The Economics of Preterm Delivery

Jeannette Rogowski

ResearchPosted on rand.org 1998Published in: Prenatal and Neonatal Medicine, v. 3, 1998, p. 16-19

This paper summarizes what is known about the costs associated with low birth weight and discusses how these estimates might change due to advances in medical technology as well as changes in the health care market-place. It also addresses the question of the economic burden of low birth weight, that is, who pays for the economic costs associated with low birth weight births.

Read More

Topics

Document Details

  • Copyright: Parthenon Publishing, part of the Taylor and Francis Group
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 1998
  • Pages: 4
  • Document Number: EP-199800-22

This publication is part of the RAND external publication series. Many RAND studies are published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, as chapters in commercial books, or as documents published by other organizations.

RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.