The geography of hospital admission in a national health service with patient choice.

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：:This paper directly compares the relative sensitivity of time-trade-off (TTO) and willingness-to-pay (WTP) values obtained for various levels of change in health status. This was achieved by administering a TTO and WTP survey to a population of 50 subjects, assessing their valuation of various degrees of change in hea...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Smith RD

更新日期：2001-09-01 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：: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：:The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has recently changed its guidelines on discounting costs and effects in economic evaluations. In common with most other regulatory bodies it now requires that health effects should be discounted at the same rate as costs. We show that the guideline leads to sub-optimal de...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Gravelle H,Brouwer W,Niessen L,Postma M,Rutten F

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Outpatient visit co-payments have increased in recent years. We estimate the patient response to a price change for specialty care, based on a co-payment increase from $15 to $50 per visit for veterans with hypertension. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS:A retrospective cohort of veterans required to pay co-pay...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Maciejewski ML,Liu CF,Kavee AL,Olsen MK

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：: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：: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：:This paper estimates the effect of diabetes on labor-force participation, hours worked, days-out-of-work due to illness, and earnings using data from the National Health Interview Survey. Findings indicate that diabetes, estimated wholly, is significantly detrimental to most labor market outcomes. However, separation ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Minor T

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：:Limited health care budgets have emphasized the need for providers to use resources efficiently. Accordingly, there has been a rapid increase in the number of economic evaluations of communicable disease health programmes in developing countries, as there is a need to implement evidence-based policy decisions. However...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Walker D,Fox-Rushby JA

更新日期：2000-12-01 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：: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：:The objective of this paper is to provide two-stage game models explaining the 'Generic Competition Paradox' that demonstrates an increase of brand-name drug price in response to generic entry. Under the assumption that there are two groups of consumers who are segmented by their insurance status, high insurance cover...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Kong Y

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:Congress passed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) in 1986, guaranteeing a standard of medical care to anyone who entered an emergency room. This guarantee made default a more reliable substitute for medical insurance. I construct a tractable structural model of the medical insurance market ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Koch TG

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we used stochastic frontier cost functions to estimate the teaching and research costs of Finnish hospitals. Average and marginal cost estimates were used to evaluate the current reimbursement system as well as to calculate the total expenditure on teaching and research in hospitals. The efficiency adjus...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Linna M,Häkkinen U,Linnakko E

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We take explicit account of the way in which the supply of physicians and patients in the economy affects the design of physician remuneration schemes, highlighting the three-way trade-off between quality of care, access, and cost. Both physicians and patients are heterogeneous. Physicians choose both the number of pa...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Barham V,Milliken O

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:Authors of benefit-incidence analyses (BIA) have to impute subsidies using assumptions about the relationship between unobserved subsidies 'captured' by the household and what can be observed at the household and aggregate levels. This paper shows that one of the two assumptions used in BIA studies to date will necess...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Wagstaff A

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New technologies may displace existing, higher-value care under a fixed budget. Countries aim to curtail adoption of low-value technologies, for example, by installing cost-effectiveness thresholds. Our objective is to estimate the opportunity cost of hospital care to identify a threshold value for the Netherlands. To...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Stadhouders N,Koolman X,van Dijk C,Jeurissen P,Adang E

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：:This paper analyses the evolution of pharmaceutical expenditure with respect to GDP for a group of the most important OECD economies. We find that this relationship is not stable across the sample considered (1960-2003), and heterogeneity is found in the temporal evolution of the variables and across countries. Furthe...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Clemente J,Marcuello C,Montañés A

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:In this paper, we introduce a tractable social welfare function that is rich enough to disentangle attitudes towards risk in health outcomes from attitudes towards health inequalities across individuals. Given this preference specification, we evaluate how the introduction of uncertainty over the severity of illness a...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Echazu L,Nocetti D

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last 20 years, acute-care hospitals in most OECD countries have built up costly overcapacities. From the perspective of economic policy, it is desirable to know how hospitals of different ownership forms respond to changes in demand and are probably best suited to deal with existing overcapacities. This artic...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Schwierz C

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：: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：:The problem of estimating expected outcomes for the economic evaluation of treatments for which the outcome of principal interest is (quality adjusted) survival time has so far not received sufficient attention in the literature. The best estimate of expected survival is mean survival time, but with censored survival ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Neymark N,Adriaenssen I,Gorlia T,Caleo S,Bolla M

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00