A5075950689- Global Health Care Issues
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Social Issues and Policies
University of Oxford
2023
University of York
2022-2023
We study whether hospitals that exhibit systematically higher bed occupancy rates are associated with lower quality in England over 2010/11-2017/18. develop an economic conceptual framework to guide our empirical analysis and run regressions inform possible policy interventions. First, we a pooled OLS regression test if high is with, therefore acts as signal of, quality, which could trigger additional regulation. Second, this association explained by exogenous demand-supply factors such...
Abstract Waiting times act as a non‐price rationing mechanism to bring together the demand for and supply of public healthcare services ensure equal access independently ability pay. This study tests presence socioeconomic inequalities in waiting ten publicly‐funded planned cancer surgeries Catalonia (Spain) 2015–2019. Socioeconomic status (SES), measured by four categories (very low, middle, high), is based on co‐payment levels medicines which depend patient's income. Using administrative...
In contemporary households, women often shoulder most organisation and caregiving responsibilities leading them to play a crucial role in family dynamics. While previous research has established that public early childcare affects child outcomes maternal employment, less attention been given its effects on health despite relevance within the household. This study investigates impact of short- long-term health. Based administrative records covering 90% German population over decade, we...