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Do Kidney Exchanges Improve Patient Outcomes? 肾脏交换能改善病人的预后吗?
Pub Date : 2018-10-04 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2943048
Keith F. Teltser
In this paper, I estimate the number of additional transplants generated by kidney exchanges. To do this, I analyze substitution patterns between exchange transplants and other transplant outcomes. Exploiting variation in patients exposure to exchange activity across time and place, I find that 64 percent of exchange transplants represent new living donor transplants. Using the same approach, I find that an increase in the probability of receiving an exchange transplant reduces the probability of graft failure and reduces time spent waiting for a kidney. Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that each exchange transplant increases social welfare by $300,000 to $700,000. (JEL D47, I11, I12, I18)
在本文中,我估计了肾脏交换产生的额外移植数量。为此,我分析了交换移植和其他移植结果之间的替代模式。利用患者在不同时间和地点接触交换活动的差异,我发现64%的交换移植代表新的活体供体移植。使用同样的方法,我发现接受交换移植的可能性的增加减少了移植失败的可能性,减少了等待肾脏的时间。粗略的计算表明,每次交换移植会增加30万至70万美元的社会福利。(jel d47, i11, i12, i18)
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引用次数: 10
The Effect of Mandatory Iodine Fortification on Cognitive Test Scores in Rural India 强制性碘强化对印度农村认知测试成绩的影响
Pub Date : 2018-04-29 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3170585
Wiktoria Tafesse
This paper is the first to provide evidence of a direct causal impact of iodine fortification in early life on cognitive skills in childhood. I apply a differences-indifferences strategy using exogenous variation from a nationwide iodine fortification policy in India, comparing test scores of school aged children in naturally iodine sufficient and deficient districts over time. I find that the policy increased the probability of attaining basic numeracy and literacy skills by 2.67 - 5.83%. Previous papers find a larger effect on longer term human capital for women. I do not find a gender differential for basic skills but I observe a positive effect on more difficult literacy tasks for girls but not for boys. Additionally, I find that the male treatment effect on basic numeracy vary with district level son preference.
这篇论文首次提供了早期碘强化对儿童认知技能有直接因果影响的证据。我采用差异-无差异策略,利用印度全国碘强化政策的外源性变异,比较自然碘充足和缺乏地区学龄儿童随时间的测试成绩。我发现该政策将获得基本算术和识字技能的概率提高了2.67 - 5.83%。先前的论文发现,对女性的长期人力资本有更大的影响。我没有发现在基本技能上存在性别差异,但我观察到,在更困难的识字任务上,性别差异对女孩有积极影响,而对男孩则没有。此外,我发现男性对基本算术的治疗效果随地区水平的儿子偏好而变化。
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引用次数: 3
Gamified Challenges in Online Weight-Loss Communities 在线减肥社区的游戏化挑战
Pub Date : 2018-04-05 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3157331
Behnaz Bojd, Xiaolong Song, Yong Tan, Xiangbin Yan
Gamified challenges, one of the most popular features of online weight-loss communities, enable users to set weight-loss goals and compete with other challenge participants via leaderboards. Using the data from a leading online weight-loss community, we study the effect of gamified challenges on the weight-loss outcome. Our findings indicate that participation in gamified challenges has a positive and significant effect on weight loss. We found that, on average, the participants achieved a weight loss of 0.742 kg by participating in at least one challenge a month. We found that effective challenges do not include a numeric weight goal (e.g., lose 5 kg), focus on exercise-only behavioral goals, and have a large active group size. Further, the results show that the absence (presence) of a numeric weight goal benefits users in exercise (diet) challenges. Moreover, a small active group size can help (hurt) users in exercise (diet) challenges. Our results suggest that gamification elements that induce competition should be used with caution in goal-setting environments, especially when gamifying dietary goals. Online weight-loss communities can recommend a useful combination of numeric weight goals, behavioral goals, and an optimal number of participants in each challenge to induce an encouraging level of social comparison.
