Showing 1 - 10 of 1,954
The contraction in health care consumption at the start of the pandemic provides insight into central economic … questions of waste and productivity in the U.S. health care system. Using linked mortality and Electronic Medical Records, we …-year mortality by 29.7 deaths per 10,000 among compliers, implying that a 10% increase in health care appointments reduces mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435115
policies of providers. We find modest spillover effects in other post-acute settings and negative health impacts for only one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010709403
The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the … that high-income states in 1992 were better able to enact public health strategies and adopt behaviors that, over the next …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012661996
This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … provided at family health centers, which operate on a walk-in basis and are located within the neighborhoods in close proximity … health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337077
have a constitutional right to health care, but insurance companies that manage delivery impose restrictions on access. We …We estimate the health costs of supply-side barriers to accessing medical care. The setting is Colombia, where citizens … use administrative data on judicial claims for health as a proxy for unmet demand. We validate this using the register …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609195
We estimate doctor value-added and provide evidence on the distribution of physician quality in an entire country, combining rich population-wide register data with random assignment of patients to general practitioners (GPs). We show that there is substantial variation in the quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255868
effects are especially pronounced for men. I provide evidence that this is likely caused by changes towards adverse health … behaviours as a reaction to stress. Investigating the possible protective effects of mental health support, I find that it can … associated with mental health care. Finally, I show that my results are robust to specific departure of my identifying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137054
health care and Rajiv Aryogyasri (RAS), a health insurance scheme to cover the catastrophic health expenditure of BPL …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261013
Does the long-term economic stress of occupational decline cause health problems, or even death? This paper explores …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250922
consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311942