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INVITED EDITOR
Editorial from
Luís Alexandre Coelho Filipe
Nova SBE Bsc, Msc & PhD Alumnus | Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University
July 16, 2024
3. Good health and well-being

3. Good health and well-being

Ensuring access to quality health and promoting well-being for all, at all ages
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A tour of health care: emergency room, hospital and home

In his PhD thesis, Luís Coelho Filipe takes us on a small tour of the health care system (emergency room, hospital and home), with special emphasis on providers.

Abstract:

My thesis is a small tour of the health care system (emergency room, hospital and home), with special emphasis on providers. Chapter 1 analyzes how emergency room doctors change their behavior when the waiting room is crowded. The outcomes reflect the time spent with the patient, the intensity of treatment, and discharge destination. Chapter 2 extends the previous setting to inpatient care, to determine how doctors react to hospital occupancy level. It identifies doctors’ discharging criteria as a causal factor for the positive relation between occupancy rates and readmissions. The analysis in Chapters 1 and 2 contributes to the doctors’ incentives literature, explaining how these agents behave in the context of a National Health Service, with no financial incentives. Chapter 3 examines the impact of informally providing care to a partner (at home) on the physical and mental health of the carer.

This PhD Dissertation was presented by Luís Alexandre Coelho Filipe as part of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Economics. You can access the paper here.

Luís Alexandre Coelho Filipe
Nova SBE Bsc, Msc & PhD Alumnus | Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University
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