This is the first paper to investigate the determinants of the demand for medical care in the People's Republic of … characteristics and work conditions impact the demand for medical care. Income elasticity is around 0.3, indicating medical care is a … necessity. Medical care demand is price inelastic, and price elasticity is larger in absolute value for poorer households …

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) increased demand for healthcare across the U.S., but it is unclear … if or how the supply side has responded to meet this demand. In this paper, we take advantage of plausibly exogenous … geographical heterogeneity in the ACA to examine the healthcare education sector's response to increased demand for healthcare …

quality of care. It also touches on issues related to insurance and the demand for health care. The paper argues that long …

paper, we examine demand for health information on the Internet. We find that individuals in poor health are more likely … professionals are more likely to turn to the Internet for health information. Our findings indicate that demand for consumer health …

migration of Medicare patients to separate the role of demand and supply factors. Our approach allows us to account for demand … in utilization is attributable to patient demand, with the remainder due to place-specific supply factors. Demand …

patients may affect other patient groups. This paper examines how marginal shifts in the demand for services among the adult …I provide a simple theoretical framework for understanding how changes in the demand for care among adults under 65 may … affect Medicare spending. I then examine how two demand factors-recent coverage eligibility changes for parents and the firm …

who can diagnose autism, these workers cannot induce their own demand. If the incidence of autism is increasing … independently of other mental disorders, then the demand for auxiliary health providers should increase, leading to higher wages and …

The overuse of medical services including antibiotics is often blamed on Physician Induced Demand. But since this …