The Medicaid Home and Community- Based Services (HCBS) program in the United States subsidizes the long-term care provided at home or in community-based settings for older adults. Little is known about how HCBS affects the well-being of the aging population. Using detailed information about...

Significant opportunities for global health intelligence arise from the combined and optimized usage of secondary data indicating health status. Meant for purposes other than those intended by reuse, these data are gathered from novel sources such as mobile apps, wearable devices, the world wide...

The utilization of healthcare services serves as a barometer for current and future health outcomes. Even in countries with modern healthcare IT infrastructure, however, fragmentation and interoperability issues hinder the (short-term) monitoring of utilization, forcing policymakers to rely on...

Poverty and poor health outcomes are interrelated. To improve Native American health outcomes, federal and tribal officials should remove barriers to economic growth, thus alleviating poverty and resulting in a healthier Native American population. Policymakers should look for opportunities to...

For decades, Native Americans have experienced a shorter life expectancy and worse health outcomes than have other Americans. This paper examines some of the causes behind these outcomes and potential ways to improve them. A majority of Native Americans use the Indian Health Service (IHS), a...

To improve Native American health outcomes, the Indian Health Service (IHS) requires institutional reforms to resolve many of its pervasive management problems. Long-term solutions must focus on institutional reforms that (a) align the incentives of IHS workers with improved performance and (b)...

To improve Native American health outcomes, Congress should increase funding for the Indian Health Service (IHS) to deliver more healthcare to more individuals. In addition to more funding, Congress should consider advance appropriation authority for the IHS, which it has already done for the...

One of the most effective ways to improve Native American health outcomes is to increase the supply of healthcare. In both the IHS and the wider sector of healthcare, policymakers could relax the policies that limit the supply of healthcare services, which would allow innovators to find new and...

The 2014 Medicaid expansion excluded Americans over 65, but they could still be affected via spillover effects. Using Medicare administrative data, we test for spillovers in Medicaid coverage and Medicare spending among Medicare beneficiaries. We analyse two separate birth cohorts: those under...

Over the year’s countries have experienced a rapid rise in ageing population. With increase in elderly population there has been a significant financial impact forced onto government healthcare institutions. Studies in the past have already stressed on this issue providing alternative...