Measurement and effects of home care policy on health care use

Diplôme Thèse Measurement and effects of home care policy on health care use eng 2015-12-22 author Goncalves Judite 764908 director Weaver France 708589 director Krishnakumar Jaya 26462 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:80031 urn:nbn:ch:unige-800316 GSEM 19 This dissertation focuses on the measurement of regional home care policy and its effects on health care utilization. It brings three main contributions. First, it provides causal evidence on the effects of home care policy generosity on hospitalizations, doctor visits, and nursing home use. Variations in generosity across the Swiss cantons and over time are used to identify the effects of canton home care policy. The endogeneity of that policy is addressed by using instrumental variables. Second, comprehensive measures of regional home care policy are developed. Two dimensions of generosity are measured as latent variables using factor analysis: the Participation and Intensity dimensions (i.e. how many persons have access to home care services and how much care is provided to home care users). Third, it proposes a bias correction to the OLS estimator for linear regression with factor scores (i.e. estimated values of latent variables such as home care policy). Home care policy Hospitalizations Doctor visits Nursing home care Endogeneity Instrumental variables Latent variables Factor analysis Bias Simulation Dewey 330 Swiss National Science Foundation Effects of home care policy on health care use in Switzerland 134899 CH Programmes 114 Institute of Economics and Econometrics S2 false 8f81759b-cc52-4bb6-954c-391529b3cef0 Thesis Public JG_Dissertation.pdf 2679932 application/pdf openAccess Faculté d'économie et de management / Institute of Economics and Econometrics

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