This paper investigates the consequences of removing barriers to information by studying screenings that enable medical treatment of asymptomatic health conditions. We consider two unintended consequences of reducing out-of-pocket costs of screening, as is done in the Affordable Care Act. First, lower-cost screenings attract patients with lower demand for information, who may also have lower de...

background: neonatal deaths mostly occur within the first one week and first 24 hours of life from a variety of conditions. objective: to examine the role of significant hypothermia and hypoglycaemia, in addition to some other factors, in neonatal mortality occurring within the first 24 hours of admission.methods: a prospective study of newborn infants hospitalized within the first 24 hours of ...

We examine the effects of state health insurance mandates requiring coverage of screening mammograms. We find evidence that mammography mandates significantly increased mammography screenings by 4.5-25 percent. Effects are larger for women with less than a high school degree in states that ban deductibles, a policy similar to a provision of federal health reform that eliminates cost-sharing for...

In a vertex algebra setting, we consider non-local screening operators associated to the basis of any non-integral lattice. We have previously shown that, under certain restrictions, these satisfy relations quantum shuffle or Nichols diagonal braiding, which encodes non-locality and non-integrality. present article, take all finite-dimensional algebras, as classified by Heckenberger, find latti...