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Creator:: Muoto, Ifeoma O.
Abstract:: Background: Prenatal care (PNC) is an important preventive health service that can influence the health of the four million women who give birth annually in the United States, and the health their infants. Despite efforts to increase women’s access to PNC services, significant disparities in PNC utilization and maternal/child health...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: health outcomes by insurance type and race/ethnicity persist in the United States. The past decade has

Creator:: Chen, Wen-Yi
Abstract:: This dissertation consists of three essays that evaluate various types of health care policies from the social welfare perspective. Chapter 1 introduces the main ideas and framework of this dissertation. Chapter 2 evaluates the new co-payment policy, enacted on July 15, 2005 under Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI). We show...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Health Insurance in Taiwan: Welfare Analysis and Hospital Competition Abstract approved: rdl1 hanie L

Creator:: Núñez Mondaca, Alicia Lorena
Abstract:: Chile has experienced great success in terms of economic growth in the last decades. This growing economy brings changes in the Chilean health care system. Its health care system was primarily funded by state sources until 1981, when a major reform was introduced that established new rules for the health...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: until 1981, when a major reform was introduced that established new rules for the health insurance

Creator:: Knudson-Buresh, Alana
Abstract:: Access to health care in North Dakota, a frontier state, has been a widely debated policy issue. Historically, the focus of North Dakota health policy efforts has been directed to issues pertaining to the provision of health care services. During the economic recession of the I 980s, an out-migration of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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