The Effectiveness of Health Screening

SummaryUsing a matched insurant–general practitioner panel data set, we estimate the effect of a general health‐screening program on individuals' health status and health‐care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we use regional variation in the intensity of exposure to supply‐determi...

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Volume:	24
Main Author:	Hackl, Franz Halla, Martin Hummer, Michael Pruckner, Gerald J
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	HOBOKEN WILEY 01.08.2015 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
published in:	Health economics Vol. 24; no. 8; pp. 913 - 935
Data of publication:	August 2015
ISSN:	1057-9230 1099-1050
EISSN:	1099-1050
Discipline:	Medicine Public Health Economics
Subjects:	health‐care cost mortality health screening sick leave Economics Social Sciences Life Sciences & Biomedicine Health Care Sciences & Services Business & Economics Health Policy & Services Science & Technology Models, Econometric Insurance Claim Review - statistics & numerical data State Medicine Mass Screening - economics Health Expenditures - statistics & numerical data Humans Middle Aged Male Inpatients Outpatients Cost-Benefit Analysis Adult Female Aged Health Status Medical screening Medical care, Cost of Index Medicus health-care cost COLORECTAL-CANCER mortality CARCINOMA SOCIOECONOMIC-STATUS PARTICIPATION BREAST CARE health screening sick leave
Online Access:	available in Bonn?
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2015 Web of Science - Science Citation Index Expanded - 2015 Web of Knowledge Science Citation Index Expanded Web of Science MEDLINE (Ovid) PubMed MEDLINE MEDLINE MEDLINE Medline CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) MEDLINE - Academic Database information Databases - DBIS