Using multilevel models for assessing the variability of multinational resource use and cost data.

abstract：:Empirical estimates of price elasticities of demand (PED) for pharmaceuticals suggest that they are relatively price inelastic. However, in many settings, a medication and its substitutes and complements face simultaneous differential changes in prices that affect the observed "composite" PED. We exploit an implementa...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Yeung K,Basu A,Hansen RN,Sullivan SD

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the 10% to 15% of American married couples who experience reproductive problems, in vitro fertilization (IVF) is the leading technologically advanced treatment procedure. However, IVF's expense may prevent many couples from receiving treatment, and those who are treated may take an overly aggressive approach to re...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Hamilton BH,McManus B

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between health care expenditure and health outcomes has been the subject of recent academic inquiry in order to inform cost-effectiveness thresholds for health technology assessment agencies. Previous studies in public health systems have relied upon data aggregated at the national or regional level; ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Watson S,Arulampalam W,Petrou S,NESCOP.

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：:Panel datasets provide a rich source of information for health economists, offering the scope to control for individual heterogeneity and to model the dynamics of individual behaviour. However the qualitative or categorical measures of outcome often used in health economics create special problems for estimating econo...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Contoyannis P,Jones AM,Leon-Gonzalez R

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：:In 1996, free choice of health insurers was introduced to the German social health insurance system. One objective was to increase efficiency through competition. A crucial precondition for effective competition among health insurers is that consumers search for lower-priced health insurers. We test this hypothesis by...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Tamm M,Tauchmann H,Wasem J,Gress S

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consumer dissatisfaction with the quality and limitations of managed health care led to rapid disenrollment from managed care plans and demands for regulation between 1998 and 2003. Managed care organizations, particularly health maintenance organizations (HMOs), now face quality and coverage mandates that restrict th...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Dugan J

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonlinear price schedules generally have heterogeneous effects on health-care demand. We develop and apply a finite mixture bivariate probit model to analyze whether there are heterogeneous reactions to the introduction of a nonlinear price schedule in the German statutory health insurance system. In administrative in...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Farbmacher H,Ihle P,Schubert I,Winter J,Wuppermann A

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Though risk adjustment is necessary in order to make equitable comparisons of resource utilization in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction patients, there is little in the literature that can be practically applied without access to clinical records or specialized registries. The aim of this study is to show t...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Evans E,Imanaka Y,Sekimoto M,Ishizaki T,Hayashida K,Fukuda H,Oh EH

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：: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：:We estimated lifetime costs of publicly funded social care, covering services such as residential and nursing care homes, domiciliary care and meals. Like previous studies, we constructed microsimulation models. However, our transition probabilities were estimated from longitudinal, linked administrative health and so...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Steventon A,Roberts A

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Government projections of future health care expenditures--a great concern given the aging baby-boom generation--are based on econometric regressions that control explicitly for age but do not control for end-of-life expenditures. Because expenditures increase dramatically on average at the end of life, predictions of...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Stearns SC,Norton EC

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper combined data collected from war time government records with survey data including background characteristics, such as factors that affected eligibility, to examine the adult depression outcomes of individuals who were evacuated from Finland to temporary foster care in Sweden during World War II. Using war...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Santavirta N,Santavirta T

更新日期：2014-03-01 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 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

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：: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：:This paper empirically investigates the relationship between the health care expenditure of end-of-life patients and hospital characteristics in Taiwan where (i) hospitals of different ownership differ in their financial incentives; (ii) patients are free to choose their providers; and (iii) health care services are p...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Chang S,He Y,Hsieh CR

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：: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：:The prescription drug user fee program provides additional resources to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at the expense of regulated firms. Those resources accelerate the review of new drugs. Faster approvals allow firms to realize profits sooner, and the program is supported politically by industry. However, pub...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Wilmoth DR

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The assessment of health states considered to be worse than dead is a controversial issue. OBJECTIVE:To investigate how health states are valued when they are close to dead. Differences between adjacent states are compared with the differences between the first positive/first negative state with death. MET...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Stalmeier PF,Busschbach JJ,Lamers LM,Krabbe PF

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the effects of inherited socioeconomic characteristics on markers of unhealthy bodyweight. Taking Australian microdata from 2007 to 2013, we show that approximately 4% of the variation in outcomes is determined by factors beyond an individual's control, such as their race, gender, and social class. Paternal s...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Balasooriya NN,Bandara JS,Rohde N

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Waiting times for specialist consultation and non-emergency surgery are often considered an equitable rationing mechanism in the public healthcare sector, because access to care is not based on socioeconomic status. This study tests empirically this claim using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Siciliani L,Verzulli R

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：:How donor organs are allocated for transplant can affect their scarcity. In 2008, Israel's Parliament passed an Organ Transplantation Law granting priority on organ donor waiting lists to individuals who had previously registered as organ donors. Beginning in November 2010, public awareness campaigns advertised the pr...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Stoler A,Kessler JB,Ashkenazi T,Roth AE,Lavee J

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：: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