• DOI:10.1002/hec.3072
Corpus ID: 2618931

The Effectiveness of Health Screening

@article{Hackl2015TheEO,
  title={The Effectiveness of Health Screening},
  author={Franz Hackl and Martin Halla and M. Hummer and G. Pruckner},
  journal={Health & the Economy eJournal},
  year={2015}
}

Franz Hackl, Martin Halla, +1 author G. Pruckner

Published 2015

Medicine

Health & the Economy eJournal

Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional variations in the intensity of exposure to supply-determined screening recommendations as an instrumental variable. We found that screening participation substantially increased inpatient and outpatient health care costs for up to two years after treatment. In the… CONTINUE READING

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