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Health care centralization : the health impacts of obstetric unit closures in the US

Fischer, Stefanie; Royer, Heather; White, Corey D. - 2023

Over the last few decades, health care services in the United States have become more geographically centralized. We study how the loss of hospital-based obstetric units in over 400 counties affect maternal and infant health via a difference-in-differences design. We find that closures lead...

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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation : medical care and public health interventions in early childhood may improve human capital accumulation as well as child health

Daysal, N. Meltem - 2015

Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...

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Prenatal care utilization and infant health in Botswana

Mmopelwa, David - 2019

Despite the freely and publicly provided health care in Botswana, the proportion of low birth weight infants increased from 8% to 13% during 2000-2007 period. The latter rate was among the highest in the WHO African region and upper middle-income countries and may question the effectiveness of...

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Maternal and Child Health in Turkey Through the Health Transformation Program (2003-2008)

Aran, Meltem A.; Aktakke, Nazli; Gurol-Urganci, Ipek; … - 2015

Improving maternal and child health outcomes is a major development objective. Targets related to these outcomes were included in the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals and they continue to galvanize global support through the Sustainable Development Goals (under Goal 3 health...

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Rwanda's Health System and Sickness Insurance Schemes

Musango, Laurent; Butera, Jean Damascène; Inyarubuga, … - 2009

After the war and the 1994 genocide, Rwanda drew up a national health policy with a view to realigning its health …

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Restoring Freedom of Contract between Doctor and Patient in Medicare Part B

Bernstein, David E - 2015

Despite promises that Medicare would not interfere with patients' ability to choose their physician and to purchase additional health coverage on the open market, over the decades Medicare rules and regulations have gradually eroded senior citizens' ability to control their healthcare choices....

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Who Wants to Work in a Rural Health Post? The Role of Intrinsic Motivation, Rural Background and Faith-Based Institutions in Rwanda and Ethiopia

Serneels, Pieter M. - 2010

of 412 nursing and medical students in Rwanda, this paper examines the determinants of future health workers' willingness …. The main Rwanda result for intrinsic motivation is strikingly similar to that obtained for Ethiopia and Rwanda together …

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The Effects of the Performance Based Financing (PBF) on Health Institutions Performance in Rwanda

Nkundabatware, Jean Damascene - 2019

Health Institutions in Rwanda are facing with various difficulties related to the responses they must reserve the needs … are still raising, rewashing and are felt in different health centers (HC) in Rwanda. Thus, the present study of the … effects of the Performance Based Financing (PBF) on health institutions performance in Rwanda, case Rwamagana District Health …

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How do low-income enrollees in the affordable care act marketplaces respond to cost sharing?

Lavetti, Kurt; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2023

The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to offer cost sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the Marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the actuarial value of CSR...

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Opt out or top up? : voluntary healthcare insurance and the public vs. private substitution

Fabbri, Daniele; Monfardini, Chiara - 2011

We investigate whether people enrolled into voluntary health insurance (VHI) substitute public consumption with private (opt out) or just enlarge their private consumption, without reducing reliance upon public provisions (top up). We study the case of Italy, where a mixed insurance system is in...

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