Estimating survival gain for economic evaluations with survival time as principal endpoint: a cost-effectiveness analysis of adding early hormonal therapy to radiotherapy in patients with locally advanced prostate cancer.

abstract：:Prescription drugs are the third largest component of U.S. healthcare expenditures. The 2006 Medicare Part D and the 2010 Affordable Care Act are catalysts for further growths in utilization becuase of insurance expansion effects. This research investigating the determinants of prescription drug utilization is timely,...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Nianogo T,Okunade A,Fofana D,Chen W

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the dynamic relationships between economic status and health measures using data from 8 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1999 to 2013. Health measures are self-rated health (SRH) and functional limitations; economic status measures are labor income (earnings), family income, and net wealth. ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Meraya AM,Dwibedi N,Tan X,Innes K,Mitra S,Sambamoorthi U

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the latest published data from Tobacco Advisory Council surveys, this paper re-evaluates the question of whether or not increases in cigarette taxation are regressive in the United Kingdom. The extended data set shows no evidence of increasing price-elasticity by social class as found in a major previous study. ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Borren P,Sutton M

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The usual implementation of contingent valuation (CV), in the context of priorities setting for allocation of public funds in health care, is to develop as many surveys as there are programmes, i.e. to perform separate evaluations (SE). In the EuroWill project, three health programmes (for heart disease, breast cancer...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Luchini S,Protière C,Moatti JP

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2003 Health Economics paper by Dolan, Olsen, Menzel and Richardson on 'An inquiry into the different perspectives that can be used when eliciting preferences in health' presents a conceptual framework of six perspectives along two dimensions: preferences (personal, social, and socially inclusive personal) and cont...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Tsuchiya A,Watson V

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we examine the goals and effects of health-care policy in the Netherlands over the period 1980--2000. During this period Dutch health-care policy is marked by a peculiar combination of increasingly stringent cost-containment policies alongside a persistent pursuit of market-oriented reforms. The main goa...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Schut FT,Van de Ven WP

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Senegal is the only African country where sex work is legal and regulated by a health policy. Senegalese female sex workers (FSWs) are required to register with a health facility and to attend monthly routine health checks aimed at testing and treating sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Compliance to those routin...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Ito S,Lépine A,Treibich C

更新日期：2018-11-01 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 estimates the impact of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014 on the decision to be self-employed. Using data from the Current Population Survey, we employ two identification strategies. Utilizing prereform variation in state nongroup health insurance market regulations, we find that t...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Heim BT,Yang LK

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The derivation of population norms using simple generic health-related quality of life measures to inform policy has been recommended in the literature. This letter illustrates the derivation of population norms for the SF-6D in the United Kingdom. It uses a sample of 22,166 respondents from the 2010 wave of the study...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： van den Berg B

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been recent controversy about whether aid directed specifically to health has caused recipient governments to reallocate their own funds to non-health areas. At the same time, general budget support (GBS) has been increasing. GBS allows governments to set their own priorities, but little is known about how t...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Fernandes Antunes A,Xu K,James CD,Saksena P,Van de Maele N,Carrin G,Evans DB

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2011, the USA had the second highest teen birth rate of any developed nation, according to the World Bank, . In an effort to lower teen pregnancy rates, several states have enacted policies requiring abstinence-based sex education. In this study, we utilize a difference-in-differences research design to analyze the...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Carr JB,Packham A

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the impact of tobacco prices on decisions to initiate and quit smoking have, to date, largely been restricted to developed countries. Such analyses, when set in developing countries, are complicated by the availability of a wide range of tobacco products that are nicotine substitutes for cigarettes. This st...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Laxminarayan R,Deolalikar A

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cost-effectiveness of a series of mutually exclusive colorectal cancer screening programmes with varying screening interval and target group are analysed. Costs and effects for 60 possible screening programmes are simulated on the basis of data collected from a randomized trial initiated in 1985 in Funen County, D...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Gyrd-Hansen D,Søgaard J,Kronborg O

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The appropriate thresholds for decisions on the cost-effectiveness of medical interventions remain controversial, especially in 'end-of-life' situations. Evidence of the values placed on different types of health gain by the general public is limited. METHODS:Across nine European countries, 17,657 people we...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Pennington M,Baker R,Brouwer W,Mason H,Hansen DG,Robinson A,Donaldson C,EuroVaQ Team.

