Preventive Home Visits

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CINCH Series ; No. 2019/07

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models ; State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions ; Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health ; Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination ; Demographic Economics: Public Policy
• Subject: preventive home visits ; long-term care ; natural experiment ; primary prevention

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bannenberg, Norman ; Førland, Oddvar ; Iversen, Tor ; Karlsson, Martin ; Øien, Henning
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Duisburg-Essen, CINCH - Health Economics Research Center
• (where): Essen
• (when): 2019

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.17185/duepublico/70991
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/270584
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET