全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): The Impact of National Health Insurance on Birth Outcomes: A Natural Experiment in Taiwan

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w16811
来源ID	Working Paper 16811
	The Impact of National Health Insurance on Birth Outcomes: A Natural Experiment in Taiwan
	Shin-Yi Chou; Michael Grossman; Jin-Tan Liu
发表日期	2011-02-18
出版年	2011
语种	英语
摘要	We estimate the impacts of the introduction of National Health Insurance (NHI) in Taiwan in March 1995 on the health of infants. Prior to NHI, government workers (the control group) possessed health insurance policies with comprehensive coverage for births and infant medical care services. Private sector industrial workers and farmers (the treatment groups) lacked this coverage. All households received coverage for the services just mentioned as of March 1995. Since stringent requirements for reporting births introduced in 1994 produced artificial upward trends in early infant deaths, we focus on postneonatal mortality (deaths from the 28th through the 364th day of life per thousand survivors of the first 27 days of life). We find that the introduction of NHI led to reductions in this rate for infants born in farm households but not for infants born in private sector households. For the former group, the rate fell by 0.5 deaths per thousand survivors or by 13 percent relative to the mean in the pre-NHI period of 4 deaths per thousand survivors. An especially large decline of 6 deaths per thousand survivors occurred for pre-term infants-- a 36 percent drop relative to the pre-NHI mean of 17 deaths per thousand survivors.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w16811
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574486
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Shin-Yi Chou,Michael Grossman,Jin-Tan Liu. The Impact of National Health Insurance on Birth Outcomes: A Natural Experiment in Taiwan. 2011.

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