Do Health Interventions Matter in a Decentralized Healthcare System? A Case Study of the Swedish Female Health Intervention on Maternal Health Outcomes
(2021) NEKP01 20211Department 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
- 2021
- 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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