health improvements, which we estimate at 1.82 years of quality-adjusted life. However, these were roughly offset by … health by way of behavioral improvements and public health are possible. …

Non-adherence in health care results when a patient does not initiate or continue care that a provider has recommended …. Previous research identifies non-adherence as a major source of waste in US health care, totaling approximately 2.3% of GDP …, and have proposed a plethora of interventions to raise adherence. However, health economics provides little explicit …

In June 2009, the World Health Organization declared that novel influenza A (nH1N1) had reached pandemic status … worldwide. The response to the spread of this virus by the public and by the public health community was immediate and …, used by public health officials to aid in making many decisions including vaccination policy, ignore avoidance responses in …

help explain these variations, we devise a general test for misallocation in input choices - the underuse of effective … is spent, rather than how much money is spent, is central to understanding productivity differences both in health care …

behavior, and patient health. Every dollar Medicare spent on monitoring generated $24-29 in government savings. The majority of … the health of the marginal patient is harmed, indicating that monitoring primarily deters low-value care. Monitoring does …