Assessing the Impact of Social Distancing on COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in Brazil: An Instrumented Difference-in-Differences Approach

Rodrigo Gomes de Arruda, Tatiane Almeida de Menezes, Joebson Maurilio Alves dos Santos, Antônio Paez e Fernando Lopes

Working Paper nº 11 | February, 2021

Keywords: COVID-19, Instrumented Difference-in-Differences, social isolation

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Urgent Care Centers, Hospital Performance and Population Health

Sonia Bhalotra, Letícia Nunes e Rudi Rocha

Working Paper nº 10 | December, 2020

Keywords: urgent care centers, hospital performance, displacement effects, health outcomes

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The Effects of a Large-Scale Mental Health Reform: Evidence from Brazil

Mateus Dias e Luiz Felipe Fontes

Working Paper nº 9 | November, 2020

Keywords: Centros de Atenção Psicossocial, mental health, psychiatric health reform

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Is Deforestation Spreading COVID-19 to the Indigenous Peoples?

Humberto Laudares e Pedro Henrique Gagliardi

Working Paper nº 8 | November, 2020

Keywords: COVID-19, Deforestation, Health Inequality, Racial Inequality, Indigenous Peoples, Brazil

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Winds of Fire and Smoke: Air Pollution and Health in the Brazilian Amazon

Rudi Rocha e André Sant’Anna

Working Paper nº 7 | September, 2020

Keywords: fires, air pollution, health outcomes, Amazon

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Financing Needs, Spending Projection and the Future of Health in Brazil

Rudi Rocha, Isabela Furtado e Paula Spinola

Working Paper nº 6 | July, 2020

Keywords: health expenditures, projection models, fiscal constraints, health system sustainability

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Subsidizing Access to Prescription Drugs and Health Outcomes: The Case of Diabetes

Pedro Américo e Rudi Rocha

Working Paper nº 5 | May, 2020

Keywords: subsidies, prescription drugs, diabetes, hospital admissions, mortality

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Pandemia por COVID-19 em Minas Gerais, Brasil: Análise da Demanda e da Oferta de Leitos e Equipamentos de Ventilação Assistida Considerando os Diferenciais de Estrutura Etária, Perfil Etário de Infecção, Risco Etário de Internação e Distâncias Territoriais

Kenya Noronha, Gilvan Guedes, Cássio M. Turra, Mônica Viegas Andrade, Laura Botega, Daniel Nogueira, Julia Calazans, Lucas Carvalho, Luciana Servo, Valéria Silva, Victor Nascimento, Monique Félix Ferreira e Reinaldo Onofre dos Santos

Working Paper nº 4 | April, 2020

Keywords: COVID-19, desigualdades regionais, oferta de leitos, leitos UTI, acesso a serviços de saúde

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Can Universalization of Health Work? Evidence from Health Systems Restructuring and Expansion in Brazil

Sonia Bhalotra, Rudi Rocha, Rodrigo R. Soares

Working Paper nº 3 | February, 2020

Keywords: universal health coverage, health systems, primary care, maternal mortality, infant mortality, birth outcomes

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Daylight Saving Time is Causing Suicide

Julyan Gleyvison Machado Gouveia Lins, Tatiane Almeida de Menezes

Working Paper nº 2 | February, 2020

Keywords: suicide, sunlight, daylight saving time, natural experiment, regression discontinuity design

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How to Attract Physicians to Underserved Areas? Policy Recommendations from a Structural Model

Francisco Costa, Letícia Nunes e Fábio Sanches

Working Paper nº 1 | December, 2019

Keywords: physician labor supply, recruiting, discrete choice model, revealed preferences

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