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Title: Effects of long-term care benefits on healthcare utilization in Catalonia
Authors: Serrano-Alarcón, M
Hernández-Pizarro, H
López-Casasnovas, G
Nicodemo, C
Keywords: long-term care;healthcare use;avoidable hospital admissions;non-scheduled healthcare
Issue Date: 30-May-2022
Publisher: Elsevier
Citation: Serrano-Alarcón, M. et al. (2022) 'Effects of long-term care benefits on healthcare utilization in Catalonia', Journal of Health Economics, 84, 102645, pp. 1 - 14. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102645.
Abstract: This paper estimates effects of long-term care (LTC) benefits on utilization of primary and secondary healthcare in Catalonia (Spain). Identification comes from plausibly exogenous variation in the leniency of LTC needs assessment. We estimate that receiving LTC benefits worth 365 euros per month, on average, reduces the probability of avoidable hospital admissions by 66%, and has no significant effect on planned hospitalisations nor on hospitalisation for any reason. Receiving LTC benefits is estimated to reduce unscheduled primary care visits by 44% and has no significant effect on scheduled visits. These findings have important policy implications suggesting that allocating resources to LTC may not only increase the welfare of LTC beneficiaries but also reduce avoidable and unscheduled utilisation of healthcare.
Description: Acknowledgement: We thank the Catalan Government Department of Work, Social Affairs and Family and AQuAS for providing us the data.
Supplementary materials are available online at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629622000649#sec0023 .
URI: https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/30519
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102645
ISSN: 0167-6296
Other Identifiers: ORCiD: Manuel Serrano-Alarcón https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5256-5538
ORCiD: Helena Hernández-Pizarro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3379-2628
ORCiD: Catia Nicodemo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5490-9576
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