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Recent reports show that at least 95% of the world's population is breathing polluted air. However, the impact of air quality on air pollution‐related medical expenditure and utilization is sparse. This study estimates the short‐term health care cost impacts of air pollution using a meteorological phenomenon—thermal inversion—as an instrumental variable for air quality. Using information on outpatient...
This paper contributes to the growing body of literature that debates whether the adoption of pharmaceutical innovation increases the overall expenditure on health care. By examining data obtained from Taiwan and focusing on diabetic patients, we use a new class of drugs, namely, thiazolidinediones, as an example to investigate the effect on health expenditure of prescribing new drugs to patients...
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