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Crossley, Mary - 2023

Pervasive health disparities in the United States undermine both public health and social cohesion. Because of the enormity of the health care sector, government action, standing alone, is limited in its power to remedy health disparities. This Article proposes a novel approach to distributing...

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Systemic Failures in Health Care Oversight

Campbell, Julie - 2023

way physicians and hospitals interact in the U.S. healthcare system, and as a result, the traditional health care … oversight tools no longer work to ensure physician competence.With three out of four physicians now employees of hospitals or … Practitioner Data Bank (“NPDB”), the main quality control tool used to identify and weed out incompetent physicians. Hospitals …

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A Framework for Comparing Healthcare Innovation Diffusion from India

Mukherjee, Kanchan - 2023

The Indian innovation ecosystem is a vibrant space, and India has emerged as the world's third-largest startup economy. Biotechnology, Digital healthcare and Medical devices have emerged as three key sectors in the innovation ecosystem of India. However, there has been no systematic...

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Health inequality and health insurance coverage : the United States and China compared

Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A.; Shi, Xuezhu - 2023

We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two large countries that have expanded their insurance provisions in recent decades, but that lack universal coverage and differ in other social determinants of health. Using comparable health...

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Provider Payment Incentives : Evidence From The U.S. Hospice Industry

Coe, Norma B.; Rosenkranz, David A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Moral hazard and provider-induced demand may contribute to overutilization of scarce health care resources. The U.S. health care system includes several compensatory cost-containment mechanisms, but their effects depend on how patients and providers respond. We investigate hospice programs'...

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The Hidden Health Care Crisis Behind Bars : A Randomized Trial to Accredit U.S. Jails

Alsan, Marcella; Yang, Crystal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

The U.S. has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, with over seven million admissions to jails each year. Incarcerated individuals are the only group in the U.S. that have a constitutional right to receiving "reasonably adequate" health care. Yet, there is little oversight and...

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The Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 : A Ray of Hope

Jha, Shilpi - 2021

“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease.”-WHO (Constitution of the World Health Organization, 2005.) Similar, mandate was given under Article 12 the International Covenant on Economics, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966 (UN...

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Private Sector Presence in India’s Healthcare : Econometric Analysis of Patterns and Consequences

Yadav, Priyanka; Ray, Amit S - 2021

The presence of private providers in the Indian healthcare remains one of the most debated issues. This paper attempts to contribute to this debate from the angle of the ultimate goal of healthcare provision – a healthy population. We explore whether private sector presence has improved the...

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Adopting a Rights-Based Approach to Maternal Health in Nigeria : A Comparative Overview From South Africa and India

Obadina, Ibrahim - 2021

Maternal Health in Nigeria remains a major public health issue, Maternal death in Nigeria are preventable and is reflection of the lack of political and judicial indifference in the implementation and enforcement of rights to health of citizens and failure to provide adequate health...

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Does aging at home make older adults healthy : evidence from medicaid home and community-based services

Liu, Yinan; Zai, Xianhua - 2022

The Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) subsidizes long-term care to satisfy the increasing desire to age at home among older adults. The HCBS program may improve health outcomes of this population by allowing them to age-in-place, but less quality and quantity of home-based care...

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