medical preventive measures improve expected health, they do not save money. Various lifestyle and early childhood … interventions, however, may both save money and improve health. Second, preventive measures, including medical and lifestyle …, generalizations in everyday discourse about the value of prevention can be overly broad. Third, health insurance coverage for medical …

drugs, use of other medical services, and health for a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries. Given the … health. We find that gaining prescription drug insurance through Medicare Part D was associated with a 70% increase in the … health care services or health, as measured by functional status and self-reported health. Among those in poorer health, we …

health improvements, which we estimate at 1.82 years of quality-adjusted life. However, these were roughly offset by … health by way of behavioral improvements and public health are possible …

. We quantify the effect of the CWA on a direct measure of health and incorporate health benefits into a cost …-benefit analysis. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we compare health upstream and downstream from wastewater treatment … weight by 8 grams. A back-of-the-envelope calculation bounds infant health benefits below $29 billion …

This paper investigates the health of white adolescents, focusing particularly on the roles of family background and … preventive medical care. This emphasis is motivated in part by our desire to study adolescent health in the context of the nature … on adolescent health and second, that preventive care is an important vehicle for this impact in the case of dental …

We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous health improvements on output per capita. Our simulation model allows … for a direct effect of health on worker productivity, as well as indirect effects that run through schooling, the size and … developing countries, and standard components of quantitative macroeconomic theory. We consider both changes in general health …

Does Canada's publicly funded, single payer health care system deliver better health outcomes and distribute health … resources more equitably than the multi-payer heavily private U.S. system? We show that the efficacy of health care systems … of health status using JCUSH (The Joint Canada/U.S. Survey of Health) and other surveys. We find a somewhat higher …

expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust …. We report several findings. First, we document a strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …

Behavioral constraints may explain part of low demand for preventive health products. We test the effects of two light …-touch psychological interventions on water chlorination and related health and economic outcomes using a randomized controlled trial among …; one builds participants' ability to make concrete plans. Both interventions include information on health benefits of …