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The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and its Lessons for Covid-19
Beach, Brian - 2020
This article reviews the global health and economic consequences of the 1918 influenza pandemic, with a particular focus on topics that have seen a renewed interest because of COVID-19. We begin by providing an overview of key contextual and epidemiological details as well as the data that are...
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Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control COVID-19? Local Shelter-in-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth
Dave, Dhaval - 2020
One of the most common policy prescriptions to reduce the spread of COVID-19 has been to legally enforce social distancing through state or local shelter-in-place orders (SIPOs). This paper is the first to explore the comparative effectiveness of early county-level SIPOs versus later statewide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833074
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The Subways Seeded the Massive Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City
Harris, Jeffrey E. - 2020
incidence, are strongly consistent with subway-facilitated disease propagation. Reciprocal seeding of infection appears to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836421
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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 … impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks suggests that they may prompt vaccination behavior. I use newly compiled data … on vaccinations and outbreaks to estimate whether vaccinations respond to disease outbreaks. I find that the pertussis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985902
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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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Have Newer Cardiovascular Drugs Reduced Hospitalization? Evidence from Longitudinal Country-Level Data on 20 OECD Countries, 1995-2003
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2010
and mortality due to cardiovascular disease using longitudinal country-level data. The vintage of a drug is the first year … cardiovascular drug doses that contained post-1990 or post-1995 ingredients had smaller increases in the cardiovascular disease … mortality rate, but not the number of potential years of life lost due to cardiovascular disease before age 70 per 100 …
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The Role of Information in Medical Markets : An Analysis of Publicly Reported Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery
Cutler, David M. - 2010
During the past two decades, several public and private organizations have initiated programs to report publicly on the quality of medical care provided by specific hospitals and physicians. These programs have sparked broad debate among economists and policy makers concerning whether, and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012762633
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A Machine Learning Approach to Low-Value Health Care : Wasted Tests, Missed Heart Attacks and Mis-Predictions
Mullainathan, Sendhil - 2019
We use machine learning to better characterize low-value health care and the decisions that produce it. We focus on costly tests, specifically for heart attack (acute coronary syndromes). A test is only useful if it yields new information, so efficient testing is grounded in accurate prediction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864474
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The Impact of Health on Labor Market Outcomes : Experimental Evidence from Mrfit
Stephens, Melvin - 2018
find that this intervention, which provided a bundle of treatments to reduce coronary heart disease mortality, increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929550
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Geographical Distribution of Emergency Department Closures and Consequences on Heart Attack Patients
Shen, Yu-Chu - 2016
We develop a conceptual framework and empirically investigate how a permanent emergency department (ED) closure affects patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We first document that large increases in driving time to closest ED are more likely to happen in low-income communities and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978526