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the state. Since then, Brazil has adopted a policy regime that combines both neoliberal policies - associated with those … outcomes, such as life expectancy and infant mortality, have improved significantly. What steps did Brazil take to achieve … agent in inducing development in Brazil opens a window of opportunity to create a virtuous complementarity between health …
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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 …
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We study the effects of conditional cash transfers to pregnant women on stillbirths and child survival in Bolivia. Payments are conditional on compliance with medically recommended prenatal care and skilled birth attendance. At a value equivalent to just 1% of monthly household consumption, the...
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Trust in the health care system requires being confident that sufficient and appropriate treatments will be provided if needed. The COVID-19 public health crisis is a significant, global, and (mostly) simultaneous test of the behavioral implications arising from this trust. We explore whether...
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We examine the efficiency gains in health systems generated after the national roll out of basic healthcare in El Salvador between 2010 and 2013. Using data from over 120 million consultations and five million hospitalizations, we demonstrate that the expansion of community health teams,...
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Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and nonmedical inputs, often finding small marginal effects of the former. This paper argues that both types of input have an additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health...
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This study seeks to provide evidence for deciding whether or not a pharmaceutical innovation should be included in the benefit list of social health insurance. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted in Germany to measure preferences for modern insulin therapy. Of the 1,100 individuals...
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In this paper, we address the issue of spurious correlation in the production of health in a systematic way. Spurious correlation entails the risk of linking health status to medical (and nonmedical) inputs when no links exist. This note first presents the bounds testing procedure as a method to...
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