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) of behavioral interventions typically use physical outcome criteria. However, any progress in cognitive antecedents of behavior change may be seen as a beneficial outcome of an intervention. The aim of this study is to explore the feasibility and validity of incorporating cognitive p...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Prenger R,Pieterse ME,Braakman-Jansen LM,Feenstra TL,Smit ES,Hoving C,de Vries H,van Ommeren JK,Evers SM,van der Palen J

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have taken advantage of a natural experiment to measure the impact of the phased abolition of prescription co-payments in Wales. We investigated 3 study periods covering the phased abolition: from £6 to £4, £4 to £3, and £3 to £0. A difference-in-difference modelling was adopted and applied to monthly UK general pr...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Alam MF,Cohen D,Dunstan F,Hughes D,Routledge P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bidding game (BG) method of contingent valuation is one way to increase the precision of willingness to pay (WTP) estimates relative to the single dichotomous choice approach. However, there is evidence that the method may lead to incentive incompatible responses and be associated with starting point bias. While p...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： McNamee P,Ternent L,Gbangou A,Newlands D

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 2017, many US cities have implemented taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages to decrease consumption of sugary beverages and raise revenue. We analyze household receipt data to examine the impact of taxes on households' beverage purchases in the four largest US cities with such taxes: Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Cawley J,Frisvold D,Jones D

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper estimates the monetary value of providing informal care by means of a well-being valuation method. This is done by assessing the compensating variation necessary to maintain the same level of well-being after an informal caregiver provides an extra hour of informal care. The informal caregiver's well-being ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： van den Berg B,Ferrer-I-Carbonell A

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a first effort to quantify the contribution of different factors in explaining racial difference in low birthweight rate (LBW). Mother's health, child characteristics, prenatal care, socioeconomic status (SES), and the socioeconomic and healthcare environment of mother's community are important inputs into the...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Lhila A,Long S

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sector wide approach (SWAp) emerged during the 1990s as a mechanism for managing aid from the multiplicity of development partners that operate in the recipient country's health, education or agricultural sectors. Health SWAps aim to give increased control to recipient governments, allowing greater domestic influe...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Sweeney R,Mortimer D

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I have developed a random effects probit model in which the distribution of the random intercept is approximated by a discrete density. Monte Carlo results show that only three to four points of support are required for the discrete density to closely mimic normal and chi-squared densities and provide unbiased estimat...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Deb P

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper uses a full-information maximum likelihood estimation procedure, the Discrete Factor Method, to estimate the relationship between birthweight and prenatal care. This technique controls for the potential biases surrounding both the sample selection of the pregnancy-resolution decision and the endogeneity of ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Rous JJ,Jewell RT,Brown RW

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gender differences in drinking patterns are potentially important for public policies, especially policies that rely extensively on higher alcohol taxes and prices. This paper presents a systematic review of alcohol prices and gender differences in drinking and heavy drinking by adults and young adults. Starting with ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Nelson JP

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focuses on Guizhou Province, a region with difficult geographical conditions and poor economic development, to examine the effect of rainfall shocks on contemporaneous infant health and long-run socioeconomic outcomes in China. The study results indicate that negative rainfall shocks are robustly correlated...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Lin Y,Liu F,Xu P

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cost-effectiveness acceptability curves (CEACs) have become widely used in applied health technology assessment and at the same time are criticized as unreliable decision-making tool. In this paper we show how using CEACs differs from maximizing expected net benefit (NB) and when it can lead to inconsistent decisions....

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Jakubczyk M,Kamiński B

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical evidence from US studies suggests that female physicians earn less than their male counterparts, on average. The earnings gap does not disappear when individual and market characteristics are controlled for. This paper investigates whether a gender earnings difference can also be observed in a health-care sy...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Theurl E,Winner H

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the ratification of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2004, Pakistan has made modest but continued progress in implementing various tobacco control measures. By 2014, substantial progress was achieved in areas of monitoring, mass media antitobacco campaigns, and advertising...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Datta BK,Husain MJ,Fazlul I

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this paper is to briefly outline a Bayesian approach to cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA). Historically, frequentists have been cautious of Bayesian methodology, which is often held as synonymous with a subjective approach to statistical analysis. In this paper, the potential overlap between Bayesian and fr...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Briggs AH

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00