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 …

, however, upon the goals (e.g. improved health, equity, cost containment, care production efficiency, and client satisfaction … from service) of the publicly supported health system. The potential to achieve these goals is at greatest risk in the … in health systems can offer the best possible solution to the public-private mix issue. In this paradigm, budget …

This paper reviews the public sector role in the provision of health care. A first role of the government is to use tax … correct distortions in markets for medical care and health insurance. Markets for health insurance have traditionally not …

elderly patients in the context of the initiative taken by the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan to discourage lengthy …

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 …

infectious disease. Local policies have little impact on the economy nor on local public health. Stay-at-home is only weakly … economic and public health shock. They also show that policy spillovers and behavioral responses are important. The tradeoff … between the economy and public health in a pandemic depends strongly on what is happening elsewhere. This underscores the …