Download or read book Four Essays in Health Economics written by Cornel Raphael Kaufmann and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Supply of Medical Services written by Simon Reif and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Insurance and Expenditures written by Florian Klohn and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Four Essays on Causal Inference in Health Economics written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gain only Incentives and Commitment Devices in Health Economics written by Maximilian Hiller and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empirical Essays in Health Economics written by Van Hai Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis comprises four essays on important public health issues. The first essay studies how social interactions can spread petty corruption in the health sector. Using a Vietnam dataset, I find that social interactions measured by advice on hospital choice increase the propensity of patients to give bribes to hospital staff as well as raises the bribe amount. There is also evidence on the information-transmitting role of social networks. The second essay evaluates long term health impacts of Agent Orange exposure in the VietnamWar on the Vietnamese population. I use a unique dataset that includes both self reported hypertension and objectively measured blood pressure. The results indicate that exposure to Agent Orange significantly increases the risk of having hypertension and reduce height, with the largest burden falling on the cohort born during the spraying period and on the most heavily sprayed areas. I also show that using self-reported hypertension data may lead to upward bias in the estimate of the effects of Agent Orange on hypertension. There is also evidence that exposure to Agent Orange and herbicides during the Vietnam War increases risk of cancer and mental illness. The third essay investigates a possible link between hypertension and happiness by examining possible impacts of neighborhood wealth on individuals' hypertension. Using both self-reported and objective hypertension data to proxy for happiness, I find that self-reported hypertension rate is much lower than objectively measured hypertension rate which lead to a large discrepancy between results obtained from self-reported and objective hypertension data. Moreover, I find that high neighborhood wealth raises hypertension risks for people aged 55-65 and not for younger or older age groups. The fourth essay provides a theoretical rationale for smoking bans by proposing a theoretical model of maximizing behaviour on the part of smokers. It also empirically evaluates effects of smoking bans imposed at home and in workplace. Both calibrated model simulations and empirical results suggest that, with the exception of heavy smokers, workplace bans have relatively minor impacts on smokers while restrictions on smoking in the home are found to be of an order of importance greater.
Download or read book Essays in Health Economics microform written by Julia Catherine Witt and published by Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. This book was released on 2005 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Health Economics written by Tamara Hayford and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Health Economics written by Frank Limbrock and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Health Economics written by Sabina Ohri and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Health Economics written by Chiara Serra and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the chapters of this thesis, I empirically investigate four distinct research questions, spanning from the detrimental impact of very early shocks - at birth and even before birth - on children medium-term health, to the mediation role of social interactions in altering the effect of weather conditions on the spread of the Sars-CoV-2, and to ED nurses' leniency in assigning priority and the impact of waiting time on health. Although each chapter focuses on different questions, they all investigate different instances of the (unintended) consequences of individuals' actions on others - with a focus on vulnerable categories, and they all share an approach oriented at unveiling policyrelevant causal relations in natural experiment settings. In the first chapter, joint with Simone Ferro and Alessandro Palma, I investigate the health effects of a relatively higher prenatal exposure to Particulate Matter. Although the detrimental effects of air pollution on health are already well documented, in our study, we try to innovate on two relevant aspects. First, by matching birth certificates to individual consumption of subsidised pharmaceutical and hospitalisation records of Tuscany, our data allows going beyond the effects detected at birth to investigate for the first time medium-term morbidity at the individual level. Second, by documenting a permanent health loss associated with higher in-utero exposure to air pollution in a setting characterised by non-extreme levels of air pollution, our findings challenge the existing consensus on whether such levels of concentration of PM should be considered healthy. In the second chapter, I first show that Emergency Department patients arriving just after a shift change have a substantially lower probability of being assigned a higher priority with respect to patients arriving just before a shift change. As such distortion in the assignment of priority will only affect them by altering their relative position in the waiting list, I employ this quasi-experimental variation in the assigned priority to investigate the immediate and the longer-term consequences of waiting time on visits' outcomes and patients' future demand for emergency health care. I find that in the short-run, patients who are assigned a lower priority (and thus who presumably wait less time before being examined by a physician) are more likely to leave the ED before being visited. Furthermore, in the longer run, they are significantly less likely to return to the ED with the same condition. In the third chapter, Simone Ferro and I investigate the role of weather conditions on the spread of the Sars-CoV-2 in the US while taking into account the mediation role of social interactions. Our findings suggest that the endogenous response of social interaction to weather conditions play a major role in shaping the overall total effect of weather on the spread of the virus. This may contribute to rationalise the paradox between the results of laboratory experiments showing that the virus is susceptible to temperature, and the fact that the seasonal increases in temperature did not slow down the spread of the virus. In the fourth and final chapter, jointly with Gabriel Facchini and Matilde Machado, I investigate the relationship between being born by cesarean section and health outcomes for children. Such relation is confounded by different dimensions of selection in the choice of birth mode and to overcome the issue we employ an individual specific, purely exogenous measure of crowding at the precise time of admission at the maternity ward. We find that higher crowding leads to a significant decrease in the total probability of cesarean section. This effect is larger for patients with a higher ex-ante probability of delivering via cesarean section. We then use such relation to identify a causal relationship between the delivery method and the consumption of drugs for children up to age three. We find a positive and significant effect on the consumption of antiinfectives (antibiotics in particular) from the first year of life on - both looking at the quantity and at an indicator for abnormal use of this type of pharmaceuticals. This points to an adverse effect on children health, which is in line with the medical literature results on the importance of delivery method on the development of the immune system.
Download or read book Essays in Health Economics written by Tatyana Avilova and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three essays in health economics. The three chapters focus specifically on prescription drug use and treatment in various national and state settings and evaluate the impact of government policies and interventions on this sector of the health care market. The first two chapters focus on opioid prescribing in the United States. Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs or PMPs)--online systems that health care providers and pharmacists can use to query patient prescription records--are one of the most widely-used state tools in regulating the prescribing and dispensing of opioids. However, the staggered adoption of PDMPs over time has created opportunities for patients to evade monitoring by going to a state that does not have a PDMP. Chapter 1 evaluates how spillovers attributable to policy non-coordination between neighboring states impact the effectiveness of PDMPs. I find that after prescribers gain access to PDMPs, opioid volume and prescription opioid deaths decrease in counties with a PDMP that are insulated from opportunities for evasion.
Download or read book Three essays on health economics written by Feng Pan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Health Economics written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation presents three essays in health economics. The first essay sheds light on the relationship between health insurance and access to care. The second essay considers the relationship between health and labor markets. The third essay explores one facet of health inequality.
Download or read book Essays in Health Economics written by Ana Moura and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Three Essays in Health Economics written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
