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Differential effects by mental health status of filling the Medicare part d coverage gap
Liu, Judith; Zhang, Yuting; Kaplan, Cameron - 2020
Objective: To study how changes in insurance benefit design affect medication use of older adults with mental disorders.Data sources: US Medicare claims data from 2007 to 2018.Study Design: We focus on the gradual elimination of the Medicare prescription drug coverage gap beginning in 2011, and...
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Evidence on maternal health from two large Canadian parental leave expansions : when is enough too much?
Haeck, Catherine; Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip; … - 2016 - Revised version
Exploiting unique administrative longitudinal data sets on medical services provided to mothers before- and after- delivery, we estimate the causal effects of two major distinct parental leave reforms on maternal health outcomes, over a period of 5 years postpartum. The health outcomes are...
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The relative value of suicide prevention in health care priority setting
Andrén, Daniela; Laitila, Thomas; Ryen, Linda; … - 2023
lives by suicide prevention lower than saving lives from pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, or acute heart attack. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014441929
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Does State Spending on Mental Health Lower Suicide Rates?
Ross, Justin M.; Yakovlev, Pavel A.; Carson, Fatima - 2011
first to examine the effect of state mental health spending on suicide rates. We find the effect of per capita public mental … health expenditures on the suicide rate to be qualitatively small and lacking statistical significance. This finding holds …, divorce prevention or support, and assistance to low income individuals could be more effective at suicide prevention than …
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Drug Compliance, Co-Payment and Health Outcomes : Evidence from a Panel of Italian Patients
Atella, Vincenzo - 2010
This paper studies the relationship between medical compliance and health outcomes - hospitalization and mortality rates - using a large panel of patients residing in a local health authority in Italy. These data allow us to follow individual patients through all their accesses to public health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012717687
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The effects of becoming a physician on prescription drug use and mental health treatment
Anderson, D. Mark; Diris, Ron; Montizaan, Raymond; … - 2021
There is evidence that physicians disproportionately suffer from substance use disorder and mental health problems. It is not clear, however, whether these phenomena are causal. We use data on Dutch medical school applicants to examine the effects of becoming a physician on prescription drug use...
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Determinants of health insurance enrollment and health expenditure in Ghana : an empirical analysis
Adjei-Mantey, Kwame; Horioka, Charles - 2022
This paper analyzes the determinants of health insurance enrollment and health expenditure in Ghana using micro data from wave 7 of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS 7) with emphasis on the role of risk preferences and the availability of health facilities in one's own community, neither...
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Determinants of Health Insurance Enrollment and Health Expenditure in Ghana : An Empirical Analysis
Adjei-Mantey, Kwame; Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2022
This paper analyzes the determinants of health insurance enrollment and health expenditure in Ghana using micro data from wave 7 of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS 7) with emphasis on the role of risk preferences and the availability of health facilities in one’s own community, neither...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013297622
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A prescription for knowledge : patient information and generic substitution
Hjalmarsson, Linn; Schmid, Christian; Schreiner, Nicolas - 2024
Markets require informed participants to function efficiently. This paper examines the impact of providing targeted information directly to patients on their purchasing-decisions regarding pharmaceutical drugs. We analyze the effect of informational letters sent by a Swiss health insurer to...
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Public drug insurance and children's use of mental health medication : risk-specific responses to lower out-of-pocket treatment costs
Furzer, Jill; Isabelle, Maripier; Miloucheva, Boriana; … - 2021
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