lead households to rely on traditional as opposed to modern health providers, and within modern providers, on faith … traditional healers for specific health issues that they encounter. As to the choice between modern providers, faith … individuals, communities and the healthcare system. Their approach and services thus helps in expanding options for care …

The main objective of this paper is to analyze trade flows and tariff policies of health products. Compared to previous … studies, we not only focus on medicines, but on a large set of products that enter the public health space and can be … identified in the common trade classification. The first contribution is thus to construct three groups of health products based …

This paper examines satisfaction with various aspects of health care by type of health plan among three groups of … health-plan enrollees: those with a consumer-driven health plan (CDHP), those with a high-deductible health plan (HDHP), and … in Health Care Survey, an online survey that examines issues surrounding consumer-directed health care, including the …

Malaria kills about 1,500 children every day. Based on the Demographic and Health Surveys, we examine malaria treatment … practices of various health care providers in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 90 percent of the world’s deaths due to … malaria occur. To assess the quality of each health care provider (including, among others, public health centers and …

We study variation in healthcare utilization across geographies and socioeconomic groups in Hungary. Exploiting … migration across geographic regions and relying on high-quality administrative data on healthcare use and income we show that … results suggest that access to healthcare varies especially for low-income people even in a context with universal coverage. …

Self-selection into healthcare options biases estimates of the effects of healthcare on health outcomes. We exploit … treatment and adhere to their medications. -- healthcare ; information ; child health ; Tanzania … exogenous variation in the cost of formal-sector care to show that the use of such care improves short-term health outcomes for …

People in Canada and the U.S. often make claims regarding whose country has a better health system. Several researchers … have attempted to address this question by analysing subjective health in the two countries, thus assuming a common … definition of “good” health. Using data from the Joint Canada/U.S. Survey of Health, I generate quasi-objective health indices …

the structure of health care and health insurance in America -- and consequently on patients and health-care providers … Act (ACA), former President Obama's signature health insurance law. His very first executive order, signed within hours of … this fundamental policy shift affect the U.S. health care and health insurance systems? Those questions were explored by a …

Medical utilization, such as a count of hospitalizations, is routinely used as a health proxy for both policy and … or policy changes have altered hospitalizations at the same level of health. In this work, we document how … hospitalizations have evolved as a marker for subsequent health (mortality and morbidity) and subsequent utilization (hospitalizations …

This Article examines state constitutions and health care rights. Notably, close to a third of states' constitutions … recognize health while the U.S. Constitution contains no reference. Ample scholarly commentary exists on the absence of a right … to health care under the U.S. Constitution but little attention has been paid to state constitutional law. This Article …