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Three Essays in Health Economics: Policy and Natural Shocks in Healthcare Provision and Patient Outcomes.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Three Essays in Health Economics: Policy and Natural Shocks in Healthcare Provision and Patient Outcomes./
Author:	Shone, Hailemichael Bekele.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2022,
Description:	116 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-06A.
Subject:	Health education. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29993335
ISBN:	9798358483651

Three Essays in Health Economics: Policy and Natural Shocks in Healthcare Provision and Patient Outcomes.
Shone, Hailemichael Bekele.

Three Essays in Health Economics: Policy and Natural Shocks in Healthcare Provision and Patient Outcomes. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2022 - 116 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-06, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, 2022.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Policy and natural shocks are exogenous factors, which may disrupt patients' ability to access recommended health care. My dissertation investigates the effect of recent natural and policy shocks in health care provision on different patient outcomes. The first chapter studies the effect of the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa on maternal health care utilization and infant health in Sierra Leone. The Epidemic resulted in the diversion of the limited health care resource away from other services to care for Ebola patients. It also led to maternal stress from fear of infection and community breakdown. The results show the outbreak led to significant decline in maternal health care utilization and infant birth weight. The second chapter examines whether physician practices that are vertically integrated with hospitals provide healthcare at higher costs than non-integrated practices in a Medicare patient population. The degree of integration is exogenously assigned to a patient following a geographical move. The study finds that switching to integrated practice increases health care utilization and spending. Although integration may increase quality of care, the increase in spending suggests the need for a continuing attention to policies and incentives that are associated with integration.Finally, the third chapter documents the impact of the recent changes in state medical and recreational cannabis access laws in the United States on health care utilization. The liberalization of access to cannabis may enable patients to substitute cannabis for another prescription and non-prescription health care services. The results show a significant decline in the utilization of emergency and outpatient services among patients with chronic pain for the states that legalized cannabis. The effect is mainly due to medical cannabis laws, whereas the effect of recreational cannabis is ambiguous. The three chapters, taken together, show that exogenous shocks, such as natural shocks and government policy, affect health care utilization and the health of individuals. Health policies should, therefore, target developing a resilient health care system that withstands natural shocks and promote policies that provide better treatment alternatives.

ISBN: 9798358483651Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Health education.
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Chronic pain

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