Essays in Health Economics
| Autor: | Clayton, Denise Hammock |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Insurance
Health economics United States Health insurance Evaluation United States Social medicine Evaluation United States Life expectancy States United States Pharmaceutical services insurance Evaluation humanities health care economics and organizations UCSD Dissertations Academic Economics (Discipline) |
| Zdroj: | Clayton, Denise Hammock. (2015). Essays in Health Economics. UC San Diego: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/57t4w2pm |
| Popis: | This dissertation looks at how public health programs and prescription drug insurance affect health and health- related behaviors and expenditures. The first chapter examines the effect of Medicaid prescription drug coverage on state-level mortality using the implementation period as a natural experiment. The second chapter looks at state -level changes in life expectancy from the 1970s to 2000s and explores the role of state prescription drug programs as a possible explanatory variable. The third chapter examines how health care expenditures change with prescription drug insurance status |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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