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The Impact of Public Health Policy: The Case of Community Health Centers

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  • Fred Goldman
  • Michael Grossman

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The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the community health center on health levels in the United States. Using infant mortality as the underlying health indicator and a time series of large counties as the data set, the authors investigate the extent to which the presence of a program in a county affects future mortality. The centers have negative and statistically significant impacts on race-specific mortality rates. The reduction in the black rate between 1970 and 1978 due to community health centers amounts to one death per thousand live births, or approximately 12 percent of the observed decline.

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  • Fred Goldman & Michael Grossman, 1988. "The Impact of Public Health Policy: The Case of Community Health Centers," Eastern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Association, vol. 14(1), pages 63-72, Jan-Mar.
    • Handle: RePEc:eej:eeconj:v:14:y:1988:i:1:p:63-72
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