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Do Health Interventions Matter in a Decentralized Healthcare System? A Case Study of the Swedish Female Health Intervention on Maternal Health Outcomes

Lindblad, Madeleine LU (2021) NEKP01 20211
Department of Economics
Abstract
This thesis evaluates if a countrywide female-related healthcare intervention in 2015 affected Swedish regions’ maternal health outcomes differently due to a decentralized healthcare system. By exploiting regions’ varying budget dedicated to female-related healthcare before the intervention, the size of the budget increase is estimated. Maternal health outcomes before and after the intervention are compared using two difference-in-differences (DiD) strategies. A majority of the results indicate that the intervention did not translate into health improvements. Due to low statistical power, longer time-periods are needed in order to further explore impacts of health interventions in a decentralized healthcare system.
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author
Lindblad, Madeleine LU
supervisor
organization
course
NEKP01 20211
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
c-section, preterm delivery, rupture degree, BMI, female health intervention, difference-in-differences, parallel trends, Sweden
language
English
id
9058659
date added to LUP
2021-07-05 13:22:22
date last changed
2021-07-05 13:22:22
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  abstract     = {{This thesis evaluates if a countrywide female-related healthcare intervention in 2015 affected Swedish regions’ maternal health outcomes differently due to a decentralized healthcare system. By exploiting regions’ varying budget dedicated to female-related healthcare before the intervention, the size of the budget increase is estimated. Maternal health outcomes before and after the intervention are compared using two difference-in-differences (DiD) strategies. A majority of the results indicate that the intervention did not translate into health improvements. Due to low statistical power, longer time-periods are needed in order to further explore impacts of health interventions in a decentralized healthcare system.}},
  author       = {{Lindblad, Madeleine}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Do Health Interventions Matter in a Decentralized Healthcare System? A Case Study of the Swedish Female Health Intervention on Maternal Health Outcomes}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}