Evaluation of the impact of the Mother and Infant Health Project in Ukraine.

abstract：:This study examines whether taxes on unhealthy food are suitable for internalizing intergenerational externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. In an overlapping generations (OLG) model with an imperfectly altruistic parent, the optimal steady-state tax rate on unhealthy food is stri...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Kalamov Z,Runkel M

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Debate about the monetary value of a quality-adjusted life year (QALY) has existed in the health economics literature for some time. More recently, concern about such a value has arisen in UK health policy. This paper reports on an attempt to 'model' a willingness-to-pay-based value of a QALY from the existing value o...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Mason H,Jones-Lee M,Donaldson C

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Korea's rapid population aging has been considered as a major factor in increase of healthcare expenditure (HCE). However, there were no clear empirical evidences in Korea that show if population aging has a significant impact on HCE. To examine the 'red herring' argument, this study used Heckman, two-part, and augmen...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Hyun KR,Kang S,Lee S

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a statistical model and a partial equilibrium economic search model, we develop a methodology for appraising the value of consumer information about the quality of health care providers and apply it to information about physicians' predispositions to perform cesarean section deliveries. There are three primary r...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Grant D

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This empirical study presents estimates of the impact of unemployment on psychological health using U.K. household panel data. The causal impact of unemployment is established using instrumental variable methods. Psychological health is measured using both the General Household Questionnaire measure and also self-repo...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Gathergood J

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：: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：:Nonlinear price schedules generally have heterogeneous effects on health-care demand. We develop and apply a finite mixture bivariate probit model to analyze whether there are heterogeneous reactions to the introduction of a nonlinear price schedule in the German statutory health insurance system. In administrative in...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Farbmacher H,Ihle P,Schubert I,Winter J,Wuppermann A

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the latest government effort to reform China's health care system, Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance (URBMI) was piloted in seventy-nine cities during the summer of 2007, following State Council Policy Document 2007 No. 20's guidelines. This study presents the first economic analysis of URBMI, following a nati...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Lin W,Liu GG,Chen G

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：OBJECTIVE:This study explores the relationship between the employment status of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive individuals and socioeconomic and health characteristics in Spain. METHODS:Data were obtained from four waves of the HIV/AIDS Hospital Survey from the period 2001 to 2004. The sample was composed...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Oliva J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:There are many interventions for HIV/AIDS that require that people know their status and hence require a HIV test. Testing that is driven by a desire to prevent the spread of the disease often has an indirect effect on others. These external effects need to be identified, quantified and included as part of th...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Brent RJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Earned Income Tax Credit is the largest antipoverty program in the USA. In 1993, the Earned Income Tax Credit benefit levels were changed significantly based on the number of children in the family such that families with two or more children experienced an exogenous expansion in their incomes. Using data from the...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Averett S,Wang Y

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health economic decision models are based on specific assumptions relating to model structure and parameter estimation. Validation of these models is recommended as an indicator of reliability, but is not commonly reported. Furthermore, models derived from different data and employing different assumptions may produce...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Kim LG,Thompson SG

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much recent research interest has focused on handling uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis and in particular the calculation of confidence intervals for incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs). Problems of interpretation when ICERs are negative have led to two important and related developments: the use of...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Sendi PP,Briggs AH

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each of Canada's ten provinces has a publicly administered system of health insurance, funded by provincial and federal taxes, that is accessible to all citizens and covers all medically necessary services provided by physicians and hospitals. Canadians spend an estimated 9.2 percent of their gross national product on...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Adams O

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High costs and deficits in the care of patients with chronic diseases have triggered numerous programs to improve the quality and efficiency of treatment of chronic diseases. Decision makers need to estimate the impact of a disease management program (DMP) on long-term costs and cost-effectiveness in order to decide w...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Gandjour A

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few countries are immune to the international health care 'virus' of reform, with many countries regularly re-cycling changes that shift costs and benefits in ways that are arbitrary, inefficient and offer short term political palliation. Much of this activity has little evidence base and reveals lack of clarity in de...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Maynard A

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：:We aim to establish whether it is ever appropriate to conduct cost-minimisation analysis (CMA) rather than cost-effectiveness analysis.We perform a literature review to examine how the use of CMA has changed since Briggs & O'Brien announced its death in 2001. Examples of simulated and trial data are presented: firstly...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Dakin H,Wordsworth S

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：:In this study, the convergent validity of the contingent valuation method (CVM) and travel cost method (TCM) is tested by comparing estimates of the willingness to pay (WTP) for improving access to mammographic screening in rural areas of Australia. It is based on a telephone survey of 458 women in 19 towns, in which ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Clarke PM

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In economic evaluations of health technologies, health outcomes are commonly measured in terms of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). QALYs are the product of time and health-related quality of life. Health-related quality of life, in turn, is determined by a social tariff, which is supposed to reflect the public's p...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Schneider PP

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：: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

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：:Since 2017, many US cities have implemented taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages to decrease consumption of sugary beverages and raise revenue. We analyze household receipt data to examine the impact of taxes on households' beverage purchases in the four largest US cities with such taxes: Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Cawley J,Frisvold D,Jones D

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies indicate that minority populations in the US - including African Americans, Native Americans and Mexican Americans - are particularly at risk for diabetes and that their complications are more frequent and severe. Using microdata from a 1994-1999 population based study of middle aged and older ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Bastida E,Pagán JA

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper focuses on the effects of a 2005 health insurance reform in Vietnam. Through this reform, public health insurance was newly offered to nonpoor children under 6 years old, but it required the use of community health facilities. This requirement potentially limited the value of the insurance. Employing differ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Nguyen MT

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00