國立高雄大學圖資館 |

Language: English

Back

Three essays on health and health sy...

Almeyda-Duran, Regina.

Three essays on health and health systems.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Three essays on health and health systems.
Author:	Almeyda-Duran, Regina.
Description:	160 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Sherry A. Glied.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-04, Section: A, page: 1444.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-04A.
Subject:	Economics, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3213471
ISBN:	9780542636837

Three essays on health and health systems.
Almeyda-Duran, Regina.

Three essays on health and health systems. - 160 p.

Adviser: Sherry A. Glied.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2006.

In Chapter 3, I analyze the design of the New York City "welfare state" with respect to health care. The design of the New York City "welfare state" with respect to health care differs in important respects from the design of other welfare state functions. As in most situations, governments are active in providing benefits---in this case primarily health insurance---directly to individuals. In addition, however, governments play a critical role in New York City healthcare by supporting institutions that, in turn, provide services to low-income city residents. An assessment of the design and functioning of the health care welfare state, then, requires an examination of both these roles and their outcomes.

ISBN: 9780542636837Subjects--Topical Terms:

212429
Economics, General.

Three essays on health and health systems.
LDR:03390nmm _2200289 _450 001 180492
005 20080111103718.5
008 090528s2006 eng d
020 $a 9780542636837
035 $a 00311516
040 $a UMI $c UMI
100 0 $a Almeyda-Duran, Regina. $3 264067
245 1 0 $a Three essays on health and health systems.
300 $a 160 p.
500 $a Adviser: Sherry A. Glied.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-04, Section: A, page: 1444.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2006.
520 # $a In Chapter 3, I analyze the design of the New York City "welfare state" with respect to health care. The design of the New York City "welfare state" with respect to health care differs in important respects from the design of other welfare state functions. As in most situations, governments are active in providing benefits---in this case primarily health insurance---directly to individuals. In addition, however, governments play a critical role in New York City healthcare by supporting institutions that, in turn, provide services to low-income city residents. An assessment of the design and functioning of the health care welfare state, then, requires an examination of both these roles and their outcomes.
520 # $a Previous studies have documented the direct benefits of literacy on child health within the nuclear family. Literacy may also generate important externalities outside the immediate family. Proximity to a literate individual in an extended household or village could be beneficial if it leads the illiterate to acquire information through the literate. Alternatively, if bargaining power over household or village resources favors the literate, proximity of an illiterate to a literate might be detrimental to the illiterate. The first chapter examines whether there exist spillovers of literacy within and across households on child health when the literate in the household is a non-parent.
520 # $a The empirical evidence from the few studies on the subject, including the one presented in the first chapter, does not allow a generalization of these findings across countries; neither does it offer a clear understanding of the mechanisms through which the literacy external effects operate. In Chapter 2, I look at a select sample of South East Asian and sub-Saharan African countries to examine whether external effects of literacy exist in other societies where characteristics such as large households and low female literacy rates are prevalent and common to India; but where family formation patterns are quite distinct. I estimate the external effects of literacy for each country. Moreover; I explore the effects of marriage patterns, women autonomy and religion on the literacy external effects.
520 # $a This paper examines the role of government in the New York City health care system and compares the outcomes of that system relative to the state, the nation, and to other cities in the United States. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
590 $a School code: 0054.
650 # 0 $a Economics, General. $3 212429
690 $a 0501
710 0 # $a Columbia University. $3 212899
773 0 # $g 67-04A. $t Dissertation Abstracts International
790 $a 0054
790 1 0 $a Glied, Sherry A., $e advisor
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2006
856 4 0 $u http://libsw.nuk.edu.tw:81/login?url=http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3213471 $z http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3213471