health improvements, which we estimate at 1.82 years of quality-adjusted life. However, these were roughly offset by … health by way of behavioral improvements and public health are possible …

In 2006, Massachusetts passed health care reform legislation designed to achieve nearly universal coverage through a … from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we provide evidence that health care reform in Massachusetts led to … better overall self-assessed health. Various robustness checks and placebo tests support a causal interpretation of the …

This chapter surveys experience with performance pay in developing country health programs. In doing so, it focuses on …-income country health programs …

Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax …-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition …. First, health insurance would boost fiscal revenues for health care, as post-treatment out-of-pocket payments to providers …

medical preventive measures improve expected health, they do not save money. Various lifestyle and early childhood … interventions, however, may both save money and improve health. Second, preventive measures, including medical and lifestyle …, generalizations in everyday discourse about the value of prevention can be overly broad. Third, health insurance coverage for medical …

Poverty is strongly associated with worse health across countries and within countries across individuals. However, not … all poor individuals suffer from poor health: the effects of poverty on health vary across place and time. In this review … what is known about policies that may improve the health of the poor. We focus primarily on the modern-day United States …

There are ongoing debates around the world over the value of private supplements to public health insurance systems. We … causal estimate of enrollment in private supplement to the free public health system. Our final sample of more than 1000 … improved treatment compliance and health behaviors, and that diabetes complications fall even in the short run. The net costs …

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the Community Health Center (CHC) on health levels in the U.S. Using … infant mortality as the underlying health indicator, a time series of large counties as the data set, and multivariate … reduction in the excess mortality rate of black babies has been dentfied as a goal of public health policy for a number of years …