We estimate the health costs of supply-side barriers to accessing medical care. The setting is Colombia, where citizens … have a constitutional right to health care, but insurance companies that manage delivery impose restrictions on access. We … use administrative data on judicial claims for health as a proxy for unmet demand. We validate this using the register …

intervention significantly improved maternal mental health, especially among mothers of boys. It resulted in imprecisely estimated … productivity of maternal mental health in the first 12 months of life. It moved outcomes for depressed women closer to outcomes for …

We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage …