EuHEA 2020 Seminar Series
In fall 2020, EuHEAwill launch a new web-based seminar series. Due to the cancellation of the in-person conference in Oslo earlier this year, the chairman of Oslo's scientific committee, Oddvar Kaarboe and Pedro Pita Barros, Professor of Health Economics at Nova SBE, kindly agreed to organize a weekly online seminar, with the support of the countries' representatives, inviting selected presenters who submitted their papers to the original conference. We are happy to announce that the seminar's program has now been finalized. See the details below.
The Seminar Series won't be recorded.
To participate in the seminar, we kindly ask you to register here.
Pedro Pita Barros
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Europeans know and act on WHO recommendations during COVID-19
The World Health Organization recommended a range of preventative behaviors to protect the public from COVID-19. This column examines how familiar and compliant the adult population of seven European countries were with WHO’s recommendations. Using individual-level data from 7,000 respondents to an online survey conducted in April 2020, the study finds that information from WHO in the context of COVID-19 was well trusted and largely followed, with heterogeneities by recommendation type, country, and individual level characteristics such as region, age, gender, and education.
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Measuring state medicaid home care participation and intensity using latent variables
Population aging and policies to redirect long-term care toward home- and community-based services have led to increases in Medicaid home care spending in most states. This study measures state Medicaid home care Participation and Intensity comprehensively using latent variables, and uses those latent variables to describe changes in Medicaid home care policy generosity over time and across states.
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Entry and price competition in the over-the-counter drug market after deregulation: evidence from Portugal
In the last two decades, many European countries allowed the sale of over-the-counter (OTC) drugs outside pharmacies. This was expected to lower retail prices through increased competition, though evidence of such price reductions is scarce. This study assesses the impact of supermarket and outlet entry in the OTC drug market on OTC prices charged by incumbent pharmacies.
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