impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where … contributing to these health gains …

Background: Significant health expenses can force households to reduce consumption of items required for daily living … of out-of-pocket (OOP) and other health expenses have typically characterized them as “catastrophic” in terms of a … threshold level or percentage of household income. We aim to re-conceptualize the impact of health expenses on household …

impact of changes within a program, the Danish nurse home visiting program, on child and maternal health. We exploit … contacts to health professionals in the first four years after birth. Forgoing an early nurse visit also increases the … probability of maternal contacts to mental health specialists in the first four years after childbirth. We highlight two potential …

This paper investigates whether minimum wage increases impact worker health in the United States. We consider self …-reported measures of general, mental, and physical health. We use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993 to 2014 Behavioral Risk … Factor Surveillance Survey. Among men, we find no evidence that minimum wage increases improve health; instead, we find that …

Trade in health products has been flourishing in recent years as the demand for better health has been growing … throughout the world. At the same time, trade in health products is hampered by substantive trade barriers. In this paper, we … availability of health-related products such as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and medical equipment. The case for liberalizing trade …

study how a wave of mergers that led to the shutdown of one third of all Swedish maternity wards affected the health of … Sweden over two decades, we show that the closures negatively affected the health of mothers, while effects on infant health …

In Germany, private health insurance covers more innovative and costly treatments than public insurance. Moreover … whether these superior features of private insurance actually transfer into better health. I focus on German adolescents who … of euros could be saved by aligning private and public health insurance …

the 2007 fee exemption policy as a natural experiment. In an era where UHC and health equity are at the center of the post …

VLBW cutoff have better short- and long-term health, and higher math test scores in 9th grade. We next investigate … spillover effects on siblings and find no evidence of an impact on their health outcomes. However, we find substantial positive …

based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) to assess their impact on self-assessed health status and on the use of health care …' perceived health and their access to a number of health services. Results suggest that the introduction of market incentives via … a fixed-price payment system does not lead to worst health perceptions. Instead, the reform marked a moderate decrease …