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Making America Healthy Again: Remedies for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Campaign against Chronic Disease

open access: yesHastings Center Report, EarlyView.
Abstract Chronic diseases impose enormous health and economic burdens in the United States, especially on marginalized populations, and demand evidence‐based, equity‐focused interventions. To combat chronic disease, the Trump administration established the Make America Healthy Again Commission, chaired by Department of Health and Human Services ...
Lawrence O. Gostin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Insurance Expansion During Pregnancy

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze how the abolition of cost‐sharing in health insurance affects pregnant women's gross spending on health care services using an exogenous policy change in Switzerland. Using non‐linear regression, we find that the policy slightly increases average gross spending, contrasting policymaker expectations of no impact on demand.
Philip Hochuli, Christian P. R. Schmid
wiley   +1 more source

Hungry no More? The Joint Impact of Minimum Wages and the Earned Income Tax Credit on Food Insecurity

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this study, we provide evidence on the combined effect of state minimum wages and state Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) benefits on food insecurity. Using data from the Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (CPS‐FSS) between 2001 and 2019 and a sample of individuals with at most a High School degree, we estimate difference‐in ...
Otto Lenhart, Kalyan Chakraborty
wiley   +1 more source

Utilization and access to metered-dose inhalers and sustainable alternatives among older adults in the United States: a population-based study. [PDF]

open access: yesLancet Reg Health Am
Parthasarathi A   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Income and Health Care Consumption: Evidence From Mortgage Payment Shocks

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the Great Recession, monetary stimulus had asymmetric impacts on mortgages with different interest rate structures, leading to a significant and unexpected reduction in mortgage payments for adjustable‐rate mortgage (ARM) borrowers, which in turn increased their disposable income.
Hong Lee, Deokrye Baek, Joseph R. Mason
wiley   +1 more source

Sick of Robots—Heterogeneous Effects of Industrial Robots on Sickness Absence

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper studies how the introduction of industrial robots affects sickness absence among workers in the manufacturing sector in Norway. We use data on the imports of industrial robots at the firm level, combined with employee‐firm linked register data, to investigate the impact of robotization on the duration of sick leave (SL).
Janis Umblijs, Kjersti Misje Østbakken
wiley   +1 more source

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