游戏化挑战是在线减肥社区最受欢迎的功能之一,它允许用户设定减肥目标,并通过排行榜与其他挑战参与者竞争。利用一个领先的在线减肥社区的数据,我们研究了游戏化挑战对减肥结果的影响。我们的研究结果表明,参与游戏化挑战对减肥有积极而显著的影响。我们发现,平均而言,参与者通过每月至少参加一次挑战,体重减轻了0.742公斤。我们发现有效的挑战不包括数字体重目标(例如,减掉5公斤),只关注运动行为目标,并且有一个大的活跃群体。此外,研究结果表明,数字体重目标的缺失(存在)对锻炼(饮食)挑战的用户有益。此外,一个小的活跃小组可以帮助(伤害)用户在锻炼(饮食)的挑战。我们的研究结果表明,诱导竞争的游戏化元素在目标设定环境中应该谨慎使用,特别是当游戏化饮食目标时。在线减肥社区可以推荐数字体重目标、行为目标和每个挑战的最佳参与者人数的有用组合,以诱导令人鼓舞的社会比较水平。
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引用次数: 8
Insurance Expansions and Children's Use of Substance Use Disorder Treatment 扩大保险和儿童使用物质使用障碍治疗
Pub Date : 2018-04-01 DOI: 10.3386/w24499
S. Hamersma, C. MacLean
This study provides the first evidence on the effects of U.S. state-level private and public insurance expansions on specialty substance use disorder (SUD) treatment use among children ages 12 to 18. We examine both private and public expansions over the period 1996 to 2010. Public insurance expansions are measured by changes in income thresholds for Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Private expansions are generated by state laws that compel private insurers to cover SUD treatment services at ‘parity’ with general healthcare services. We apply differences-in-differences regression models and leverage an all-payer admissions dataset. Our findings suggest that expansions, both private and public, lead to increases in admissions to treatment and increased insurance coverage among children in treatment. After public expansions, we find that treated children are more likely to be younger and to have previous experience with treatment, but less likely to be referred by the criminal justice system. We find no evidence that public expansions crowd out adult admissions, and in fact both public and private expansions increase at least some types of admissions among adults.
本研究提供了美国州一级私人和公共保险扩大对12至18岁儿童特殊物质使用障碍(SUD)治疗使用影响的第一个证据。我们考察了1996年至2010年期间私人和公共部门的扩张。公共保险的扩张是通过医疗补助和州儿童健康保险计划(SCHIP)收入门槛的变化来衡量的。私人扩张是由州法律产生的,该法律迫使私人保险公司以“平等”的方式覆盖SUD治疗服务与一般医疗服务。我们应用差异中的差异回归模型,并利用所有付款人的入院数据集。我们的研究结果表明,无论是私人还是公共的扩张,都会导致接受治疗的人数增加,并增加接受治疗的儿童的保险覆盖率。在公开推广后,我们发现接受治疗的儿童更有可能更年轻,并且以前有过治疗经验,但不太可能被刑事司法系统转介。我们没有发现证据表明公共扩张会挤占成人入学,事实上,公共和私人扩张至少增加了某些类型的成人入学。
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引用次数: 4
Right to Health and Role of Mental Health Institutions in Kerala 喀拉拉邦的健康权和精神卫生机构的作用
Pub Date : 2018-03-31 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3153420
S. V
The preamble of the charter of the W.H.O formed in 1948, defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely absence of disease or infirmity. Mental illness has reached an alarming proportion over the globe and has become a vitally important issue for the nations in terms of morbidity, mortality and huge economic burden. In India there are multiple models of health care services are operating, under government services, private services and non-governmental services. Mental Health service includes both long-term hospital services as well as community mental health services, launched under the District Mental Health Programme. Mental health policies, legislation, community care facilities, and treatments for people with mental illness are not given the priority they deserve. Health being State subject in India and much depends on the ability of the State governments to allocate higher budgetary support to health sector. Kerala, the widely acknowledged state for it’s improvement in quality of life, now facing a severe crisis related to public health with increasing male suicides and increasing atrocities against women. The paper discusses the issues of right to mental health, health care facilities offered through various mental health institutions and to suggest suitable measures to enhance mental health through various institutional intervention.
