hospital patients (65 years and older) in Brazil and Mexico. We develop a continuum-of-care conceptual framework based on prior … the inappropriate days can be attributed to hospital inefficiency (36% in Brazil and 49% in Mexico), an important share is … days in Brazil and 7% in Mexico. In a back-of-the-envelope calculation, we estimate that providing six weeks of long …

living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved …