The relative sensitivity of willingness-to-pay and time-trade-off to changes in health status: an empirical investigation.

abstract：:Using 11 years of county-level panel data, fixed effect models are estimated to evaluate the impact of the Safe Motherhood (SM) Program in China. Propensity score matching is used to select comparable factual and counterfactual counties. Out of 2013 counties in China, 283 are selected for the treatment group and 1051 ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Feng XL,Shi G,Wang Y,Xu L,Luo H,Shen J,Yin H,Guo Y

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Waiting times are a major policy concern in publicly funded health systems across OECD countries. Economists have argued that, in the presence of excess demand, waiting times act as nonmonetary prices to bring demand for and supply of health care in equilibrium. Using administrative data disaggregated by region and su...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Riganti A,Siciliani L,Fiorio CV

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the difference-in-difference-in-differences method, we examine the effect of the National Health Insurance (NHI) on mortality, self-assessed health, and functional limitations of the elderly and seek to determine whether the effect is spread equally across health classes. We find that the NHI only has an effect ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Keng SH,Sheu SJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we used stochastic frontier cost functions to estimate the teaching and research costs of Finnish hospitals. Average and marginal cost estimates were used to evaluate the current reimbursement system as well as to calculate the total expenditure on teaching and research in hospitals. The efficiency adjus...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Linna M,Häkkinen U,Linnakko E

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited health care budgets have emphasized the need for providers to use resources efficiently. Accordingly, there has been a rapid increase in the number of economic evaluations of communicable disease health programmes in developing countries, as there is a need to implement evidence-based policy decisions. However...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Walker D,Fox-Rushby JA

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of health services employment in the United States is modelled using ARIMA analysis, and related to the growth in total U.S. employment. It is argued that specific features of the medical care sector (licensed professional manpower, non-profit firms, third-party financing) create institutional rigidities wh...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Kendix M,Getzen TE

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the results from two surveys designed to explore whether an application of Harsanyi's principle of choice form behind a veil of ignorance (VEI) can be used in order to measure the health of populations. This approach was tentatively recommended by Murray et al. (Bull. World Health Organ 2000; 78: 981-994; Su...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Pinto-Prades JL,Abellán-Perpiñán JM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Norway specialized health services are provided both by public hospitals and by privately practicing specialists who have a contract with the public sector. A patient's co-payment is the same irrespective of the type of provider he visits. The ambition of equity in the allocation of medical care is high among all p...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Iversen T,Kopperud GS

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cost-effectiveness acceptability curves have become a common way of presenting the results of probabilistic sensitivity analysis. However, these curves do not provide information on what the loss of welfare or net benefit (NB) is for cases where a given intervention is not the optimal one. We describe an alternate app...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Bala MV,Zarkin GA,Mauskopf J

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous paper, the reliability of willingness-to-pay (WTP) values was found to be an increasing function of the size of WTP expressed. Here, the results of a qualitative exercise conducted alongside this quantitative study are presented. The results of this exercise suggest that higher WTP values may require mor...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Smith RD

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health utility indices (HUIs) are widely used in economic evaluation. The best-worst scaling (BWS) method is being used to value dimensions of HUIs. However, little is known about the properties of this method. This paper investigates the validity of the BWS method to develop HUI, comparing it to another ordinal valua...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Krucien N,Watson V,Ryan M

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence suggests that maternal and offspring smoking behaviour is correlated. Little is known about the mechanisms through which this intergenerational transfer occurs. This paper explores the role of time preferences. Although time preference is likely to be heritable and correlated with health investments, its role...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Brown H,van der Pol M

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we examine the 'catch-up' hypothesis, that is, whether or not per capita health expenditures of the UK, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, and Spain converge to the per capita health expenditures of the USA over the period 1960-2000. We propose a framework to examine convergence of health expenditures and use ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Narayan PK

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The causal association between absolute income and health is well-established; however, the relationship between income inequality and health is not. The conclusions from the received studies vary across the region or country studied and/or the methodology employed. Using the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in A...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Bechtel L,Lordan G,Rao DS

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper estimates the causal effect of perceived job insecurity - that is, the fear of involuntary job loss - on health in a sample of men from 22 European countries. We rely on an original instrumental variable approach on the basis of the idea that workers perceive greater job security in countries where employme...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Caroli E,Godard M

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multinational economic evaluations often calculate a single measure of cost-effectiveness using cost data pooled across several countries. To assess the validity of pooling international cost data the reasons for cost variation across countries need to be assessed. Previously, ordinary least-squares (OLS) regression m...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Grieve R,Nixon R,Thompson SG,Normand C

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Appendectomy is a common and relatively simple procedure to remove an inflamed appendix, but the rate of appendectomy varies widely across Europe. This paper investigates factors that explain differences in resource use for appendectomy. We analysed 106,929 appendectomy patients treated in 939 hospitals in 10 European...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Mason A,Or Z,Renaud T,Street A,Thuilliez J,Ward P,EuroDRG group.

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many OECD countries have replaced per-diem hospital reimbursement with lump sum payments by diagnosis-related groups. This study analyzes hospital responses to a large-scale refinement of reimbursement practices in Germany on January 1, 2006, in which regulating authorities introduce reimbursements by treatment intens...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Bäuml M,Kümpel C

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterogeneity in reporting of health by socio-economic and demographic characteristics potentially biases the measurement of health disparities. We use anchoring vignettes to identify socio-demographic differences in the reporting of health in Indonesia, India and China. Homogeneous reporting by socio-demographic grou...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Bago d'Uva T,Van Doorslaer E,Lindeboom M,O'Donnell O

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem of estimating expected outcomes for the economic evaluation of treatments for which the outcome of principal interest is (quality adjusted) survival time has so far not received sufficient attention in the literature. The best estimate of expected survival is mean survival time, but with censored survival ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Neymark N,Adriaenssen I,Gorlia T,Caleo S,Bolla M

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Authors of benefit-incidence analyses (BIA) have to impute subsidies using assumptions about the relationship between unobserved subsidies 'captured' by the household and what can be observed at the household and aggregate levels. This paper shows that one of the two assumptions used in BIA studies to date will necess...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Wagstaff A

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Economic theory suggests that income growth could lead to changes in consumption quantity and quality as the spending on a commodity changes. Similarly, the volume and quality of healthcare consumption could rise with incomes because of demographic changes, usage of innovative medical technologies, and other factors. ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Chen W,Okunade A,Lubiani GG

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the main concerns about capitation-based reimbursement systems is that tertiary institutions may be underfunded due to insufficient reimbursements of more complicated cases. We test this hypothesis with a data set from New Zealand that, in 2003, introduced a capitation system where public healthcare provider fu...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Shin S,Schumacher C,Feess E

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the relationship between changes in income inequality and the provision of resources in a health care system (the public-private mix). Specifically, we investigate whether increases in income inequality, as separate from overall income levels and growth, have changed the availability of both privat...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Isabelle M,Stabile M

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assess the impact on teenage childbearing as well as student knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of a typical HIV/AIDS teacher training program in the Cameroon. Applying a regression discontinuity design identification strategy based on the key administrative criterion that determined program deployment, we find tha...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Arcand JL,Wouabe ED

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this paper is to determine the price sensitivity of smokers in their consumption of cigarettes, using evidence from a major increase in California cigarette prices due to Proposition 10 and the Tobacco Settlement. The study sample consists of individual survey data from Behavioral Risk Factor Survey (...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Sheu ML,Hu TW,Keeler TE,Ong M,Sung HY

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistical analysis of cost data is often difficult because of highly skewed data resulting from a few patients who incur high costs relative to the majority of patients. When the objective is to predict the cost for an individual patient, the literature suggests that one should choose a regression model based on the...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Andersen CK,Andersen K,Kragh-Sørensen P

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We take explicit account of the way in which the supply of physicians and patients in the economy affects the design of physician remuneration schemes, highlighting the three-way trade-off between quality of care, access, and cost. Both physicians and patients are heterogeneous. Physicians choose both the number of pa...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Barham V,Milliken O

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper focuses on the contrast between describing the benefit of a healthcare intervention as gain in health (QALY-type ideas) or a disability reduction (DALY-type ideas). The background is an apparent convergence in practice of the work conducted under both traditions. In the light of these methodological develop...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Airoldi M,Morton A

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the contingent valuation method for measurement of monetary values of various commodities. However, the validity and reliability of the method need to be examined thoroughly. This paper reports results of a test of scope and question order effects in a contingent v...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Kartman B,Stålhammar NO,Johannesson M

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00