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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"health spending"”.
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Understanding the role of the health workforce in driving health spending: trends across OECD countries and implications for the US
Given its high levels of health spending but lacking proportionately better health outcomes, the US has focused much policy attention on improving health spending efficiency and reducing health spending overall. One factor potentially related to health spending that would be both affected by …
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Sensitivity of measuring the progress in financial risk protection to varied survey instruments: A case study of Ghana
Valid and reliable data on household health expenditure and other household consumption expenditure are important for monitoring the progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). However, the difficulty in obtaining reliable estimates of private expenditure on health often undermine the …
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Eliminating waste in US health care: evaluating accountable care organizations as a model for quality sustainable care
In 2011, the United States spent $2.7 trillion in health care expenditures, accounting for 17.9 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Health care spending increased by 3.9 percent in 2011 and is expected to surpass 20 percent of GDP by 2020. An investigation of national trends in health …
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A decision analytic framework for the costs of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption
… have wide ranging implications for such areas as health insurance, national health spending, and public health awareness campaigns.
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Essays in Health Economics
… power with food, bad goods, education, and health spending with OLS regression models. We find that the wife’s higher education level increases the probability of her sole bargaining power in food spending and of joint husband-wife decision-making in education and health spending. The share …
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The political economy of health: death, disease and distribution
… to alleviate their suffering by providing public health funding to afflicted areas. I argue that the funding of health policy in democracies is subject to distributional incentives similar to other government policies. Patterns of government control, partisanship, strategic importance and quality …
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Financial Development And Health Capital Accumulation
… between financial development and health capital accumulation. While credit to GDP ratio, liquid liabilities to GDP ratio and market capitalization to GDP ratio are used as the proxies for financial development, health capital is represented by life expectancy, infant mortality and …
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Access to Care and the Use of Healthcare Services by Women in Rural Cameroon: A Participatory Action Research Study
<p>Women in rural Cameroon do not access health care as timeously and as often as they should. They fail to get screened for common diseases, with the consequence that such diseases are often diagnosed at a very advanced stage. This accounts for the high morbidity and mortality rates as well as low …
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Essays on the economics of local labor markets
… and Amy Finkelstein, studies how local area health spending responds to permanent changes in local area income. This chapter is motivated by the fact that health expenditures as a share of GDP have more than tripled over the last half century, and a common conjecture is that this is primarily …
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The Dynamics of Size, Composition, and Fiscal Authority in Government Expenditures: Examining The Effects of Social Disturbance
… effects of German reunification on government spending. This research tests several hypotheses using data on total spending and six major sub-policy spending categories between 1972 and 2006. First, this study identifies strong evidence of a large upward displacement effect following …
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Three Essays on Health Care and Industrial Organization
United States health spending grew dramatically over the last several decades, reaching approximately 18% of Gross Domestic Product in 2015. Much of these rising costs can be attributed to consolidation of health care providers, the provision of generous insurance plans, and innovations in medical …
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The nexus between social spending and economic growth in South Africa: a cointegration approach
… Keynesian theory which proposes that government spending stimulates economic growth. Several empirical studies testing the Keynesian proposition are generally affirmative but these studies do not tell us how disaggregated and particular components of government spending affect economic growth. …
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Closing gaps in global access to biologic medicines : building tools to evaluate innovations in biomanufacturing
… growing need for safe, effective, and affordable health services, especially medicines. Such trends are in part due to a continued epidemiologic transition from infectious to chronic, non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Today, NCDs account for a large portion of total global disease burden: 70% of …
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Three studies on life expectancy and lifespan inequality
… life expectancy is a key indicator in public health and demography, it may obscure unequal experiences of different population groups. By contrast, lifespan inequality captures variations in age at death, offering a broader view of health disparities. Focusing on lifespan inequality enables …
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Practice Patterns and Influential Factors of Nurse Practitioners Managing Chronic Pain
… comprises the third-highest category of all health spending, and is responsible for up to 20% of primary care visits. Chronic pain treatment guidelines: recommend a biopsychosocial, multimodal management approach that addresses the physical and mental aspects of chronic pain. Nurse …
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Essays in public economics and political economy
… in developed and developing countries, including health insurance regulation, public goods provision and inequality and welfare measurement. The first chapter analyzes the impacts of the managed care backlash in the United States on health care costs in the late 1990s and early 2000s. During the …
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Examining the Effect of Hydroxyurea Treatment on Acute Care Spending and Utilization among Patients with Sickle Cell Disease
… of guidelines. This paper aims to quantify how healthcare utilization, spending, and pain crises in SCD patients change before and after prescription of hydroxyurea, as well as estimate the potential averted burden if those not prescribed hydroxyurea were to be placed on the treatment regimen. …
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Enhancing healthcare decisions using big data
This dissertation supports US healthcare decisions by analyzing big data. The first chapter contains two papers that document and predict 10-year school opening, closing, and vacation dates and explore the transmission of common respiratory infectious diseases within families. The second chapter …
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Are assistive technologies an enhancement to the present health, care, and support mechanisms
The present health, care and support mechanisms are unable to truly meet the demands made upon it. Between 1992 and 1996 the total number of home care hours increased by 50% while the number of households receiving the service declined by around 7%. A more intensive service is being delivered to a …
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Essays in public policy and social outcomes in Brazil
… and less educated voters, also impacted public spending. Connecting all three essays is the fact that they all relate to Brazil and analyze the impact of public policies. Below are the title and individual abstracts for each of the three essays. Chapter 1: Crime and political effects of a …
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