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Joint lifetime financial, work and health decisions : thrifty and healthy enough for the long run?
Mesquida, Yannis; St.-Amour, Pascal - 2016
) adjustable exposure to morbidity and mortality risks. Using the simulated life cycle variables as benchmark, our results show …
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Does Medicare save lives?
Card, David E.; Dobkin, Carlos; Maestas, Nicole - 2007
Medicare. But do these changes matter for health? We address this question using data on over 400,000 hospital admissions for … age 65, suggesting that the severity of illness is similar for patients on either side of the Medicare threshold. The … Medicare as their primary insurer, and a reduction in the fraction with no coverage. These changes are associated with …
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The effects of physician and hospital integration on medicare beneficiaries' health outcomes
Koch, Thomas G.; Wendling, Brett W.; Wilson, Nathan E. - 2018
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Cross-section analysis of health spending with special regard to trends in Austria
Hofmarcher, Maria M. - 1999
During the 90s the increase in health spending which compared to the overall growth had taken place at a rather rapid pace experienced a worldwide slow-down. In relation to overall economic growth and the expansion of other countries' health care systems, Austria's system grew below average- a...
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Low birth weight and health expenditures from birth to late adolescence
Hummer, Michael; Lehner, Thomas; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2012
Using administrative panel data of health insurants, we estimate the effects of low birth weight on health service utilization among children and young adults between birth and 21 years old. To account for time-invariant heterogeneity of mothers, we use sibling fixed- effects estimation. We find...
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Low birth weight and health expenditures from birth to late adolescence
Hummer, Michael; Lehner, Thomas; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2012
Using administrative panel data of health insurants, we estimate the effects of low birth weight on health service utilization among children and young adults between birth and 21 years old. To account for time-invariant heterogeneity of mothers, we use sibling fixed- effects estimation. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310758
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How Are Government Hospitals Performing? A Study of Resource Management in DOH-retained Hospitals
Lavado, Rouselle F.; Sanglay-Dunleavy, Abigail Barbara; … - 2010
The paper attempts to provide an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines with particular emphasis on hospitals being managed by the DOH. The paper begins with an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines, describing the size, location, and utilization of hospital services. To...
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Dimensões do acesso a medicamentos no Brasil: Perfil e desigualdades dos gastos das famílias, segundo as pesquisas de orçamentos familiares 2002-2003 e 2008-2009
Garcia, Leila Posenato; de Magalhães, Luís Carlos Garcia - 2013
Access to medicines in Brazil can be studied using different analytical approaches. One of these approaches is the household spending on medicines, whose weight over the income of the Brazilian families is widely known. The study aims to describe the spending on medicines of the Brazilian...
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Health Care Cost Containment Measures
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2011
Using SOEP panel data and difference-in-differences methods, this study is the first to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of four different health care cost containment measures within an integrated framework. The four measures investigated were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral...
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Evolução do gasto com medicamentos do sistema único de saúde no período de 2010 a 2016
Vieira, Fabiola Sulpino - 2018
The objective of this text is to present and address the spending on medicines of the Brazilian Public Health System (SUS) from 2010 to 2016 in a budgetary perspective. The analysis was based on the budget execution of the Ministry of Health and the health departments of the states, the Federal...
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