Author: Asako OhinataPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Financial Incentives and the Timing of Birth
Author: Asako OhinataFinancial Incentives, the Timing of Births, Birth Complications, and Newborns' Health
Author: Beatrice BrunnerImproving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264805907
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.
Holiday, Just One Day Out of Life
Author: Mireille JacobsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motivation (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fewer births occur on major US holidays than would otherwise be expected. We use California data to study the nature and health implications of this birth date manipulation. We document 18% fewer births on the day of and just after a holiday. Cesarean sections account for roughly half of the decline. Using insights from the tax bunching and test score manipulation literature, we show that "missing" holiday births are displaced to a window of time 11 days before the holiday through 16 days after the holiday. Delivery type does not change over this window, consistent with a pure retiming of births rather than an increase in the use of procedures such as cesarean sections. Despite the change in timing, we find little evidence of any adverse health consequences for babies born around a holiday. Even among high-risk pregnancies, which are more likely to be retimed, we find a minimal impact of holiday-related birth timing manipulation on infant health. Finally, while some of the retiming seems to be driven by patients' preferences, provider incentives appear to play a crucial role in holiday-related birth retiming. At Kaiser Permanente hospitals, where systemwide financial incentives discourage providers from electively timing births, the dip in births on holidays is less than for hospitals overall. This suggests that holiday retiming occurs more frequently among providers who face less of a disincentive to electively schedule births.
Making Sense of Incentives
Author: Timothy J. BartikPublisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
ISBN: 0880996684
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Bartik provides a clear and concise overview of how state and local governments employ economic development incentives in order to lure companies to set up shop—and provide new jobs—in needy local labor markets. He shows that many such incentive offers are wasteful and he provides guidance, based on decades of research, on how to improve these programs.
The Handbook of Behavior Change
Author: Martin S. HaggerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108750117
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Social problems in many domains, including health, education, social relationships, and the workplace, have their origins in human behavior. The documented links between behavior and social problems have compelled governments and organizations to prioritize and mobilize efforts to develop effective, evidence-based means to promote adaptive behavior change. In recognition of this impetus, The Handbook of Behavior Change provides comprehensive coverage of contemporary theory, research, and practice on behavior change. It summarizes current evidence-based approaches to behavior change in chapters authored by leading theorists, researchers, and practitioners from multiple disciplines, including psychology, sociology, behavioral science, economics, philosophy, and implementation science. It is the go-to resource for researchers, students, practitioners, and policy makers looking for current knowledge on behavior change and guidance on how to develop effective interventions to change behavior.
Making pregnancy safer: the critical role of the skilled attendant : a joint statement by WHO, ICM and FIGO
Author: Organização Mundial da SaúdePublisher:
ISBN: 9789241591690
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Increasing Access to Health Workers in Remote and Rural Areas Through Improved Retention
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9241564016
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Accompanying CD-Rom has same title as book.
Health Care Financing Review
Author: Preterm Birth
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030910159X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 791
Book Description
The increasing prevalence of preterm birth in the United States is a complex public health problem that requires multifaceted solutions. Preterm birth is a cluster of problems with a set of overlapping factors of influence. Its causes may include individual-level behavioral and psychosocial factors, sociodemographic and neighborhood characteristics, environmental exposure, medical conditions, infertility treatments, and biological factors. Many of these factors co-occur, particularly in those who are socioeconomically disadvantaged or who are members of racial and ethnic minority groups. While advances in perinatal and neonatal care have improved survival for preterm infants, those infants who do survive have a greater risk than infants born at term for developmental disabilities, health problems, and poor growth. The birth of a preterm infant can also bring considerable emotional and economic costs to families and have implications for public-sector services, such as health insurance, educational, and other social support systems. Preterm Birth assesses the problem with respect to both its causes and outcomes. This book addresses the need for research involving clinical, basic, behavioral, and social science disciplines. By defining and addressing the health and economic consequences of premature birth, this book will be of particular interest to health care professionals, public health officials, policy makers, professional associations and clinical, basic, behavioral, and social science researchers.