Regulation versus practice--the impact of accessibility on the use of specialist health care in Norway.

abstract：:Discrete-time Markov chains have been successfully used to investigate treatment programs and health care protocols for chronic diseases. In these situations, the transition matrix, which describes the natural progression of the disease, is often estimated from a cohort observed at common intervals. Estimation of the ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Craig BA,Sendi PP

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of undocumented migrants in high-income countries has increased in recent decades, imposing considerable political, fiscal, and social pressures on governments. This has fostered discussions on whether and to what extent undocumented migrants should get access to public programs and public benefits. Looking...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Jiménez-Rubio D,Vall Castelló J

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obese children tend to perform worse academically than normal-weight children. If poor cognitive achievement is truly a consequence of childhood obesity, this relationship has significant policy implications. Therefore, an important question is to what extent can this correlation be explained by other factors that joi...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Black N,Johnston DW,Peeters A

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：: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：:Recent years have seen considerable interest in examining the impact of food prices on food consumption and subsequent health consequences. Fiscal policies targeting the relative price of unhealthy foods are frequently put forward as ways to address the obesity epidemic. Conversely, various food subsidy interventions ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Cornelsen L,Green R,Turner R,Dangour AD,Shankar B,Mazzocchi M,Smith RD

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article analyses the role played by childhood circumstances, especially social and family background in explaining health status among older adults. We explore the hypothesis of an intergenerational transmission of health inequalities using the French part of SHARE. As the impact of both social background and par...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Trannoy A,Tubeuf S,Jusot F,Devaux M

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:This research note analyzes differences in the number of absent working days and doctor visits and in their cyclicality between private sector, public sector and self-employed workers. For this purpose, I used large-scale German survey data for the years 1995 to 2007 to estimate random effects negative binomial (count...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Pfeifer C

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper exploits a unique opportunity to evaluate the impact of the quality change in the labor and delivery services brought about by the Mother and Infant Health Project in Ukraine. Employing program evaluation methods, we find that the administrative units participating in the Project have exhibited greater impr...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Nizalova OY,Vyshnya M

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data from a survey of 800 managers in 12 industries, we find empirical support for the hypothesis that the cost associated with missed work varies across jobs according to the ease with which a manager can find a perfect replacement for the absent worker, the extent to which the worker functions as part of a tea...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Nicholson S,Pauly MV,Polsky D,Sharda C,Szrek H,Berger ML

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently acquired ability to identify 97% of CF carriers in an Israeli Ashkenazi population, prompts an evaluation of a nationwide screening programme. In 1993, the programme would first screen and counsel 9,261 parents, then 396 spouses of carrier parents and finally screen 16.5 fetuses where both parents are car...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Ginsberg G,Blau H,Kerem E,Springer C,Kerem BS,Akstein E,Greenberg A,Kolumbos A,Abeliovich D,Gazit E

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Public health programmes tend to be complex and may combine social strategies with aspects of empowerment, capacity building and knowledge across sectors. The nature of the programmes means that some effects are likely to occur outside the healthcare sector; this breadth impacts on the choice of health and non-health ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Greco G,Lorgelly P,Yamabhai I

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：:Recently, a number of papers have brought up the issue of how to make cost-effectiveness (CE) studies stochastic, i.e. how to obtain confidence intervals for CE ratios. In this note we present a bootstrap procedure for estimating bias-corrected confidence intervals for CE ratios. The bootstrap procedure is tested in a...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Tambour M,Zethraeus N

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior studies have consistently found the incidence and persistence of depression to be higher among persons with low incomes, but causal mechanisms for this relationship are not well understood. This study uses the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort to test several hypotheses about the robustness of th...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Zimmerman FJ,Katon W

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The introduction of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) in rural China has been the most rapid and dramatic extension of health insurance coverage in the developing world in this millennium. The literature to date has mainly used the uneven rollout of NCMS across counties as a way of identifying its effects on a...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Hou Z,Van de Poel E,Van Doorslaer E,Yu B,Meng Q

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates the welfare benefits of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS), the main public health insurance plan for the rural population in China. The findings show that the value of the NCMS to recipients is slightly lower than the government's costs of implementation, ranging from 0.79 to 0.97 per RMB ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Sun JY

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic violations of expected utility theory (EU) have been reported in the context of both money and health outcomes. Rank-dependent utility theory (RDU) is currently the most popular and influential alternative theory of choice under circumstances of risk. This paper reports a test of the descriptive performance...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Oliver A

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research assessing the relationship between government health expenditure and development assistance for health channeled to governments (DAHG) has not considered that this relationship may depend on whether DAHG is increasing or decreasing. We explore this issue using general method of moments estimation and a panel ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Dieleman JL,Hanlon M

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laws mandating that individuals wear a seat belt have the presumed goal of reducing motor vehicle accident fatalities, but the prevailing view is that they may reduce the number of organs available. I provide a conceptual model identifying mechanisms whereby the law could either increase or decrease organ donation. Ex...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Brewer B

更新日期：2020-08-03 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：:Social accountability programs are increasingly used to improve the performance of public service providers in low-income settings. Despite their growing popularity, evidence on the effectiveness of social accountability programs remains mixed. In this manuscript, we assess the impact of a social accountability interv...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Francetic I,Fink G,Tediosi F

更新日期：2021-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore the determinants of dental ill-health as measured by the occurrence of caries. A recursive bivariate probit model that was derived from health production and demand theory is employed to model caries, while taking account of dental care use. The data are from a follow-up questionnaire used in a longitudinal...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Nguyen L,Häkkinen U,Knuuttila M,Järvelin MR

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, the determinants of growth of aggregate health expenditures are investigated. The study departs from previous literature in that it looks at differences across countries in growth (and not levels) of health care expenditures. Estimation is made for 24 OECD countries. Health system characteristics usuall...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Barros PP

更新日期：1998-09-01 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 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：:The British Columbia Ministry of Health provides enhanced prescription drug insurance coverage to residents aged 65 and older. This exogenous change in the effective price of prescription drugs is used to investigate aspects of the drug use by seniors. Three sets of issues are of interest. First, what is the effect of...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Grootendorst PV

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicide rates for adolescents have doubled since 1970 and tripled since 1960, even as rates for other age groups have declined. Using a Becker-type model of household production and consumption, we demonstrate conditions under which utility maximizing parents allocate time away from time-intensive commodities like chi...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Mathur VK,Freeman DG

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00