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Long-term care spending and hospital use among the older population in England

Crawford, Rowena; Stoye, George; Zaranko, Ben - 2020

inpatient or outpatient hospital use, and consequently little impact on overall public hospital costs. These results suggest …

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Quantifying the financial impact of overuse in primary care in China : a standardised patient study

Si, Yafei; Bateman, Hazel; Chen, Shu; Hanewald, Katja; … - 2023

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Are long hospitalizations substituting primary and long-term care? : evidence from Brazil and Mexico

Aranco, Natalia; Bauhoff, Sebastian; Schwarz, Natalie; … - 2024

Prolonged hospital stays, or hospital stays that are longer than medically necessary, are a major concern for patients … hospital patients (65 years and older) in Brazil and Mexico. We develop a continuum-of-care conceptual framework based on prior … that leads to more complex admissions; (ii) hospital inefficiency; and (iii) lack of rehabilitation, social, and long …

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The economic costs of child maltreatment in UK

Conti, Gabriella; Pizzo, Elena; Morris, Stephen; … - 2021

Child maltreatment is a major public health problem with significant consequences for individual victims and for society. In this paper we quantify for the first time the economic costs of fatal and non-fatal child maltreatment in the UK in relation to several short-, medium- and long-term...

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Estimating private health expenditures within a dynamic consumption allocation model

Willemé, Peter (contributor) - 2008

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Toxic exposure in America : estimating fetal and infant health outcomes

Agarwal, Nikhil; Banternghansa, Chanont; Bui, Linda T. M. - 2009

"We examine the effect of exposure to toxic releases that are tracked by the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) on county-level infant and fetal mortality rates in the United States between 1989-2002. We find significant adverse effects of TRI concentrations on infant mortality rates, but not on...

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Spurious correlation in estimation of the health production function : a note

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Lichtenberg, Frank R.; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2009

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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Static and dynamic efficiency of irreversible health care investments under alternative payment rules

Levaggi, Rosella; Moretto, Michele; Pertile, Paolo - 2010

The paper studies the incentive for providers to invest in new health care technologies under alternative payment systems, when the patients' benefits are uncertain. If the reimbursement by the purchaser includes both a variable (per patient) and a lump-sum component, efficiency can be ensured...

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The impact of public expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth and income distribution in Peru

Baca Campodónico, Jorge F.; Peschiera Cassinelli, Jorge R. - 2014

The Peruvian economy has exhibited remarkable growth in the past 20 years. Good tax and monetary policies, along with comprehensive structural adjustment, which has attracted substantial foreign investment, are regarded as the pillars of this success. Notwithstanding the advances experienced on...

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