Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/270584 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
CINCH Series No. 2019/07
Publisher: 
University of Duisburg-Essen, CINCH - Health Economics Research Center, Essen
Abstract: 
This paper evaluates the introduction of preventive home visits (PHV) for older people in Norway. Their purpose is to support autonomy and independence as well as preventing disability and nursing home admissions. We contribute to the literature by exploiting a natural experiment in Norwegian municipalities. Our results show that the introduction of a PHV program significantly changes the use of local public resources away from nursing homes, while increasing the utilization of home-based care. Further, PHVs lead to a decline in hospital admissions by 8 percent – whereas treatments for mental health conditions remain unaffected. Mortality is reduced by 4 percent in the age group 80 and above.
Subjects: 
preventive home visits
long-term care
natural experiment
primary prevention
JEL: 
C23
H75
I18
J14
J18
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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