Cost-effectiveness acceptability curves--caveats quantified.

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：: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：: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：:Each year, the UK records 25,000 or more excess winter deaths, primarily among the elderly. A key policy response is the "Winter Fuel Payment" (WFP), a labelled but unconditional cash transfer to households with a member above the female state pension age. The WFP has been shown to raise fuel spending among eligible h...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Crossley TF,Zilio F

更新日期：2018-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The sector wide approach (SWAp) emerged during the 1990s as a mechanism for managing aid from the multiplicity of development partners that operate in the recipient country's health, education or agricultural sectors. Health SWAps aim to give increased control to recipient governments, allowing greater domestic influe...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Sweeney R,Mortimer D

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) enables female sex workers (FSWs) to protect themselves from HIV without relying on clients using condoms. Yet, because PrEP reduces HIV risk, financial incentives to not use condoms may lead to risk compensation: reductions in condom use an...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Quaife M,Terris-Prestholt F,Mukandavire Z,Vickerman P

更新日期：2020-12-29 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 presents a new scoring algorithm for the SF-6D, one of the most popular preference-based health status measures. Previous SF-6D value sets have a minimum (a floor), which is substantially higher than the lowest value generated by the EQ-5D model. Our algorithm expands the range of SF-6D utility scores in su...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Abellán Perpiñán JM,Sánchez Martínez FI,Martínez Pérez JE,Méndez I

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:The use of long-term care (LTC) is changing rapidly. In the Netherlands, rates of institutional LTC use are falling, whereas homecare use is growing. Are these changes attributable to declining disability rates, or has LTC use given disability changed? And have institutionalization rates fallen regardless of disabilit...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： de Meijer C,Bakx P,van Doorslaer E,Koopmanschap M

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In health economics, the use of patient recall of health care utilisation information is common, including in national health surveys. However, the types and magnitude of measurement error that relate to different recall periods are not well understood. This study assessed the accuracy of recalled doctor visits over 2...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Dalziel K,Li J,Scott A,Clarke P

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Journal of Health Economics and Health Economics are arguably the top two journals in the field of health economics. Together, they published 1,679 empirical research articles in the past decade (2010-2019). In line with analyses based on earlier periods, the empirical evidence in top health economics journals con...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Hirvonen K

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate future projections of population health are imperative to plan for the future healthcare needs of a rapidly aging population. Multistate-transition microsimulation models, such as the U.S. Future Elderly Model, address this need but require high-quality panel data for calibration. We develop an alternative me...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Kasajima M,Hashimoto H,Suen SC,Chen B,Jalal H,Eggleston K,Bhattacharya J

更新日期：2020-07-14 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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：:The National Health Service (NHS) in England distributes substantial funds to health-care providers in different geographical areas to pay for the health care required by the populations they serve. The formulae that determine this distribution reflect populations' health needs and local differences in the prices of i...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Elliott R,Ma A,Sutton M,Skatun D,Rice N,Morris S,McConnachie A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an increasing use of the discrete choice experiment (DCE) method in health care to estimate preferences of individuals and the public for different services. Despite this increasing use, there are few studies that investigate the validity of the DCE in health. This study investigates the external validity of ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Krucien N,Gafni A,Pelletier-Fleury N

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many OECD countries have replaced per-diem hospital reimbursement with lump sum payments by diagnosis-related groups. This study analyzes hospital responses to a large-scale refinement of reimbursement practices in Germany on January 1, 2006, in which regulating authorities introduce reimbursements by treatment intens...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Bäuml M,Kümpel C

更新日期：2020-12-23 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：:There is little evidence about the responsiveness of doctors' labour supply to changes in pay. Given substantial increases in NHS expenditure, new national contracts for hospital doctors and general practitioners that involve increases in pay, and the gradual imposition of a ceiling on hours worked through the Europea...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Ikenwilo D,Scott A

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：: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：:Using the difference-in-difference-in-differences method, we examine the effect of the National Health Insurance (NHI) on mortality, self-assessed health, and functional limitations of the elderly and seek to determine whether the effect is spread equally across health classes. We find that the NHI only has an effect ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Keng SH,Sheu SJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：:This paper critically reviews theoretical and empirical propositions regarding visual analogue scale (VAS) valuations of health states and their use in cost-utility analysis (CUA). A widely repeated assertion in the economic evaluation literature is the inferiority, on theoretical grounds, of VAS valuations. Five comm...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Parkin D,Devlin N

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00