Kris NordstromJan 6, 2023
CALDER Center
How does school-based healthcare affect students? Find out in a new WP by @[email protected] & @[email protected] on telemedicine in schools. The results have important implications for reaching populations that have low access to healthcare. Read the paper here: https://bit.ly/3ZfGrGD
School-Based Healthcare and Absenteeism: Evidence from Telemedicine | CALDER

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“School-Based Healthcare and Absenteeism: Evidence from Telemedicine”
New @[email protected] WP by @[email protected] and @[email protected].
 
New evidence on how school-based healthcare delivered via telemedicine affects student outcomes.
 
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What: This paper investigates the effects of access to school-based healthcare on student outcomes among elementary and middle school students. It focuses on school-based telemedicine provided during the regular school day via private videoconferencing. (1/6)
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Why: Understanding the effects of school-based telemedicine matters because it has the potential to help address long-standing and entrenched gaps in access to healthcare by race, family income, and geography. (2/6)
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Approach: Using data from three districts in NC, the authors produce difference-in-differences and event-study estimates from a context with staggered program adoption that are robust to the presence of heterogeneous treatment effects across groups and over time. (3/6)
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Key finding: access to school-based healthcare reduces the likelihood that a student is chronically absent by 2.5 percentage points (29 percent) and reduces the number of days absent by about 0.8 days (10 percent). (4/6)
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Intriguing: the paper also finds suggestive evidence that access to school-based healthcare reduces violent or weapons-related disciplinary infractions among students (but we found little influence on other forms of misbehavior). (5/6)
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The results suggest that this model for healthcare delivery & access offers the potential to be especially effective in places where large numbers of students have unmet healthcare needs & traditional, brick-and-mortar SBHCs would be logistically or financially infeasible. (6/6)