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Encouraging Preventative Care to Manage Chronic Disease at Scale
Boone, Claire E.; Celhay, Pablo A.; Gertler, Paul J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study how reminding high-risk patients with chronic disease of their upcoming primary care appointments impacts their health care and behaviors. We leverage a natural experiment in Chile's public healthcare system that sent reminders before preventative care appointments to over 300,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337875
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Estimating the effect of individual time preferences on the use of disease screening
Bradford, W. David; Zoller, James; Silvestri, Gerard A. - In: Southern economic journal 76 (2010) 4, pp. 1005-1031
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702338
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The causal effect of education on health : what is the role of health behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2011
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009376059
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The causal effect of education on health : what is the role of health behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nichole; … - 2011
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344838
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The causal effect of education on health : what is the role of health behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2011
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects:while in the former only current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009685476
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Reminder design and childhood vaccination coverage
Hirani, Jonas Cuzulan; Wüst, Miriam - 2023
A major policy concern across public vaccination programs is non-compliance. Exploiting Danish population data and three national reforms in regression discontinuity designs, we document the effects of reminders for childhood vaccination coverage. Retrospective reminders are primarily effective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013499619
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Addressing vaccine hesitancy using local ambassadors : a randomized controlled trial in Indonesia
Islam, Asad; Kusnadi, Gita; Rezki, Jahen Fachrul; Sim, … - 2023
In settings where resistance and rampant misinformation against vaccines exist, the prospect of containing infectious diseases remains a challenge. Can delivery of information regarding the benefits of vaccination through personal home visits by local ambassadors increase vaccine uptake? We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500726
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The causal effect of education on health : what is the role of health behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009504191
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Quality and quantity in primary care mixed payment models : evidence from family health organizations in Ontario
Kantarevic, Jasmin; Kralj, Boris - 2011
physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of administrative data that covers one year before and two years after the FHO model … was introduced in 2007, we find that physicians in the FHO model provide about 6 percent fewer services and visits per day … immunizations, pap smears, and mammograms compared to physicians in the FHG model. These results are largely consistent with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307981
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Quality and Quantity in Primary Care Mixed Payment Models : Evidence from Family Health Organizations in Ontario
Kantarevic, Jasmin - 2011
physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of administrative data that covers one year before and two years after the FHO model … was introduced in 2007, we find that physicians in the FHO model provide about 6 percent fewer services and visits per day … immunizations, pap smears, and mammograms compared to physicians in the FHG model. These results are largely consistent with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123604