Construction of the contingent valuation market in health care: a critical assessment.

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：RATIONALE:There are many interventions for HIV/AIDS that require that people know their status and hence require a HIV test. Testing that is driven by a desire to prevent the spread of the disease often has an indirect effect on others. These external effects need to be identified, quantified and included as part of th...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Brent RJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this paper is to study the impact of risk perception and diagnostic information on medical prevention decisions. The intertemporal preferences of individuals are represented by a model of recursive rank dependent utility, which has the advantage of allowing risk perceptions to vary over time and with ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Etner J,Jeleva M

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper analyses the impact of sugar availability/intake on diabetes expenditure and on total health care expenditure. Building this macroeconomic analysis upon the literature on the determinants of health care expenditure, we estimate a dynamic panel data model over a sample of 156 countries for the period 1995-20...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Castro V

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both incremental cost-effectiveness ratios and net benefits have been proposed as summary measures for use in cost-effectiveness analyses. We present a unifying proof of the optimality and equivalence of ICER- and net benefit-based approaches to the health resource allocation problem, including both 'fixed budget' and...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Laska EM,Meisner M,Siegel C,Stinnett AA

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this paper is to measure the marginal change in facility-level costs of medical care for children under five due to an increase in service quality achieved through the integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) strategy. Since the beneficial effects of IMCI training on child health outcomes are due ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Bishai D,Mirchandani G,Pariyo G,Burnham G,Black R

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:A variety of contract types are used in the placement of elderly people in residential and nursing care homes in the UK. Contracts vary according to how and when providers are paid. Among other things, prices can be made contingent on the total quantity of service to be purchased and on production cost characteristics...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Forder J,Netten A

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of the obesity epidemic in developing countries is still poorly understood. It has been prominently argued that economic development provides a natural interpretation of the growth in obesity. This paper tests the main aggregated predictions of the theoretical framework to analyze obesity. Average body weig...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Deuchert E,Cabus S,Tafreschi D

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partnerships between government and non-state actors that aim to enhance the quality or efficiency of service delivery are increasingly common in today's development policy landscape. We investigate the impacts of such an approach using data from an experimental supportive intervention to India's malaria control progr...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Das A,Friedman J,Kandpal E

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data from Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we investigate the determinants of voluntary private health insurance (VPHI) among the over 50s in 11 European countries and their effects on healthcare spending. First, we find that the main determinants of VPHI are different in each country, ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Paccagnella O,Rebba V,Weber G

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels of alcohol consumption tend to be similar for individuals living in the same household. This may be because: (a) individuals with similar characteristics collect in households (correlated effects); (b) individuals in the same household are influenced by common factors (exogenous effects); and/or (c) the consump...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Rice N,Sutton M

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a large number of situations, activities in health care have to be measured in terms of outcome and cost. However, the cases where outcome is fully captured by a single measure are rather few, so that one uses some index for outcome, computed by weighing together several outcome measures using subjective and somewh...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Bjørner J,Keiding H

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：: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：:Debate about the monetary value of a quality-adjusted life year (QALY) has existed in the health economics literature for some time. More recently, concern about such a value has arisen in UK health policy. This paper reports on an attempt to 'model' a willingness-to-pay-based value of a QALY from the existing value o...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Mason H,Jones-Lee M,Donaldson C

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Korea's rapid population aging has been considered as a major factor in increase of healthcare expenditure (HCE). However, there were no clear empirical evidences in Korea that show if population aging has a significant impact on HCE. To examine the 'red herring' argument, this study used Heckman, two-part, and augmen...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Hyun KR,Kang S,Lee S

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：:At the start of the 1990s, the economic situation in Finland deteriorated radically. During the depression (1991-93), health care expenditure decreased by about 10%, and was associated with considerable changes in Finnish health care. This paper reports studies of the determinants of use of physician services in Finla...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Häkkinen U,Rosenqvist G,Aro S

更新日期：1996-09-01 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：:The objective of this paper is to provide two-stage game models explaining the 'Generic Competition Paradox' that demonstrates an increase of brand-name drug price in response to generic entry. Under the assumption that there are two groups of consumers who are segmented by their insurance status, high insurance cover...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Kong Y

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and health is well documented for developed countries, less evidence has been presented for developing countries. The aim of this paper is to analyse this relationship at the household level for Fiji, a developing country in the South Pacific, using original...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Lordan G,Soto EJ,Brown RP,Correa-Valez I

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I study the effect of prescription drug essential health benefits (EHB) requirements from the Affordable Care Act on prescription drug formularies of health insurance marketplace plans. The EHB regulates the number of drugs covered but leaves other dimensions (cost sharing and utilization management) of the formulary ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Andersen M

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviours (drinking and smoking). Lottery winnings allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Apouey B,Clark AE

更新日期：2015-05-01 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 Affordable Care Act (ACA) has provided millions of Americans with medical insurance but may have led to an increase in retirement among older individuals who are utilizing the newly available coverage options as a substitute for employer-provided insurance. Using data from the American Community Survey from 2009-2...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Wood K

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:In many health care markets, physicians can respond to changes in reimbursement schemes by changing the volume (volume response) and the composition of services provided (substitution response). We examine the relative importance of these two behavioral responses in the context of physician drug dispensing in Switzerl...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Burkhard D,Schmid CPR,Wüthrich K

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is the first to investigate both the technical and cost efficiency of more than 1500 German general hospitals. More specifically, it deals with the question how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure, and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs to nor outputs of the productio...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Herr A

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper directly compares the relative sensitivity of time-trade-off (TTO) and willingness-to-pay (WTP) values obtained for various levels of change in health status. This was achieved by administering a TTO and WTP survey to a population of 50 subjects, assessing their valuation of various degrees of change in hea...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Smith RD

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00