cannot be usefully evaluated by comparisons of infant mortality and life expectancy. We analyze several alternative measures … health status, measured in various ways is similar in both countries, mortality/incidence ratios for various cancers tend to …

questions of waste and productivity in the U.S. health care system. Using linked mortality and Electronic Medical Records, we …-year mortality rates by 4 deaths per 10,000. Instrumental variable estimates suggest that a cancelled appointment increased one …-year mortality by 29.7 deaths per 10,000 among compliers, implying that a 10% increase in health care appointments reduces mortality …

We examine whether loss of emergency department services is associated with county-level mortality rates in rural areas … emergency department closure on all-cause mortality; drug, alcohol, and suicide deaths; or AMI mortality. We find that closure …, as well as an increase in AMI mortality in the South and West …

mortality for time-sensitive conditions: sepsis, stroke, asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and acute … Development (OSHPD) data, the impact of hospital closures on inpatient mortality is estimated. Outcomes of admissions in hospital … closures increase inpatient mortality by 0.46% points (an increase of 5.9%), whereas urban closures have no impact. Results …

, cancer detection increased by 72 per 100,000 population among women and 33 per 100,000 population among men; cancer mortality …-universal access to Medicare at age 65 is associated with improvements in population-level cancer mortality and provides new evidence …

of Doyle et al. (2015), we find that the VA reduces 28-day mortality by 46% (4.5 percentage points) and that these …

Life expectancy in the United States fares poorly in international comparisons, primarily because of high mortality … blood pressure or cholesterol. We consider in greater depth mortality from prostate cancer and breast cancer, diseases for … dominant role. We show that the US has had significantly faster declines in mortality from these two diseases than comparison …