How common is the 'prominence effect'? Additional evidence to Whynes et al.

abstract：:This paper exploits state health education (HED) reforms as quasi-natural experiments to estimate the causal impact of HED received by children on their parents' physical activity. We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the period 1999-2005 merged with data on state HED reforms from the National Assoc...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Berniell L,de la Mata D,Valdés N

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excess demand is a pervasive feature of health care systems that use global budgets to pay for hospital care, regardless of the amount of money spent by those systems. This paper presents a theory that explains this feature of global budgets. The theory emphasizes that hospital administrators control the allocation of...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Feldman R,Lobo F

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contracts have played a central role in public sector reforms in developed countries over the last decade, and research increasingly highlights their varied nature. In low and middle income countries the use of contracts is encouraged but little attention has been paid to features of the setting that may influence the...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Palmer N,Mills A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A three-equation model is used to estimate the multiple effects of antiretroviral medications (ARVs) on the quality of life (QoL) of the elderly with HIV in New York City. The transmission mechanism involves the ARVs having a direct effect on QoL via the side effects of the medications and two other effects (one indir...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Brent RJ

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

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：:This paper explores and critically discusses some of the methodological limitations of using the number-needed-to-treat (NNT) in economic evaluation. We argue that NNT may be a straightforward measure of benefit when the effect of an intervention is immediate, but that serious problems arise when the effect is delay r...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Kristiansen IS,Gyrd-Hansen D

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：: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 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：:This paper examines the effect of competition on the behaviour of Australian general practitioners. The paper represents a considerable improvement on the methods of previous studies by using a random effects probit model in a multilevel modelling framework to obtain a more robust estimate of the effect of GP density,...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Scott A,Shiell A

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contingent valuation (CV) has been criticised for being too hypothetical, with expressed values bearing little relation to actual values. The magnitude of this divergence, however, depends upon how realistic and believable the contingent market is. This paper presents an overview of five key aspects in the constructio...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Smith RD

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:China's recent and ambitious health care reform involves a shift from the reliance on markets to the reaffirmation of the central role of the state in the financing and provision of services. In collaboration with the Government of the Ningxia province, we examined the impact of two key features of the reform on healt...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Powell-Jackson T,Yip WC,Han W

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-distance travellers could be important to any cost-benefit assessment of policies to increase or improve local resources. This study examines the out-of-area hospital admission pattern for patients with Ambulatory Care Sensitive (ACS) conditions, also known as preventable conditions. The availability of local...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Basu J,Friedman B

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using primary data from Laos, we compare a broad range of different types of shocks in terms of their incidence, distribution between the poor and the better off, idiosyncrasy, costs, coping responses, and self-reported impacts on well-being. Health shocks are more common than most other shocks, more concentrated amon...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Wagstaff A,Lindelow M

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Willan and Eckermann describe a method for dealing with heterogeneity in value of information (VOI) calculations for prioritising and designing new research. Their article raises three fundamental (inter-related) issues for VOI methods: (1) how to make sense of the concept of uncertainty in a cost-effectiveness analys...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Welton N,Ades AE

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cost-effectiveness acceptability curves have become a common way of presenting the results of probabilistic sensitivity analysis. However, these curves do not provide information on what the loss of welfare or net benefit (NB) is for cases where a given intervention is not the optimal one. We describe an alternate app...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Bala MV,Zarkin GA,Mauskopf J

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Income inequality hypotheses propose that income differentials and/or income distributions have a detrimental effect on health. This previously well accepted relationship between inequality and health has recently come under scrutiny; some claim that it is a statistical artefact, arguing that aggregate level data are ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Lorgelly PK,Lindley J

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：: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：: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：:Previous research has found that high school physical education (PE) requirements are largely ineffective at reducing youth body weight. However, these studies were forced to rely on cross-state variation in PE requirements to identify their impacts, raising concerns that estimated policy effects may be confounded by ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Sabia JJ,Nguyen TT,Rosenberg O

更新日期：2017-10-01 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 Future Elderly Model (FEM) is a microsimulation model designed to forecast health status, longevity, and a variety of economic outcomes. Compared to traditional actuarial models, microsimulation models provide greater opportunities for policy forecasting and richer detail, but they typically build upon smaller sam...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Leaf DE,Tysinger B,Goldman DP,Lakdawalla DN

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous work (Health Econ. 2004; 13: 417-427; Health Econ. 2006; 15: 319-322) has suggested that survivor consumption costs should be included in cost-utility analyses only if the corresponding utility gains are also included. Here, it is further argued that the welfare implications of survivor consumption are alr...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Nyman JA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we estimate and validate a three-period sequential model of older workers' labor force transitions following a health/disability shock, using retrospective information from Spanish cross-section data. Central to the analysis are the effects of the various disabilities and their severity. We find that the...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Jiménez-Martín S,Labeaga JM,Prieto CV

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We exploit the similarity between the problem of risk adjustment with prospective reimbursement schemes in the health care sector and the problem of fair compensation analysed in the social choice literature. The starting point is the distinction between two sets of variables in the explanation of medical expenditures...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Schokkaert E,Dhaene G,Van de Voorde C

更新日期：1998-08-01 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：:Brouwer and colleagues [1] argue that the reasons for specifying an equal discount rate for health outcomes and costs in the recent guidance on methods of technology appraisal issued by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) [2] is both opaque and wrong. They argue that a lower rate should apply to heal...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Claxton K,Sculpher M,Culyer A,McCabe C,Briggs A,Akehurst R,Buxton M,Brazier J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I exploit substantial increases in the earned income tax credit to study how a policy-driven change in family income affects childhood obesity. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, my difference-in-differences estimates indicate that the probability of being obese increased by 3 percentage points amon...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Jo Y

更新日期：2018-07-01 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