1948年成立的世界卫生组织章程的序言将健康定义为一种完全的身体、精神和社会健康状态,而不仅仅是没有疾病或虚弱。精神疾病在全球已达到惊人的比例,就发病率、死亡率和巨大的经济负担而言,已成为各国的一个极其重要的问题。在印度,医疗保健服务有多种模式,包括政府服务、私人服务和非政府服务。精神健康服务包括在地区精神健康计划下推行的长期医院服务和社区精神健康服务。精神卫生政策、立法、社区护理设施和对精神疾病患者的治疗没有得到应有的重视。在印度,卫生是国家的课题,在很大程度上取决于各邦政府向卫生部门分配更多预算支助的能力。喀拉拉邦因其生活质量的改善而得到广泛认可,但现在面临着与公共卫生有关的严重危机,男性自杀率上升,针对女性的暴行也在增加。该文件讨论了精神健康权、各种精神保健机构提供的保健设施等问题,并提出了通过各种机构干预措施加强精神保健的适当措施。
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引用次数: 1
Minimum Wages and Public Health: A Literature Review 最低工资与公共卫生:文献综述
Pub Date : 2018-02-27 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3176217
J. P. Leigh, Wesley Leigh, Juan Du
We evaluate evidence for the effectiveness of raising minimum wages on various measures of public health within the US, Canada, the UK, and Europe. We search four scientific websites from the inception of the research through May 20, 2018. We find great variety (20+) in measured outcomes among the 33 studies that pass our initial screening. We establish quality standards in a second screening resulting in 15 studies in which we create outcome-based groups. Outcomes include four broad measures (general overall health, behavior, mental health, and birth weight) and eight narrow measures (self-reported health, "bad" health days, unmet medical need, smoking, problem-drinking, obesity, eating vegetables, and exercise). We establish criteria for "stronger" findings for outcomes and methods. Stronger findings include: $1 increases in minimum wages are associated with 1.4 percentage point (4% evaluated at mean) decreases in smoking prevalence; failure to reject null hypotheses that minimum wages have no effects for most outcomes; and no consistent evidence that minimum wages harm health. One "suggestive" finding is that the best-designed studies have well-defined treatment (or likely affected) and control (unaffected) groups and contain longitudinal data. The major methodological weaknesses afflicting many studies are the lack of focus on persons likely affected by minimum wages and omission of "falsification tests" on persons likely unaffected. An additional weakness is lack of attention to how findings might differ across populations such as teenagers, adults, men, women, continuously employed and unemployed persons. Research into health effects of minimum wages is in its infancy and growing rapidly. We present a list of "better practices" for future research.
我们评估了在美国、加拿大、英国和欧洲提高最低工资对各种公共卫生措施的有效性的证据。我们搜索了从研究开始到2018年5月20日的四个科学网站。我们发现在33项通过初步筛选的研究中,测量结果有很大差异(20+)。我们在第二次筛选中建立了质量标准,在15项研究中,我们建立了基于结果的小组。结果包括四个广义指标(总体健康、行为、心理健康和出生体重)和八个狭义指标(自我报告的健康状况、“不良”健康天数、未满足的医疗需求、吸烟、问题饮酒、肥胖、吃蔬菜和锻炼)。我们为结果和方法建立了“更强”的发现标准。更有力的发现包括:最低工资增加1美元与吸烟率下降1.4个百分点(平均评估为4%)相关;未能拒绝“最低工资对大多数结果没有影响”的零假设;也没有一致的证据表明最低工资会损害健康。一个“启发性”的发现是,设计最好的研究有明确的治疗(或可能受影响的)和控制(未受影响的)组,并包含纵向数据。影响许多研究的主要方法弱点是对可能受到最低工资影响的人缺乏关注,对可能不受影响的人没有进行"伪造检验"。另一个弱点是缺乏对不同人群(如青少年、成年人、男性、女性、连续就业人员和失业人员)的研究结果可能存在差异的关注。关于最低工资对健康影响的研究尚处于起步阶段,发展迅速。我们为未来的研究提供了一份“更好的实践”清单。
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引用次数: 57
From Electronic Health Records to Digital Health Biographies 从电子健康记录到数字健康传记
Pub Date : 2018-02-15 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3169529
Robert F. Graboyes, Darcy Bryan
Electronic health records (EHRs) are widely perceived as having great potential for improving the quality of healthcare and diminishing the costs of that care. Present-day EHRs, however, are widely perceived as disappointing. Many doctors consider them time- and money-wasting nuisances that interfere with their interactions with patients. This paper explores how and why potential and reality diverge. We lay out a dozen broad principles for creating a new generation of EHRs that fulfill their long-hypothesized promise. To emphasize the magnitude of the difference between our proposal and today’s EHRs and to simplify the narrative, we use the label “digital health biographies” (DHBs) for the alternative we envision.
电子健康记录(EHRs)被广泛认为在提高医疗保健质量和降低医疗保健成本方面具有巨大潜力。然而,如今的电子病历被普遍认为令人失望。许多医生认为它们既浪费时间又浪费金钱,妨碍了他们与病人的互动。本文探讨了潜力和现实如何以及为什么会出现分歧。我们列出了创建新一代电子病历的十几个广泛原则,以实现其长期假设的承诺。为了强调我们的建议与今天的电子病历之间的巨大差异,并简化叙述,我们使用“数字健康传记”(dhb)作为我们设想的替代方案。
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Pharma Payments and Physician Concentration: An Empirical Analysis 医药支付与医师集中度:一个实证分析
Pub Date : 2017-11-21 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3188322
Raymond J. March
This paper uses a rent-seeking framework to empirically examine the effect of physician concentration at the state level on the dollar amount of payments made to physicians from the pharmaceutical industry. Using OLS and 2-stage least squares, this paper finds increased physician concentration at the state level is associated with lesser payment amounts made to physicians from pharmaceutical companies for overall physician concentration and office-based physician concentration. The results for hospital-based concentration were mixed. These findings provide important insights for health policy literature regarding which factors reduce the propensity to rent-seeking to affect health care outcomes and costs.
