Browsing by UPNA Author "García Prado, Ariadna"
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Cost sharing and hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions
In this paper, we study the effect of ambulatory and hospital coinsurance rates on HACSC among individuals with private insurance in Chile. During the last decade, Chile´s private health sector has experienced a dramatic ... -
Enrolling the self-employed in mandatory health insurance in Colombia: are we missing other factors?
We assess the impact that Colombia’s 1993 health sector reform had on the enrollment of self-employed workers in mandatory social health insurance scheme, with a especial focus on the independent contractors. This group ... -
Lockdown strictness and mental health effects among older populations in Europe
This paper investigates whether lockdown policies aggravated mental health problems of older populations (50 and over) in Europe during the first COVID-19 wave. Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement ... -
Non-elective cesarean sections in public hospitals: hospital capacity constraints and doctor´s incentives
Using administrative records of births from the Perinatal Surveillance System of the Social Security System (ESSALUD) in Peru, we test whether high admissions of pregnant women affected unplanned cesarean section rates in ... -
Risk attitudes in medical decisions for others: an experimental approach
The aim of this paper is to investigate how risk attitudes in medical decisions for others vary across health contexts. A lab experiment was designed to elicit the risk attitudes of 257 medical and nonmedical students by ... -
Salud mental en tiempos de pandemia: ¿cómo afectó el confinamiento a los adultos mayores de 50 años?
El objetivo concreto de nuestra investigación fue determinar qué parte del deterioro mental observado en el colectivo de personas mayores de 50 años en Europa había sido causado por las restricciones de movilidad implementadas ... -
Trade-offs in health investments: HIV, malaria and malnutrition
While life expectancy has increased worldwide during the last decades, the developing world is still losing millions of lives each year due to three pervasive illnesses: Malaria, HIV and Chronic Malnutrition. This work ... -
Using visual stimuli to promote healthy snack choices among children
(Elsevier, 2021) Artículo / ArtikuluaMost interventions against obesity use information to persuade people to change their behavior, with moderate results. Because eating involves automatic routines, new approaches have emerged appealing to non-reflective ...