Download or read book Essays in Political Economy and Health Economics written by Raphael Godefroy and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Health Economics and Political Economy written by Sarah Beate Eichmeyer and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores various topics in public and health economics and political economy. It studies pathways into deep poverty, substance use disorders, and homelessness, as well as the influence of social media use on societal outcomes. The first chapter is coauthored with Christina Kent and is concerned with family formation among low-income populations. Pregnancy and new parenthood mark formative periods that can influence the social, emotional and economic lives of parents profoundly. In this chapter, we map out how these events shape the living conditions of women with low incomes, focusing on housing stability (including homelessness), social assistance use, mental health, and crime. We use panel data consisting of administrative records from all residents of a large urban US county. Our sample encompasses all births to women of low SES in the county. For identification, we leverage an event study design around pregnancy. We further employ two dynamic difference-in-difference designs: One compares the outcomes of women who do vs. do not experience miscarriages, and one compares the outcomes across events for women who first experience a miscarriage, followed by a live birth in the subsequent years. We find that new parenthood is associated with large, 15-30 percentage point increases in the uptake of Medicaid, SNAP and TANF benefits, with a 44% increase in movement into public housing (on a base of 4% pre-pregnancy), persistent increases in homelessness encounters (30-50%), large reductions in criminal behavior, and short-term increases in treatments of substance use disorder. The second chapter is coauthored with Jonathan Zhang and investigates how physician opioid-prescribing behavior impacts patient outcomes and behavior. In the past two decades, death rates from opioids have seen a fivefold increase and opioid prescribing has emerged as a leading public health problem in the United States. Clinical guidelines leave many opioid prescribing decisions to physician judgement; we study the extent to which a single opioid prescription in an emergency department, for these marginal cases, can induce long-term dependence and impact health and economic outcomes of a patient. We tackle these questions by leveraging quasi-random assignment of patients to physicians, who vary in their propensity to prescribe opioids. We analyze the universe of electronic health record data for a particularly vulnerable population-- veterans--and find that a single opioid prescription can have strong adverse effects on a veteran's long-term outcomes. A single opioid prescription induces a 1.2 percentage point (pp) increase in the probability of long-term prescription opioid use, a 0.34pp increase in development of an opioid use disorder, and a 0.075pp increase in opioid overdose mortality. We find suggestive evidence of both use of and death by heroin and synthetic opioids. Moreover, in settings where the supply of legal prescription opioids is restricted, veterans are more likely to resort to illicit opioids, highlighting the complex interdependencies between legal and illicit sources of opioid supply. The third chapter, also coauthored with Jonathan Zhang, builds on the first chapter by expanding into the primary care setting and the broader effects of having a high opioid-prescribing primary care provider (PCP). Primary care is the most frequently utilized health service and is the source for nearly half of all opioids prescribed in the United States. This chapter studies the impact of exposure to high prescribing primary care providers (PCP) on opioid abuse, and physical and mental health among veterans. Using over two decades of electronic health records, we exploit variation in opioid prescribing tendency across providers in the same facility, in conjunction with quasi-random assignment of providers to new patients. We find that assignment to a PCP who prescribes opioids at a 3 percentage point (pp) higher rate (equivalent to the difference between a 90th and 10th percentile prescriber within a facility) is associated with an increase in the probability of long-term opioid use by 0.72pp, development of an opioid use disorder by 0.12pp, and five-year opioid overdose mortality by 0.008pp. Veterans' mental health deteriorates; the three-year likelihood of attempted suicide or self-harm increases by 0.023pp and depression diagnosis increases by 0.18pp. Investigating into the mechanisms, we find evidence consistent with high opioid prescribers being less likely to refer patients to alternative pain management, adhere to clinical recommendations on naloxone distribution, or refer patients to substance use disorder treatment. The final chapter is coauthored with Hunt Allcott, Luca Braghieri, and Matthew Gentzkow and evaluates social media's influence on society. The rise of social media has provoked both optimism about potential societal benefits and concern about harms such as addiction, depression, and political polarization. In a randomized experiment, we find that deactivating Facebook for the four weeks before the 2018 US midterm election (i) reduced online activity, while increasing offline activities such as watching TV alone and socializing with family and friends; (ii) reduced both factual news knowledge and political polarization; (iii) increased subjective well-being; and (iv) caused a large persistent reduction in post-experiment Facebook use. Deactivation reduced post-experiment valuations of Facebook, suggesting that traditional metrics may overstate consumer surplus.
Download or read book Essays in the Economics of Health and Medical Care written by Victor R. Fuchs and published by New York : National Bureau of Economic Research distributed by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays on the economics of health and health services in the USA - covers supply and demand, budgetary resources, cost and objectives with regard to medical care, and considers wages and income distribution among medical personnel, effects of health care on labour productivity, etc. References and statistical tables.
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Health and Healthcare written by David Primrose and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a comprehensive and critical overview of the gamut of contemporary issues around health and healthcare from a political economy perspective. Its contributions present a unique challenge to prevailing economic accounts of health and healthcare, which narrowly focus on individual behaviour and market processes. Instead, the capacity of the human body to reach its full potential and the ability of society to prevent disease and cure illness are demonstrated to be shaped by a broader array of political economic processes. The material conditions in which societies produce, distribute, exchange, consume, and reproduce – and the operation of power relations therein – influence all elements of human health: from food consumption and workplace safety, to inequality, healthcare and housing, and even the biophysical conditions in which humans live. This volume explores these concerns across five sections. First, it introduces and critically engages with a variety of established and cutting-edge theoretical perspectives in political economy to conceptualise health and healthcare – from neoclassical and behavioural economics, to Marxist and feminist approaches. The next two sections extend these insights to evaluate the neoliberalisation of health and healthcare over the past 40 years, highlighting their individualisation and commodification by the capitalist state and powerful corporations. The fourth section examines the diverse manifestation of these dynamics across a range of geographical contexts. The volume concludes with a section devoted to outlining more progressive health and healthcare arrangements, which transcend the limitations of both neoliberalism and capitalism. This volume will be an indispensable reference work for students and scholars of political economy, health policy and politics, health economics, health geography, the sociology of health, and other health-related disciplines. Chapters 1 & 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [CC BY NC ND] 4.0 license.
Download or read book The Political Economy of Health and Health Care written by Joan Costa-Font and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an international, unifying perspective, based on the 'public choice' tradition, to explain how patient-citizens interact with their country's political institutions to determine health policies and outcomes. This volume will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students studying health economics, health policy and public policy.
Download or read book Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems written by Joan Costa-Font and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground breaking Handbook brings together a number of chapters into one comprehensive book on the timely subject matter of the political economy of health and health care. The book contains up-to-date discussion on the state of the art of the key questions of the subject matter, and it provides a unique understanding of health policy making by drawing on an interdisciplinary approach to political economy.
Download or read book Essays on Politics and Health Economics written by Linuz Aggeborn and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Health of Nations written by Gavin Mooney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why, despite vast resources being expended on health and health care, is there still so much ill health and premature death? Why do massive inequalities in health, both within and between countries, remain? In this devastating critique, internationally renowned health economist Gavin Mooney places the responsibility for these problems firmly at the door of neoliberalism. Mooney analyses how power is exercised both in health-care systems and in society more generally. In doing so, it reveals how too many vested interests hinder efficient and equitable policies to promote healthy populations, while too little is done to address the social determinants of health. Instead, Mooney argues, health services and health policy more generally should be returned to the communities they serve. Taking in a broad range of international case studies - from the UK to the US, South Africa to Cuba - this provocative book places issues of power and politics in health care systems centre stage, making a compelling case for the need to re-evaluate how we approach health care globally.
Download or read book The Political Economy of Health written by Lesley Doyal and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: a Should be of interest to everyone working for a just and caring health system anywhere.a Barbara Ehrenreich"
Download or read book Essays on Political Economy written by Frédéric Bastiat and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Health Economics written by Gun Sundberg and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Issues in the Political Economy of Health Care written by John B. McKinlay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1984, this book attempted to fill a gap by providing a broad-ranging structural analysis of the health care sector and the political and economic forces which influence its shape and contents, both in the western world and developing countries. The contributors examine the relationships of capitalism to health care, in terms of its influence on the physical environment, the incidence of social diseases and the prevailing (20th Century) view of what constitutes health itself; and in terms of the consequences of the new medical industrial complex it has created, such as the declining provision of health care for the poor and disadvantaged and the growing power of the pharmaceutical industry.
Download or read book Medicine and Social Justice written by Rosamond Rhodes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and comprehensive second edition of an important volume presents writing from renowned authors about achieving social justice in medicine. Each of the 42 chapters addresses continuing and emerging policy challenges facing medicine. They deepen our understanding of theoretical and practical aspects of issues in the contemporary debate.
Download or read book Health Economic Development and Household Poverty written by Sara Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible and edited by authors based at a top institution, this book provides readers with an excellent summary in an easy-to-read style of this burgeoning field of research. In this volume Bennett, Gilson and Mills have gathered together essays written by academics and experts in the fields of health policy and economic development, each underscoring the need for political commitment to meet the needs of the poor and the development of strategies to build this commitment, covering: evidence regarding the links between health, economic development and household poverty evidence on the extent to which health care systems address the needs of the poor and the near poor innovative measures to make health care interventions widely available to the poor. Current and topical, this book is of great relevance to policy makers and practitioners in the field of international health and development and researchers engaged with global health and poverty as well as being ideal reading for students of international health and development.
Download or read book The Political Economy of Health Care written by D. Reisman and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-08-27 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some goods and services are normally left to the market mechanism. Health care is often described as an exception to the rule. Society wants care to be allocated equitably; it wants the financial burden to be kept within bounds; it wants treatments to be both medically effective and economically efficient. These shared concerns lead to a demand for State intervention which this book seeks impartially to appraise and evaluate.
Download or read book Advances in Health Economics written by Anthony Scott and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-12-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It would be difficult to overstate the standing of the authors. Many HERU alumni are among the most highly esteemed health economists in the world." —Steve Morgan, University of British Columbia This is a series of essays to mark the 25 anniversary of HERU. Existing and former HERU staff write about their special interests and work records. This book addresses many current policy issues which exist in the Scottish (and English) National Health System. HERU is one of the leading health economic institutes in the UK Contributors are all distinguished members of the health economics community Covers a wide range of issues that are relevant to the application of health economics now and into the future.
Download or read book Health Care Economics written by John B. Davis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The analytical approach of standard health economics has so far failed to sufficiently account for the nature of care. This has important ramifications for the analysis and valuation of care, and therefore for the pattern of health and medical care provision. This book sets out an alternative approach, which places care at the center of an economics of health, showing how essential it is that care is appropriately recognized in policy as a means of enhancing the dignity of the individual. Whereas traditional health economics has tended to eschew value issues, this book embraces them, introducing care as a normative element at the center of theoretical analysis. Drawing upon care theory from feminist works, philosophy, nursing and medicine, and political economy, the authors develop a health care economics with a moral basis in health care systems. In providing deeper insights into the nature of care and caring, this book seeks to redress the shortcomings of the standard approach and contribute to the development of a more person-based approach to health and medical care in economics. Health Care Economics will be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students in health economics, heterodox economists, and those interested in health and medical care.
