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The health conditions and the health care consumption of the uninsured

Overview of attention for article published in Health Economics Review, December 2016
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Title
The health conditions and the health care consumption of the uninsured
Published in
Health Economics Review, December 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13561-016-0137-z
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Marco A. Castaneda, Meryem Saygili

Abstract

This paper investigates the difference in the health conditions and the health care consumption of uninsured individuals as compared to individuals with private insurance, using a nationally representative data set of inpatient hospital admissions from the US. In line with the previous literature, our results indicate that uninsured individuals are, on average, in worse health conditions. However, if we compare individuals within the same diagnosis category, the uninsured are actually healthier, with a lower number of chronic conditions and a lower risk of mortality. This indicates that the uninsured are admitted to the hospital only for more serious conditions. In addition, our results show that uninsured individuals consume less health care. In particular, conditional on being admitted to a hospital and controlling for health conditions, the uninsured have lower total charges, fewer procedures, and a higher mortality rate.

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Unknown 21 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 24%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 14%
Unspecified 2 10%
Student > Bachelor 2 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 5%
Other 3 14%
Unknown 5 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 3 14%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 14%
Unspecified 2 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 10%
Chemistry 2 10%
Other 2 10%
Unknown 7 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 October 2021.
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#1,866,862
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#29
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#37,773
of 429,092 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Health Economics Review
#5
of 13 outputs
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