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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 measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337077
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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 - 2015
This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015025
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C-sections, obesity, and health-care specialization : evidence from Mexico
Herrera, Catalina; Marquez-Padilla, Fernanda; Prina, Silvia - 2023
This study explores whether hospitals with higher increases in obesity levels have higher CS rates and the … consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of … specialization. And it creates a measure of hospital-level obesity, based on the fraction of obesity-related discharges for women of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311942
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Autarchy, market disintegration, and health : the mortality and nutritional crisis in Nazi Germany, 1933-1937
Baten, Jörg; Wagner, Andrea - 2002
We compare trends in mortality, nutritional status and food supply to other living standard indicators for the early years of the Nazi period. We find that Germany experienced a substantial increase in mortality rates in most age groups in the mid-1930s, even relative to those of 1932, the worst...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511113
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The Value of Mortality Risk Reductions. Pure Altruism - A Confounder?
Gyrd-Hansen, Dorte - 2017
This paper examines public valuations of mortality risk reductions. We set up a theoretical framework that allows for altruistic preferences, and subsequently test theoretical predictions through the design of a discrete choice experiment. By varying the tax scenario (uniform versus individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963533
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The Mortality Cost of Expenditures
Viscusi, W. Kip - 2020
This paper updates the mortality cost of expenditures. Because changes in income lead to changes in mortality risk, regulatory expenditures costing more per life saved than a threshold cost-per-life saved cutoff level are expected to increase mortality risk. This article discusses the mechanisms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834407
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Death by Regulation : How Regulations Can Increase Mortality Risk
Broughel, James - 2017
the Medicaid public insurance program in the first few years of the 21st century, an early version of the “travel ban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942209
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Death by Regulation : How Regulations Can Increase Mortality Risk
Broughel, James - 2018
the Medicaid public insurance program in the first few years of the 21st century, an early version of the “travel ban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920555
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Autarchy, Market Disintegration, and Health : The Mortality and Nutritional Crisis in Nazi Germany, 1933-1937
Baten, Jörg; Wagner, Andrea - 2021
We compare trends in mortality, nutritional status and food supply to other living standard indicators for the early years of the Nazi period. We find that Germany experienced a substantial increase in mortality rates in most age groups in the mid-1930s, even relative to those of 1932, the worst...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320344
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Valuing Mortality Risk Reductions in Global Benefit‐Cost Analysis
Robinson, Lisa A.; Hammitt, James K.; O'Keeffe, Lucy - 2022
The estimates used to value mortality risk reductions are a major determinant of the benefits of many public health and environmental policies. These estimates (typically expressed as the value per statistical life, VSL) describe the willingness of those affected by a policy to exchange their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013307486