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Does universalization of healthwork? : evidence from health systems restructuring and expansion in Brazil
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2019
We investigate universalization of access to health in Brazil. We find large reductions in maternal, foetal, neonatal and post-neonatal mortality, a reduction in fertility and, possibly on account of selection, no change in the quality of births. Using rich administrative data, we investigate...
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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
measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337077
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The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on the Health System in Turkey and Infant, Child, and Elderly Mortality Among Natives
Aygün, Aysun - 2020
As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health … infrastructure in Turkey and on natives' mortality—with a focus on infant, child, and elderly mortality.Our OLS results yield … refugees put on the health care services in Turkey, as well as the government's response, to understand our findings on …
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The effect of hosting 3.4 million refugees on the health system in Turkey and infant, child, and elderly mortality among natives
Aygün, Aysun; Kirdar, Murat G.; Tuncay, Berna - 2020
As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health … infrastructure in Turkey and on natives' mortality - with a focus on infant, child, and elderly mortality. Our OLS results yield … refugees put on the health care services in Turkey, as well as the government's response, to understand our findings on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012267912
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The effect of hosting 3.4 million refugees on the health system in Turkey and infant, child, and elderly mortality among natives
Aygün, Aysun; Kirdar, Murat G.; Tuncay, Berna - 2020
As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health … infrastructure in Turkey and on natives' mortality - with a focus on infant, child, and elderly mortality. Our OLS results yield … refugees put on the health care services in Turkey, as well as the government's response, to understand our findings on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271501
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Returns to childbirth technologies : evidence from preterm births
Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; Ewijk, Reyn van - 2013
We investigate the impact of obstetrician supervision, as opposed to midwife supervision, on the short-term health of low-risk newborns. We exploit a unique policy rule in the Netherlands that creates a large discontinuity in the probability of a low-risk birth being attended by an obstetrician...
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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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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2013
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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Local Government and Community Leaders’ Perspectives on Child Health and Mortality and Inequity Issues in Rural Eastern Indonesia
Pardosi, Jerico - 2016
Since 2001 a decentralisation policy has increased the responsibility placed on local government for improving child health in Indonesia. This paper explores local government and community leaders' perspectives on child health in a rural district in Indonesia, using a qualitative approach. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992713
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Air pollution and infant mortality: A natural experiment from power plant desulfurization
Luechinger, Simon - In: Journal of Health Economics 37 (2014) C, pp. 219-231
The paper estimates the effect of SO2 pollution on infant mortality in Germany, 1985–2003. To avoid endogeneity problems, I exploit the natural experiment created by the mandated desulfurization at power plants and power plants’ location and prevailing wind directions, which together...
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