Search Results - subject:"Healthcare Utilization"

Obesity and health expenditures: Evidence from Australia

Buchmueller, Thomas C.; Johar, Meliyanni - In: Economics & Human Biology 17 (2015) C, pp. 42-58

Rising rates of obesity are a public health concern in every industrialized country. This study investigates the relationship between obesity and health care expenditure in Australia, where the rate of obesity has tripled in the last three decades. Now one in four Australians is considered...

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Have health insurance reforms in Tunisia attained their intended objectives?

Makhloufi, Khaled; Ventelou, Bruno; Abu-Zaineh, Mohammad - In: International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 15 (2015) 1, pp. 29-51

<Para ID="Par1">A growing number of developing countries are currently promoting health system reforms with the aim of attaining ‘ universal health coverage’ (UHC). In Tunisia, several reforms have been undertaken over the last two decades to attain UHC with the goals of ensuring financial protection in...</para>

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Have health insurance reforms in Tunisia attained their intended objectives?

Makhloufi, Khaled; Ventelou, Bruno; Abu-Zaineh, Mohammad - In: International journal of health economics and management 15 (2015) 1, pp. 29-51

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Determinantes das desigualdades na utilização de serviços de saúde : análise para o Brasil e regiões

Cambota, Jacqueline Nogueira; Rocha, Fabiana - In: Pesquisa e planejamento econômico : PPE 45 (2015) 2, pp. 219-243

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Increasing maternal healthcare use in Rwanda: Implications for child nutrition and survival

Pierce, Hayley; Heaton, Tim B.; Hoffmann, John - In: Social Science & Medicine 107 (2014) C, pp. 61-67

Rwanda has made great progress in improving maternal utilization of health care through coordination of external aid and more efficient health policy. Using data from the 2005 and 2010 Rwandan Demographic and Health Surveys, we examine three related questions regarding the impact of expansion of...

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Disparities in Healthcare Utilization in China: Do Gender and Migration Status Matter?

Fan, Jessie; Wen, Ming; Jin, Lei; Wang, Guixin - In: Journal of Family and Economic Issues 34 (2013) 1, pp. 52-63

gender-migration status and healthcare utilization while controlling for predisposing, enabling and needs factors. Other … things equal, female migrants and male locals had significantly lower actual healthcare utilization rates, compared to female … likely to report “self-medication” as a reason. Considering established gender differences in healthcare utilization, we …

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Recessions and seniors’ health, health behaviors, and healthcare use: Analysis of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey

McInerney, Melissa; Mellor, Jennifer M. - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 5, pp. 744-751

A number of studies report that U.S. state mortality rates, particularly for the elderly, decline during economic downturns. Further, several prior studies use microdata to show that as state unemployment rates rise, physical health improves, unhealthy behaviors decrease, and medical care use...

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Relationship of anxiety, depression and alcohol use disorders to persistent high utilization and potentially problematic under-utilization of primary medical care

Ford, Julian D.; Trestman, Robert L.; Tennen, Howard; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 61 (2005) 7, pp. 1618-1625

Psychiatric disorders in primary medical care are prevalent, frequently undetected, under-treated, and costly. Studies report that psychiatric disorders are associated with high utilization of healthcare, but the stability of high utilization has not been systematically examined. Medical records...

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The Effects of Resigning GPs on Patient Healthcare Utilization and Some Implications for Health

Monsees, Daniel; Westphal, Matthias - In: Health Economics 34, 5, pp. 932-955

ABSTRACT We study the effects of general practitioners' (GPs') resignations on their patients' healthcare utilization …

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