Effects of long-term care benefits on healthcare utilization in Catalonia
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- dc.contributor.author Serrano-Alarcón, Manuel
- dc.contributor.author Hernández Pizarro, Helena Maria
- dc.contributor.author López i Casasnovas, Guillem
- dc.contributor.author Nicodemo, Catia
- dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-20T11:22:23Z
- dc.date.available 2022-10-20T11:22:23Z
- dc.date.issued 2022-05
- dc.description.abstract This paper estimates effects of long-term care (LTC) benefits on utilization of primary and secondary healthcare in Catalonia (Spain). Identification comes from plausibly exogenous variation in the leniency of LTC needs assessment. We estimate that receiving LTC benefits worth 365 euros per month, on average, reduces the probability of avoidable hospital admissions by 66%, and has no significant effect on planned hospitalisations nor on hospitalisation for any reason. Receiving LTC benefits is estimated to reduce unscheduled primary care visits by 44% and has no significant effect on scheduled visits. These findings have important policy implications suggesting that allocating resources to LTC may not only increase the welfare of LTC beneficiaries but also reduce avoidable and unscheduled utilisation of healthcare.ca
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- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/54512
- dc.language.iso engca
- dc.relation.ispartofseries Health Policy Papers (CRES);9 (2022)
- dc.rights This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properlyattributed.ca
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- dc.subject.keyword Long-term careen
- dc.subject.keyword Healthcare useen
- dc.subject.keyword Avoidable hospital admissionsen
- dc.subject.keyword Non-scheduled healthcareen
- dc.title Effects of long-term care benefits on healthcare utilization in Cataloniaca
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaperca