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Autor:
Edward N. Okeke, Emma Pitchforth, Josephine Exley, Peter Glick, Isa Sadeeq Abubakar, Amalavoyal V. Chari, Usman Bashir, Kun Gu, Obinna Onwujekwe
Publikováno v:
BMC Health Services Research, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2017)
Abstract Background The lack of availability of skilled providers in low- and middle- income countries is considered to be an important barrier to achieving reductions in maternal and child mortality. However, there is limited research on programs in
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https://doaj.org/article/0acdbe4f70004a6494a842d0ab4aa406
Publikováno v:
Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, Vol 47 (2010)
We revisit the question of price elasticity of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) take-up by directly examining changes in the take-up of ESI at a large firm in response to exogenous changes in employee premium contributions. We find that, on average
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https://doaj.org/article/a2b35f18c3ec40939bc1a6aa9ac889e7
Publikováno v:
Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, Vol 44 (2007)
While early growth in preferred provider organizations (PPOs) coincided with growth of managed care generally, recent expansion has come primarily at the expense of other managed care plans. Little is known about the micro behavior underlying these t
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https://doaj.org/article/3dfcf9038e204d92a3815c7ff9283b46
Autor:
Edward N. Okeke
Publikováno v:
American Economic Review. 113:585-627
This paper describes the results of a policy experiment conducted in coordination with the Nigerian government. In this experiment, some communities were randomly selected to receive a new doctor. These doctors were posted to the local public health
Autor:
Evan D Peet, Edward N Okeke
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 2, p e0211500 (2019)
This paper examines the association between health facility quality, subjective perceptions, and utilization of obstetric care. We draw on unique survey data from Nigeria describing the quality of care at rural primary health care facilities and the
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https://doaj.org/article/baa0444fb90442ae89d121645a0daa42
Publikováno v:
Health Affairs. 40:1797-1805
The COVID-19 pandemic has put severe pressure on health care systems worldwide. Although attention has been focused on COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, some experts have warned about potentially devastating secondary health effects. These effect
Publikováno v:
Health Affairs. 39:1051-1059
Ninety-nine percent of global maternal deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. The high mortality rates are often attributed to a large portion of births occurring outside of formal healt...
Publikováno v:
Journal of Development Economics. 138:116-134
This paper examines the relationship between maternal employment and infant health in the context of a large workfare program that explicitly prioritizes female participation, India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Using multiple estimat
Autor:
Edward N. Okeke
Publikováno v:
Health economics. 30(11)
This paper documents important mental health spillovers in the context of a program that offered pregnant women modest cash incentives to use pre- and perinatal health care services. Program participation was randomized and the payments were made aft
Autor:
Edward N. Okeke
Publikováno v:
medRxiv
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During a health pandemic health workers have to balance two competing objectives: their own welfare vs. that of their patients. Intuitively, attending to sick patients during a pandemic poses risks to health workers because some of these patients cou