We examine the effects of the State Innovation Models (SIM) on population-level health status. The SIM initiative … Surveillance System for the years 2010 -- 2016 to compare health of the populations in 6 SIM states to 15 states that were not … involved in any aspects of SIM. We examine changes in health using an event study design. We develop a Latent Class Profile …

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 …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

policy analysis, such as spurious reductions in measured health system performance as screening expands …

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 …

public. A millennial perspective is best obtained from skeletal remains, which depict not only childhood health conditions … but also processes of degeneration that accompany aging and strenuous physical effort. Compiled into an index of health …, data from 23 localities as part of a large collaborative project on the Western Hemisphere reveal diverse health conditions …

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 …