Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/270594 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
CINCH Series No. 2021/04
Publisher: 
University of Duisburg-Essen, CINCH - Health Economics Research Center, Essen
Abstract: 
This paper provides new evidence that preventive health care services delivered at schools and provided at a relatively low cost have positive and lasting impacts. We use variation from a 1999‐reform in Norway that induced substantial differences in the availability of health professionals across municipalities and cohorts. In municipalities with one fewer school nurse per 1,000 schoolage children before the reform there was an increase in the availability of nurses of 35% from the pre‐ to the post‐reform period, attributed to the policy change. The reform reduced teenage pregnancies and increased college attendance for girls. It also reduced the take‐up of welfare benefits by ages 26 and 30 and increased the planned use of primary and specialist health care services at ages 25‐35, without impacts on emergency room admissions. The reform also improved the health of newborns of affected new mothers and reduced the likelihood of miscarriages.
Subjects: 
School Health Services
Teenage Pregnancy
Welfare Dependency
Utilization of Health Services
Health Status Creation-Date: 2021-07-29
JEL: 
H75
I10
I12
I28
I30
I38
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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