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The failed history of quarantines, and its implications for public health
Sabhlok, Sanjeev; Frijters, Paul; Foster, Gigi; … - 2024
This paper reviews the history of the practice of quarantines, rediscovering the 19th century 'Sanitarian' movement in Britain that sprang from a recognition that quarantines had failed to stop the spread of diseases and were not cost-effective. To our knowledge, the key figure among the...
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Did the ACA Medicaid Expansion save lives?
Borgschulte, Mark; Vogler, Jacob - 2019
We estimate the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on county-level mortality in the first four years … following expansion. We find a reduction in all-cause mortality in ages 20 to 64 equaling 11.36 deaths per 100,000 individuals … the improvement in welfare due to mortality responses may offset the entire net-of-transfers expenditure associated with …
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State-Level Healthcare Spending and Health Outcomes : An Application of Spatial Durbin Panel Approach to Mortality
Bose, Srimoyee - 2015
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Geographic variation in inpatient care utilization, outcomes and costs for dementia patients in China
Lin, Zhuoer; Ba, Fang; Allore, Heather; Liu, Gordon G.; … - 2022
Dementia leads public health issue worldwide. China has the largest population of adults living with dementia in the world, imposing increasing burdens on the public health and healthcare systems. Despite improved access to health services, inadequate and uneven dementia management remains...
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Geographic variation in inpatient care utilization, outcomes and costs for dementia patients in China
Lin, Zhuoer; Ba, Fang; Allore, Heather; Liu, Gordon G.; … - 2022
Dementia leads public health issue worldwide. China has the largest population of adults living with dementia in the world, imposing increasing burdens on the public health and healthcare systems. Despite improved access to health services, inadequate and uneven dementia management remains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013449379
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Human resources for health and health outcomes : panel data analysis
Kureková, Lucie; Hejdukova, Pavlína; Komárková, Lenka - In: Prague economic papers : a bimonthly journal of … 32 (2023) 2, pp. 205-224
This study aims to evaluate the effects of selected key factors on health outcomes. Unfortunately, statistical reporting in this field is not harmonized, and in some countries it is completely absent. For this reason, valuable information for health determinant analysis may be lacking or...
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Does your doctor matter? : doctor quality and patient outcomes
Ginja, Rita; Riise Kolstad, Julie; Willage, Barton; … - 2022
there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients' post-assignment mortality, in the … point decline in a patient's two-year mortality risk. While we find evidence of observable doctor characteristics and …
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Effects of the World Bank's Maternal and Child Health Intervention on Indonesia's Poor : Evaluating the Safe Motherhood Project
Baird, John; Ma, Steven; Prah Ruger, Jennifer - 2011
statistically significantly associated with a net beneficial change in under-five mortality, but not with infant mortality, total …. Unemployment and the pupileteacher ratio were statistically significantly associated with infant mortality and percentage … associated with under-five mortality. Clinically relevant changes (52-68% increase in the percentage of deliveries overseen by …
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Envisioning a Free Market in Health Care
Schansberg, Eric - 2013
Although President Obama and the Democratic Congress were able to pass landmark health legislation, their efforts to reform health care ran into predictable political roadblocks. In a severe recession, taxing business and labor is obviously not helpful to economic recovery. Moreover, an array of...
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Closing the Gap : The Impact of the Medicaid Primary Care Rate Increase on Access and Health
Alexander, Diane; Schnell, Molly - 2020
The difficulties that Medicaid beneficiaries face accessing medical care are often attributed to the program’s low reimbursement rates relative to other payers. There is little evidence, however, as to the actual effects of Medicaid payment rates for providers on access and health...
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