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Title: The War on Povertys Experiment in Public Medicine: Community Health Centers and the Mortality of Older Americans

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: This paper uses the rollout of the first Community Health Centers (CHCs) to study the longer-term health effects of increasing access to primary care. Within ten years, CHCs are associated with a reduction in age-adjusted mortality rates of 2 percent among those 50 and older. The implied 7 to 13 percent decrease in one-year mortality risk among beneficiaries amounts to 20 to 40 percent of the 1966 poor/non-poor mortality gap for this age group. Large effects for those 65 and older suggest that increased access to primary care has longer-term benefits, even for populations with near universal health insurance.

Url: http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20120070

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Authors: Bailey, Martha J; Goodman-Bacon, Andrew

Periodical (Full): American Economic Review

Issue: 3

Volume: 105

Pages: 1067-1104

Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS

Topics: Aging and Retirement, Health

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