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The Great Resignation: Health Care Workers
WEBEd Yong in the Atlantic discusses Why Health-Care Workers are Quitting in Droves: Health-care workers, under any circumstances, live in the thick of death, stress, and trauma. “You go in knowing those are the things you’ll see,” Cassandra Werry, an ICU nurse currently working in Idaho, told me. “Not everyone pulls through, but at the
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Who in America has mental health problems
WEBGraduate education yikes: Youths with parents with higher education had more mental health symptoms; the prevalence of mental health symptom was 37.4% (95% CI = 36.3%, 38.5%) among youths whose parents had graduate degrees compared with 30.3% (95% CI = 23.8%, 36.8%) among those whose parents had less than a high …
Random Critical Analysis on Health Care
WEB2. The price of health care increases with income but at a slower rate than income. As a result of the above: 3. The price of health care relative to income is lower in rich countries, including the United States. Let that sink in, health care prices are lower relative to income in richer countries.
Health Care Spending Growth Has Slowed: Will the Bend in the …
WEBIn large part yes: Over 2009-2019 the seemingly inexorable rise in health care’s share of GDP markedly slowed, both in the US and elsewhere. To address whether this slowdown represents a reduced steadystate growth rate or just a temporary pause we specify and estimate a decomposition of health care spending growth. The post-2009 …
Social media and female mental health
WEBSocial media and female mental health. by Tyler Cowen November 10, 2022 at 12:10 am. Teenage mental health has been a source of growing concern over the past decade, with recent whistleblower testimony pointing to the mental health risks of spending time on social media platforms, especially for girls. This paper investigates the …
Ezra Klein and Jean Twenge on teen mental health
WEBEdward Burke. Maybe all or most of the problems that can be adduced for and attributed to shortfalls or shortcomings in "mental health" are in deed and in fact and in truth chiefly symptomatic of relying on as unwieldy and as imprecise an intellectual construction as "mental health", just as Thomas Szasz warned us. "Mental health" is a …
Why did the HMO revolution fail
WEBDuring the 1990’s it seemed, briefly, as if private H.M.O.’s. could play that role. But then there was a public backlash. It turns out that. even in America, with its faith in the free market, people don’t trust. for-profit corporations to make decisions about their health. Read the whole link for a recap of Mark’s debate with Arnold
What’s Behind Her Smile
WEBLooks matter!: This paper examines how improving dental health affects economic, social, and psychological outcomes. In a randomized experiment, we provide a low-income group in Chile free dental care, including prostheses, and find significant and persistent impacts on men’s and women’s dental and self-perceived mental health. For …
A simple proposal for boosting health care workers
WEBOne recent report suggests that 10% of the doctors in northern Italy are infected with coronavirus. No matter what the exact figure, that is clearly a problem. In response, Italy is opting for at least two reforms. First, health care workers who are retired are being lured back to work:. Italy on Saturday began recruiting retired doctors as part …
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One Reason Why American Health Care is Expensive
WEBThe average person will be poorer and somebody organized enough to fly internationally to seek healthcare is going to be a dream patient. The expensive patients tend to be the ones who both need expensive treatments and who cannot manage the basics on their own. Spending money in the US makes a lot of sense.
Government Medical Research Spending Favors Women
WEBIt would be surprising if industry research was biased against women because women are bigger consumers of health care than men. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, find, for example, that: Per capita health spending for females was $8,315 in 2012, approximately 23 percent more than for males, $6,788. Also:
Brad DeLong's health care plan is outed
WEBBrad DeLong’s health care plan is outed. It is described as utopian, read it here, excerpt: health bills. If your expenses in a year are less than 15% of your. refund check (or stuffed into your IRA). revenues). The main point, after all, is insurance: if you fall. not your wallet biopsy is positive.
When are mental health interventions counterproductive
WEBThe researchers point to unexpected results in trials of school-based mental health interventions in the United Kingdom and Australia: Students who underwent training in the basics of mindfulness, cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy did not emerge healthier than peers who did not participate, and some were worse off, at …
From the comments, more on health care
WEBBy the time someone is so fat they need to go to the zoo for an MRI, they're well past the point where merely forcing them to pay more for health care is going to fix them. From 2000 to 2019, US obesity prevalence increased from 31% to 42%. That didn't happen because 1/10th of the entire country decided to get lazier.
Overall health inequality seems to be down
WEBThe haves are those who enjoy great health into their 90s. The have-nots are those who suffer from serious health problems and do not live to see adulthood. As we pointed out in a recent study, among those Americans who were born in 1975, the unluckiest 1 percent died in infancy, while the luckiest 1 […]
Are Health Administrators To Blame
WEBMore generally, the graph is misleading because it suggests that “administrators” are to blame for high health care costs and if only we could focus on the “real producers” of medicine, the physicians, costs would be much lower. Blaming administrators for high prices is a lot like blaming “the middlemen.”.
The Amy Finkelstein and Liran Einav health care plan
WEBI am away from my review copy, so I am pleased that Matt Yglesias has offered ($) a good “standing on one foot” summary of the plan, as outlined in the new book We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care, by Amy Finkelstein and Liran Einav:. They call for: A universal basic insurance system, covering both catastrophic and …
What can be learned from Singaporean health care institutions
WEBSingaporean appointments are less than half the price of those in the UK. The most affordable online appointment I found in the UK was £29. Yet, many providers charge significantly more – for instance, Babylon Health lists its price for private GP appointments at £59. In contrast, Doctor Anywhere, Singapore’s leading telemedicine provider
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