What is the relationship between income inequality and health? Evidence from the BHPS.

abstract：:Internal rates of return were used to examine the status of pharmacist supply in the United States between the years 1987-1991. Age-earnings profiles were estimated for pharmacists, college graduates and high school graduates. Rates of return to pharmacists and college graduates were compared and a ratio of the pharma...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Mott DA,Kreling DH

更新日期：1994-11-01 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：:With the aging of society, issues concerning the reform of the Dutch health care system are ranked high on the political agenda. Sensible reforms of the health care system for the elderly require a thorough understanding of the health status of the old and of its dynamics preceding death. The health status of the elde...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Portrait F,Lindeboom M,Deeg D

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing interest in the role of social relationships in explaining patterns of health. We contribute to this debate by investigating the impact of social capital on self-reported health for eight countries from the Commonwealth of Independent States. We rely on three indicators of social capital at the indivi...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： d'Hombres B,Rocco L,Suhrcke M,McKee M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perception of health risks and risky health behaviors are closely associated. In this paper, we investigate the accuracy of health risk perceptions among obese individuals, aged 50-62 years. We compare subjective risk perceptions for various diseases elicited in the American Life Panel to individual's objective ri...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Winter J,Wuppermann A

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:This paper provides new empirical evidence on the employment and earning effects of the recent Medicaid expansion. Unlike most existing studies that use a conventional state and year fixed effects approach, our main identification strategy is based on the comparison of employment and wages in contiguous county-pairs i...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Peng L,Guo X,Meyerhoefer CD

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We use National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) data to examine the effects of obesity on wages by gender. Sample means indicate that both men and women experience a persistent obesity wage penalty over the first two decades of their careers. We then control for a standard set of socioeconomic and familial variabl...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Baum CL 2nd,Ford WF

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：: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：: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：:Health production models include participation in physical activity as an input. We investigate the relationship between participation in physical activity and health using a bivariate probit model. Participation is identified with an exclusion restriction on a variable reflecting sense of belonging to the community. ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Humphreys BR,McLeod L,Ruseski JE

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The separation of purchaser and provider in government-funded health systems enables competition to develop between providers. Competition is seen as a means to drive technical efficiencies by providers. While it is difficult to assess comprehensively the level of competition in a market taking into account contestabi...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Ashton T,Press D

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:Health utility indices (HUIs) are widely used in economic evaluation. The best-worst scaling (BWS) method is being used to value dimensions of HUIs. However, little is known about the properties of this method. This paper investigates the validity of the BWS method to develop HUI, comparing it to another ordinal valua...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Krucien N,Watson V,Ryan M

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of modelling in economic evaluation is explored by discussing, with examples, the uses of models. The expanded use of pragmatic clinical trials as an alternative to models is discussed. Some suggestions for good modelling practice are made. ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Buxton MJ,Drummond MF,Van Hout BA,Prince RL,Sheldon TA,Szucs T,Vray M

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper uses a full-information maximum likelihood estimation procedure, the Discrete Factor Method, to estimate the relationship between birthweight and prenatal care. This technique controls for the potential biases surrounding both the sample selection of the pregnancy-resolution decision and the endogeneity of ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Rous JJ,Jewell RT,Brown RW

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence suggests that maternal and offspring smoking behaviour is correlated. Little is known about the mechanisms through which this intergenerational transfer occurs. This paper explores the role of time preferences. Although time preference is likely to be heritable and correlated with health investments, its role...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Brown H,van der Pol M

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent work, the concentration index has been widely used as a measure of income-related health inequality. The purpose of this note is to illustrate two different methods for decomposing the overall health concentration index using data collected from a Short Form (SF-36) survey of the general Australian populatio...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Clarke PM,Gerdtham UG,Connelly LB

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-compliance with medication therapy remains an unsolved and expensive problem for healthcare systems around the world, yet we know little about the factors that affect a patient's decision to follow treatment recommendations. In particular, there is little evidence on the extent to which doctors can influence patie...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Koulayev S,Simeonova E,Skipper N

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：: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：:The EQ-5D general population valuation set (or 'tariff') is increasingly being used in the evaluation of health care interventions and has been recommended by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) for use in cost-utility analyses of health technologies. To be of use to decision-makers, the health gain ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Roberts J,Dolan P

更新日期：2004-07-01 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 study exploits a natural experiment in the province of Ontario, Canada, to identify the impact of pay-for-performance (P4P) incentives on the provision of targeted primary care services and whether physicians' responses differ by age, size of patient population, and baseline compliance level. We use administrativ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Li J,Hurley J,DeCicca P,Buckley G

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：: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：: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：:In Norway specialized health services are provided both by public hospitals and by privately practicing specialists who have a contract with the public sector. A patient's co-payment is the same irrespective of the type of provider he visits. The ambition of equity in the allocation of medical care is high among all p...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Iversen T,Kopperud GS

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decisions about the adoption of medical interventions are informed by evidence on their costs and effects. For a range of reasons, evidence relating to medical devices may be limited. The decision to adopt a device early in its life cycle when the evidence base is least mature may impact on the prospects of acquiring ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Rothery C,Claxton K,Palmer S,Epstein D,Tarricone R,Sculpher M

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00