Prenatal care demand and birthweight production of black mothers

Article Abstract:

Newborn infants' health are measured against prenatal care visits and a visit-times delay interaction factor in an attempt to define interventions for minimizing low birthweight cases. Black women under Medicaid coverage start care programs earlier but make fewer visits. This contradictory result is caused by the refusal of physicians to accept Medicaid patients due to low reimbursement fees, forcing women to consider public clinics that have limited capacity.

Services, Patient outcomes, Mortality, Medical care, Demographic aspects, Infants (Newborn), Newborn infants, Infant mortality, Women, Black, Black women

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The softness of medical production and implications for specifying hospital outputs

Article Abstract:

An analysis of the application of inarticulate medical production functions on approximated hospital production functions is presented. It is shown that the level of scientific knowledge involving relationships between medical inputs and outputsconditions medical care and the efficiency level of medical payment incentives.

Analysis, Economic aspects, Hospitals, Production functions (Economics)

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