We evaluate the effects of home visiting targeted towards disadvantaged first-time mothers on maternal and child health … administrative health data. In a context in which the target group has comprehensive health care access, we find that home visiting … has no effects on most types of health utilization, health behaviors, and physical health measures. However, the …

vaccinations was upgraded in 2007 within the scope of the reform of the health system. The reimbursement of patients' vaccination …Introduction: Prophylactic vaccinations play a significant role in health care. As a relatively cost … evaluate to what extent the health insurance companies promote the increasing of vaccination coverage rate today and what …

-theoretical model of HBV dynamics that incorporates government-provided vaccination at birth coupled with voluntary vaccinations of … vaccination program for newborns, a significant number of susceptible adults and teens remain. In this paper, we analyze a game … susceptible adults and teens. We show that the optimal voluntary vaccination brings the disease incidence to very low levels. This …

individual-level information on childhood vaccinations. I define a treatment group of children affected by the outbreak, and …This paper explores the effects of a measles outbreak on vaccination uptake in Austria, using administrative data with … compare them with a control group of earlier-born children who are unaffected. Twelve months after the outbreak, the …

challenge of encouraging vaccination more urgent than ever. We present a large field experiment (N=47,306) testing 19 nudges … messages sent prior to a primary care visit can boost vaccination rates by an average of 5%. Overall, interventions performed …