Benefit-incidence analysis: are government health expenditures more pro-rich than we think?

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：: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：: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：:It is common to find specially constructed condition-specific health state descriptions used as the basis for benefit assessment in cost-utility analysis. For this approach to be valid it is necessary to have valid descriptors of health states. Yet the evidence demonstrating descriptive validity has been neglected in ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Gerard K,Johnston K,Brown J

更新日期：1999-12-01 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：:Using the latest published data from Tobacco Advisory Council surveys, this paper re-evaluates the question of whether or not increases in cigarette taxation are regressive in the United Kingdom. The extended data set shows no evidence of increasing price-elasticity by social class as found in a major previous study. ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Borren P,Sutton M

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widespread use of antibiotics is considered the major driving force behind the development of antibiotic resistance. The benefits of exceeding the welfare-maximizing level of antibiotic use are below the costs of resistance created by this excess quantity of antibiotics used, thereby resulting in a welfare deadweight ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Elbasha EH

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and health is well documented for developed countries, less evidence has been presented for developing countries. The aim of this paper is to analyse this relationship at the household level for Fiji, a developing country in the South Pacific, using original...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Lordan G,Soto EJ,Brown RP,Correa-Valez I

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates whether leaving school in a bad economy deteriorates health in the long run. It focuses on low-educated individuals in England and Wales who entered the labour market immediately after the 1973 oil crisis. Our identification strategy relies on the comparison of individuals who left school at th...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Garrouste C,Godard M

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：:Empirical evidence from US studies suggests that female physicians earn less than their male counterparts, on average. The earnings gap does not disappear when individual and market characteristics are controlled for. This paper investigates whether a gender earnings difference can also be observed in a health-care sy...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Theurl E,Winner H

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has provided millions of Americans with medical insurance but may have led to an increase in retirement among older individuals who are utilizing the newly available coverage options as a substitute for employer-provided insurance. Using data from the American Community Survey from 2009-2...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Wood K

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:Senegal is the only African country where sex work is legal and regulated by a health policy. Senegalese female sex workers (FSWs) are required to register with a health facility and to attend monthly routine health checks aimed at testing and treating sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Compliance to those routin...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Ito S,Lépine A,Treibich C

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：:Appendectomy is a common and relatively simple procedure to remove an inflamed appendix, but the rate of appendectomy varies widely across Europe. This paper investigates factors that explain differences in resource use for appendectomy. We analysed 106,929 appendectomy patients treated in 939 hospitals in 10 European...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Mason A,Or Z,Renaud T,Street A,Thuilliez J,Ward P,EuroDRG group.

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laws mandating that individuals wear a seat belt have the presumed goal of reducing motor vehicle accident fatalities, but the prevailing view is that they may reduce the number of organs available. I provide a conceptual model identifying mechanisms whereby the law could either increase or decrease organ donation. Ex...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Brewer B

更新日期：2020-08-03 00:00:00

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：: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 paper empirically investigates the relationship between the health care expenditure of end-of-life patients and hospital characteristics in Taiwan where (i) hospitals of different ownership differ in their financial incentives; (ii) patients are free to choose their providers; and (iii) health care services are p...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Chang S,He Y,Hsieh CR

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 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：:The derivation of population norms using simple generic health-related quality of life measures to inform policy has been recommended in the literature. This letter illustrates the derivation of population norms for the SF-6D in the United Kingdom. It uses a sample of 22,166 respondents from the 2010 wave of the study...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： van den Berg B

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cost-effectiveness acceptability curves (CEACs) have become widely used in applied health technology assessment and at the same time are criticized as unreliable decision-making tool. In this paper we show how using CEACs differs from maximizing expected net benefit (NB) and when it can lead to inconsistent decisions....

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Jakubczyk M,Kamiński B

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from a household survey were used to analyse the distribution of newborn deliveries in a rural area of Kenya. It was found that 52% of deliveries occurred at home or with traditional birth attendants. Using regression techniques, the most significant predictors of choosing an informal delivery setting are the hou...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Hodgkin D

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper discusses the impact of centre selection on the generalisability of randomised controlled trial (RCT)-based economic evaluations and suggests a future research agenda. The first section briefly reviews the current methods for addressing generalisability. We argue that these methods make no verifiable assumpt...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Gheorghe A,Roberts T,Pinkney TD,Morton DG,Calvert M

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Finland, municipal health care expenditure varies from FIM 3 800 per capita to FIM 7 800 per capita. The objective of this study was to estimate the impact of different economic, structural and demographic factors on the per capita costs of health services and care of the elderly. Using regression analysis we attem...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Häkkinen U,Luoma K

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical estimates of price elasticities of demand (PED) for pharmaceuticals suggest that they are relatively price inelastic. However, in many settings, a medication and its substitutes and complements face simultaneous differential changes in prices that affect the observed "composite" PED. We exploit an implementa...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Yeung K,Basu A,Hansen RN,Sullivan SD

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：:In 2011, the USA had the second highest teen birth rate of any developed nation, according to the World Bank, . In an effort to lower teen pregnancy rates, several states have enacted policies requiring abstinence-based sex education. In this study, we utilize a difference-in-differences research design to analyze the...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Carr JB,Packham A

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00