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The value of socialized medicine : the impact of universal primary healthcare provision on birth and mortality rates in Turkey

Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pınar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; … - 2015

This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … physician, who offers a wide range of primary healthcare services that are free-of-charge. Furthermore, these services are …

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Heterogeneous effects of medical interventions on the health of low-risk newborns

Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; Ewijk, Reyn van - 2016

We investigate the impact of early-life medical interventions on low-risk newborn health. A policy rule in The Netherlands creates large discontinuities in medical treatments at gestational week 37. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find no health benefits from additional treatments...

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Rising geographic disparities in US mortality

Couillard, Benjamin K.; Foote, Christopher L.; Gandhi, … - 2021 - This version: September 2021

The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply because states such as New York or California benefited...

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Life, Death, and Medicare Fraud : The Corruption of Hospice and What the Private Public Partnership Under the Federal False Claims Act is Doing About It

Barger, James - 2016

Once a humble, beloved, charity-based arm of the healthcare industry, hospice is now a multi-billion dollar industry …

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Patients whose GP knows complementary medicine tend to have lower costs and live longer

Kooreman, Peter; Baars, Erik W. - 2011

used containing quarterly information on healthcare costs (care by general practitioner (GP), hospital care, pharmaceutical … percent lower healthcare costs and mortality rates, depending on age groups and type of CAM. The lower costs result from fewer …. -- healthcare costs ; life expectancy ; complementary medicine …

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Conjugal Bereavement Effects on Health and Mortality at Advanced Ages

van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2007

We specify a model for the lifetimes of spouses and the dynamic evolution of health, allowing spousal death to have causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We estimate the model using a longitudinal survey that traces many health status aspects over time, and that is linked...

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Medical progress, demand for health care, and economic performance

Frankovic, Ivan; Kuhn, Michael; Wrzaczek, Stefan - 2017

We study medical progress within an economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous mortality. Individuals demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We characterise the individual optimum and the general equilibrium of the economy and study the impact...

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Does uninsurance affect the health outcomes of the insured? : evidence from heart attack patients in California

Daysal, N. Meltem - 2012

In this paper, I examine the impact of uninsured patients on the health of the insured, focusing on one health outcome - the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and hospital financial data from California (1999-2006). My...

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The right to health and the health effects of denials

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021

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...

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Does Uninsurance Affect the Health Outcomes of the Insured? Evidence from Heart Attack Patients in California

Daysal, N. Meltem - 2012

In this paper, I examine the impact of uninsured patients on the health of the insured, focusing on one health outcome | the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and hospital financial data from California (1999-2006). My...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014171368

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