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10 Tips for Health Promotion with Adolescents Change Talk

WEBby Gina Foianini Public health graduate student Health Promotion Advocate (HPA) Intern, 2010-2011. As a health promotion advocate (HPA) at Boston Medical …

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Health Economics: A Modern Approach

WEB4 Imperfect Decisionmaking This topic is intended to capture all of the aspects of behavioral economics and insights that arise from adding human and …

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An Engineering (and Honors) Student’s Guide to Being a Pre-Med

WEBFret not, anxious student. As someone who’s lived it (and survived), I’m here to give you the engineer’s guide to being a pre-medical student. 1. Studying and Time …

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THE HUMAN CAPITAL MODEL*

WEBAbstract. This chapter contains a detailed treatment of the human capital model of the demand for health which was originally developed in 1972. Theoretical predictions are …

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Healthcare Demand under Simple Prices: Evidence from …

WEBsame tiered network but with the $750 copay doubled to $1,500. The $1,500 copay is motivated by an actual increase of the tier 3 copay by the largest plan in my data after …

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EC 782 Randall P. Ellis

WEBProfessor Randall Ellis. Office: Room 555. 270 Bay State Road. ellisrp at bu dot edu. tel: 617-353-2741. Classes will be held in person. Office hours will be in person unless you …

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Health care demand elasticities by type of service

WEB1. Health care demand elasticities by type of service. Randall P. Ellis, Bruno Martins, and Wenjia Zhu Boston University Department of Economics 270 Bay State …

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Health Care Demand Elasticities by Type of Service

WEBRandall P. Ellis, Bruno Martins, and Wenjia Zhu. We estimate price elasticities of demand for health care services using an instrumental variable strategy, in which the …

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Boston University School of Law

WEBBoston University School of Law. Past Bloggers. Robert Snyder ’10. Follow the week-to-week lives of current students as they document their experiences at BU Law. Through …

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Optimal Health Insurance for Prevention and Treatment

WEBAdding in insurance and cost of risk. Use Arrow-Pratt approximation for welfare loss from financial risk. Cost of risk = (RA)(variance of out-of-pocket spending)/2. Assume …

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Health Economics: A Modern Approach

WEBmax , , ℒ= (H( 0,X), )+ [ −𝑃 −𝑃 ] Text Box 2.1 A more formal approach, with conventional and behavioral interpretations. Conventional Analysis Mathematically this …

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Risk Selection and Risk Adjustment

WEBBoston University, Department of Economics. 270 Bay State Road; Boston MA 02215 USA. [email protected]. Synopsis: Risk selection, which occurs when an individual’s demand for …

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Stalin and the Great Terror: Can Mental Illness Explain His Violent

WEBThere is no question that Stalin’s purges were violent and savage. The question that needs to be asked is whether a mental illness can explain Stalin’s ability to engage in such …

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Production of Health

WEBFigure 5-1 Production of Health A Marginal Product Diminishing marginal product – as more and more health care inputs are added to the production process, the increments in …

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FOOD LOBBIES, THE FOOD PYRAMID, AND U.S. NUTRITION …

WEBFOOD LOBBIES, THE FOOD PYRAMID, AND U.S. NUTRITION POLICY Marion Nestle International Journal of Health Services, Volume 23, Number 3, Pages 483­496, 1993

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Resource Review: NY Times(dot)com Sargent Choice Blog

WEBby Ellie Schulman, Film and Television student, College of Communication. Whenever Laura Judd, MS, RD, CSSD makes a recommendation about a resource for …

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What to expect when you are expecting

WEBCritique (Intuition) The cost of delivery is quite random, i.e. expecting mothers may have complications that would incur a lot of cost. If liquidity constraint is binding, and if the …

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The RAND Health Insurance Experiment, Three Decades Later

WEBThe RAND Health Insurance Experiment, Three Decades Later. Aviva Aron‐Dine, Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein. Journal of Economic Perspectives 2013, 27(1):197–222 Ellis …

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Moral Hazard in Health Insurance: Developments since Arrow …

WEBThe first is the lack of health insurance by approximately 46 million people, or about 15% of the population. The second is that healthcare spending is a large and growing share of …

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