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Increasing Coverage of Antiretroviral Therapy and Male Medical Circumcision in HIV Hyperendemic Countries : A Cost-Benefit Analysis

Geldsetzer, Pascal - 2015

HIV continues to cause the largest number of disability-adjusted life years of any disease in HIV hyperendemic countries (i.e., countries with an adult HIV prevalence 15%). We compare the benefits and costs of two proven biological interventions to reduce the health losses due to the HIV...

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Impact of China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Expenditure

Liu, Hong - 2012

In 2007, China launched a subsidized voluntary public health insurance program, the Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance, for urban residents without formal employment, including children, the elderly, and other unemployed urban residents. We estimate the impact of this program on health care...

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Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2014

This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries in health outcomes, using data on life expectancy at age 65, over the period 1960 to 2007. We estimate a production function where life expectancy depends on health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and...

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Changes in Healthcare Utilization, Spending, and Perceived Health During Covid–19 : A Longitudinal Study from Singapore

Ahn, SangNam - 2020

The COVID–19 pandemic has challenged the capacity of healthcare systems around the world and can potentially compromise healthcare utilization and health outcomes among non-COVID–19 patients. Using monthly panel data of nationally representative middle-aged and older Singaporeans, we...

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Re-Examining Supplier-Induced Demand in Health Care : Comparisons Among Patients Affiliated and Not Affiliated with Healthcare Professionals in China

Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Chen, Xi - 2021

Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. This study used coarsened exact matching to test the hypothesis of supplier-induced demand (SID) by comparing health care utilization and expenditures between patients affiliated with healthcare...

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For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs in Health Behavior

Conti, Gabriella; GIUSTINELLI, PAMELA - 2023

We provide a framework to disentangle preferences and beliefs in health behavior and apply it to lockdown compliance in the UK. We estimate a model of compliance choice with uncertain costs and benefits to quantify utility tradeoffs, decompose group differences in compliance, and compute...

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Hospital Closures and Short-Run Change in Ambulance Call Times

Chaudhary, Sookti - 2019

We measure one aspect of how access to emergency care through ambulance services changes for patients when a hospital … period immediately after the hospital closes. We find urban patients in zip codes where a hospital closes have a small change … to transport a patient from the location of the incident to the hospital. The impact on rural Medicare-eligible patients …

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Staff Engagement, Job Complementarity and Labour Supply : Evidence from the English NHS Hospital Workforce

Moscelli, Giuseppe; Sayli, Melisa; Mello, Marco - 2022

We investigate the relationship among staff engagement, job complementarities and labour supply in the hospital sector …' retention of 0.16 and 0.2, respectively within the hospital and the NHS. Estimates of unconditional quantile regressions confirm …

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Do Non-Monetary Interventions Improve Staff Retention? Evidence from English NHS Hospitals

Sayli, Melisa; Moscelli, Giuseppe; Blanden, Jo; Bojke, Chris - 2022

decreased exits from the public hospital sector. Our results indicate that a light-touch intervention can shift management … behavior and improve hospital workforce turnover. These findings are important in sectors affected by labor supply shortages …

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The Effects of Immigration on NHS Waiting Times

Giuntella, Osea - 2015

. Linking administrative records from the Hospital Episode Statistics (2003-2012) with immigration data drawn from the UK Labour …

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