life-saving interventions within the health care sector. An online discrete choice experiment was conducted with a sample … suicides in comparison to deaths due to pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, and acute heart attack. The choice set consisted of … lives by suicide prevention lower than saving lives from pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, or acute heart attack. …

In this paper, we test whether promoting digital government tools increases the take-up of an important public health … prevention service: cervical cancer screening. We implemented an at-scale field experiment in Uruguay, randomly encouraging women …

We provide a framework to disentangle the role of preferences and beliefs in health behavior, and we apply it to … mental health. But we also document substantial heterogeneity in preferences and/or expectations by vulnerability status … political party plan to comply less. These findings emphasize the need for public health policies to account for heterogenous …

from Bogota's Secretariat of Health in a field experiment, we measure the impact of various norm nudges, including trending … influencing minority behaviors, offering valuable insights for developing targeted and impactful public health strategies. …

Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and … additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health status. Using OECD health data for 24 countries between 1960 and 2004 … comparatively effective in reducing variability. -- production of health ; control over health status ; Gini coefficient …

This paper provides new evidence that preventive health care services delivered at schools and provided at a relatively … differences in the avail-ability of health professionals across municipalities and cohorts. In municipalities with one fewer … of primary and specialist health care services at ages 25-35, without impacts on emergency room admissions. The reform …