本文使用寻租框架来实证检验医生集中度在州一级对制药行业向医生支付的美元金额的影响。使用OLS和2阶段最小二乘法,本文发现,在州一级,医生集中度的提高与制药公司向医生支付的总体医生集中度和办公室医生集中度的减少有关。以医院为基础的浓度结果好坏参半。这些发现为卫生政策文献提供了重要的见解,即哪些因素会降低寻租倾向,从而影响卫生保健结果和成本。
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Biofidel FEA Modeling of Customized Hybrid Biological Hip Joint Design Part II: Flexible Stem Trabecular Prostheses 定制混合生物髋关节设计的生物有限元建模第二部分:柔性柄小梁假体
Pub Date : 2016-12-16 DOI: 10.3844/AJBBSP.2016.277.285
R. Aversa, F. Petrescu, R. Petrescu, A. Apicella
New biomechanical criteria for the design of biomimetic hip joint prostheses are presented. Biofidel Finite Element Models have been used both to correctly analyze femur physiological and structural behavior and to assess a new design criterion for the development of innovative hybrid biological hip prostheses. Proper identification of isostatic lines and isorigidity regions for the sintered metal trabecular lattices distribution between the proximal and distal part of the stem has been carried out. The faithful models enables us to properly take into account not-isotropic properties of the femur proximal end, while clarifying the critical mechanical role of the trabecular bone that should be taken into account to design new innovative prosthetic system.
提出了仿生髋关节假体设计的新生物力学准则。生物菲德尔有限元模型已被用于正确分析股骨的生理和结构行为,并为开发创新的混合生物髋关节假体评估新的设计标准。适当的识别等静力线和等原始区域的烧结金属小梁晶格分布之间的近端和远端部分的干进行了。忠实的模型使我们能够适当地考虑股骨近端的非各向同性特性,同时澄清小梁骨的关键力学作用,在设计新的创新假体系统时应考虑到这一点。
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引用次数: 13
On Religious and Secular Exemptions. A Case Study of Childhood Vaccination Waivers 关于宗教和世俗豁免。儿童疫苗豁免个案研究
Pub Date : 2016-07-11 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2807903
R. Pierik
This paper analyses exemptions to general law through the prism of vaccine waivers in the United States. All US states legally require the vaccination of children prior to school or daycare entry, however this obligation is accompanied with a system of medical, religious and/or philosophical exemptions. Nonmedical exemptions became subject of discussion after the 2015 Disneyland measles outbreak in California, which unequivocally brought to light what had been brewing below the surface for a while: a slow but steady decline in vaccination rates in Western societies, resulting in the reoccurrence of measles outbreaks. This can be traced back to an increasing public questioning of vaccines by a growing anti-vaccination movement. In reaction to the outbreak and the public outrage it generated, several states proposed – and some already passed – Bills to eliminate nonmedical exemptions. I analyze two questions. First, can legal exemptions to mandatory childhood vaccination schemes for parents who oppose to vaccination (still) be justified? Second, should legal exemptions be limited to religious objections to vaccination, or should it also be granted to secular objections? Although the argument in the paper starts from the example of the USA, it seeks to provide a more general philosophical reflection on the question of exemptions to mandatory childhood vaccination.
本文通过美国疫苗豁免的棱镜来分析一般法的豁免。美国所有州在法律上都要求儿童在上学或进入日托所之前接种疫苗,但这一义务伴随着医疗、宗教和/或哲学豁免制度。2015年加州迪士尼乐园爆发麻疹疫情后,非医疗豁免成为讨论的主题,这明确地揭示了一段时间以来一直在酝酿的问题:西方社会的疫苗接种率缓慢但稳步下降,导致麻疹疫情再次爆发。这可以追溯到越来越多的反疫苗运动引起公众对疫苗越来越多的质疑。为了应对疫情及其引发的公愤,几个州提出了——有些州已经通过了——法案,以消除非医疗豁免。我分析了两个问题。首先,反对接种疫苗的父母(仍然)可以合法豁免强制性儿童疫苗接种计划吗?其次,法律上的豁免应该仅限于宗教上对疫苗接种的反对,还是也应该给予世俗上的反对?虽然论文中的论点从美国的例子开始,但它试图提供对强制性儿童疫苗接种豁免问题的更一般的哲学反思。
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