with an HIV positive adult. We identify the effect of adult antiretroviral therapy (ART) availability at scale on children's educational outcomes by combining data on the expansion of ART availability with two national household surveys...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980197
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How Spillovers from Appointment Reminders Improve Health Clinic Efficiency
Boone, Claire; Celhay, Pablo A.; Gertler, Paul J.; … - 2022
Missed clinic appointments present a significant burden to health care through disruption of care, inefficient use of staff time and wasted clinical resources. Short message service (SMS) appointment reminders show promise to improve clinics’ management through timely appointment cancellations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090297
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Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms : Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard - 2012
We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111743