Illicit drug use and educational attainment.

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：:QALY maximization is sometimes criticized for being 'ageist', because, other things being equal, the elderly, with a shorter life expectancy, will be given lower priority. On the other hand, there are philosophical arguments that, for different reasons, advocate rationing health care to the elderly, even when the size...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Tsuchiya A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) on acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients have increased substantially in the last 12-15 years because of its clinical effectiveness. The expansion of PCI treatment for AMI patients raises two questions: How did PCI utilization rates vary across European regions, and which...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Hagen TP,Häkkinen U,Belicza E,Fatore G,Goude F,EuroHOPE study group.

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:Pharmacy acquisition costs for prescription (Rx ) drugs have been trending below levels implied by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) Consumer Price Index for Rx drugs, with the divergence higher when generic approvals are high. Dropping the first 6 months of generic sales from price indices calculated from pharmac...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Wolff C,Lutter R

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the debate surrounding reform of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) revolves around its insurance market regulation. This paper studies the impact on health insurance coverage of those provisions. Using data from the American Community Survey, years 2008-2015, I focus on individuals, ages 26 ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Wettstein G

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of administrative decentralisation on equity in health and health care is an important unresolved issue in the health policy debate. Predictions from the limited theoretical literature and the relevant empirical research are both insufficient to draw any firm conclusions. Many countries are nevertheless exp...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Jiménez-Rubio D,Smith PC,Van Doorslaer E

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper estimates treatment effects of managed care plans on the utilization of health care services using data from two contemporaneous, nationally representative household surveys from the USA. The paper exploits recent advances in simulation-based econometrics to take the endogeneity of enrollment into managed c...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Deb P,Li C,Trivedi PK,Zimmer DM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, I use nationally representative longitudinal data to examine adolescent depression and educational attainment. First, I examine the individual, family, and community-level determinants of adolescent depression, diagnosis, and treatment. I find that male and minority adolescents who score high on depress...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Fletcher JM

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widespread use of antibiotics is considered the major driving force behind the development of antibiotic resistance. The benefits of exceeding the welfare-maximizing level of antibiotic use are below the costs of resistance created by this excess quantity of antibiotics used, thereby resulting in a welfare deadweight ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Elbasha EH

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：: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：:In recent years, the US health care industry has experienced a rapid growth of managed care, formation of networks, and an integration of hospitals. This paper provides new insights about the quality consequences of this dynamic in US hospital markets. I empirically investigate the impact of managed care and hospital ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Sari N

更新日期：2002-10-01 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

abstract：:This paper estimates the health dimension of the welfare cost of homicides in Brazil incorporating age, gender, educational, and regional heterogeneities. We use a marginal willingness to pay approach to assign monetary values to the welfare cost of increased mortality due to violence. Results indicate that the presen...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Cerqueira D,Soares RR

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is commonly argued that there is a mismatch between drug innovation and disease burden, there is little evidence on the magnitude and direction of such disparities. In this paper, we measure inequality in innovation, by comparing research and development activity with population health and gross domestic p...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Barrenho E,Miraldo M,Smith PC

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：: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：: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

abstract：:The aims of this study were to analyse (1) whether informal care, provided by children or grandchildren to their elderly parents, and formal care are substitutes or complements, and (2) whether this relationship differs across Europe. The analyses were based on cross-sectional data from the newly developed SHARE (Surv...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Bolin K,Lindgren B,Lundborg P

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:This research examines how teenage drug and alcohol use responds to changes in the economy. In contrast to the recent literature confirming pro-cyclical alcohol use among adults, this research offers strong evidence that a weaker economy leads to greater teenage marijuana and hard-drug use and some evidence that a wea...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Arkes J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successive UK governments have pursued a policy of community care for people with learning disabilities which, in the past ten years, has led to a marked change in the nature of residential provision. Research evidence on the costs and quality of alternative forms of community provision is inconclusive and contradicto...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Shiell A,Pettipher C,Raynes N,Wright K

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the impact of language deficiency on the health status of childhood migrants to Australia. Our identification strategy relies on a quasi-experiment comparing immigrants arriving at different ages and from different linguistic origins. In the presence of considerable non-classical measurement error in self-rep...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Clarke A,Isphording IE

更新日期：2017-06-01 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 a recent issue of Health Economics Letters, Whynes et al. report an observation not previously reported in the willingness-to-pay (WTP) literature; that when people are asked to provide an estimate using payment scales they tend to disproportionately select prominent values (that is, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, etc.)...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Covey J,Smith RD

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a random sample of more than 4000 veterans, we test the effects of combat exposure on mental health. We focus on two cohorts of veterans: those who served in Vietnam (1964-1975) and the Gulf War (1990-1991). Combat exposure differed between these groups in intensity, duration and elapsed time since exposure. We ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Gade DM,Wenger JB

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：: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：: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