The Importance of Preventive Medical Care for Managing Chronic Disease

We are grateful to The Division of Primary Care at Chile’s Ministry of Health, and in particular to Irma Vargas and Ximena Barros-Rubio for their expertise, suggestions, and feedback. We thank Priyanka Taneja, Madhav Nekkar, and Emma Sun for the outstanding research assistance. We thank Crist ́obal Otero for the helpful comments. We gratefully acknowledge research support from UC Berkeley’s Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging - NIH 2P30AG012839 and the National Institute On Aging (NIA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under Award Number R01AG065482. Claire Boone was supported by the Tinker Foundation, UC Berkeley’s Institute for International Studies, the Center for Global Public Health, and the NIH NIA under grant award T32 AG000243 (PI: David Meltzer, MD, PhD). Pablo Celhay gratefully acknowledges financial support from ANID, FONDECYT Regular 1221461, and financial support from ANID, PIA/PUENTE AFB220003. The contents of this paper are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH/NIA, nor those of the National Bureau of Economic Research. The authors declare that they have no financial or material interests in the results of this study.