Cost-minimisation analysis versus cost-effectiveness analysis, revisited.

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 objective of this paper is to determine the price sensitivity of smokers in their consumption of cigarettes, using evidence from a major increase in California cigarette prices due to Proposition 10 and the Tobacco Settlement. The study sample consists of individual survey data from Behavioral Risk Factor Survey (...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Sheu ML,Hu TW,Keeler TE,Ong M,Sung HY

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:China's recent and ambitious health care reform involves a shift from the reliance on markets to the reaffirmation of the central role of the state in the financing and provision of services. In collaboration with the Government of the Ningxia province, we examined the impact of two key features of the reform on healt...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Powell-Jackson T,Yip WC,Han W

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：:Levels of alcohol consumption tend to be similar for individuals living in the same household. This may be because: (a) individuals with similar characteristics collect in households (correlated effects); (b) individuals in the same household are influenced by common factors (exogenous effects); and/or (c) the consump...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Rice N,Sutton M

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the 10% to 15% of American married couples who experience reproductive problems, in vitro fertilization (IVF) is the leading technologically advanced treatment procedure. However, IVF's expense may prevent many couples from receiving treatment, and those who are treated may take an overly aggressive approach to re...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Hamilton BH,McManus B

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:This paper is the first to investigate both the technical and cost efficiency of more than 1500 German general hospitals. More specifically, it deals with the question how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure, and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs to nor outputs of the productio...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Herr A

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：:This study investigates the extent to which family income is associated with an extensive range of child cognitive and behavioural outcomes in a cohort of almost 19 000 British children born between 2000 and 2001. Merging the economists' and developmental psychologists' approaches, it also attempts to identify the mai...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Violato M,Petrou S,Gray R,Redshaw M

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses some of the economic issues which underpin the rationale for investment in information and communications technologies (ICTs). Information imperfections lead to significant transaction costs (search, negotiating and monitoring) which in turn confer a negative externality on parties involved in exc...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Ferguson B,Keen J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates the welfare benefits of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS), the main public health insurance plan for the rural population in China. The findings show that the value of the NCMS to recipients is slightly lower than the government's costs of implementation, ranging from 0.79 to 0.97 per RMB ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Sun JY

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of a perfect risk adjustment scheme, reimbursing health insurers' costs can reduce risk selection in community-rated health insurance markets. In this paper, we develop a model in which insurers determine the cost efficiency of health care and have incentives for risk selection. We derive the optimal co...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Kifmann M,Lorenz N

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study were to analyse (1) whether informal care, provided by children or grandchildren to their elderly parents, and formal care are substitutes or complements, and (2) whether this relationship differs across Europe. The analyses were based on cross-sectional data from the newly developed SHARE (Surv...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Bolin K,Lindgren B,Lundborg P

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Waiting times are a major policy concern in publicly funded health systems across OECD countries. Economists have argued that, in the presence of excess demand, waiting times act as nonmonetary prices to bring demand for and supply of health care in equilibrium. Using administrative data disaggregated by region and su...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Riganti A,Siciliani L,Fiorio CV

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple parties influence the choice of facility for hospital-based inpatient and outpatient services. The patient is the central figure, but their choice of facility is guided by their physician and influenced by hospital characteristics. This study estimated changes in referral patterns for inpatient admissions and...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Carlin CS,Feldman R,Dowd B

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the main concerns about capitation-based reimbursement systems is that tertiary institutions may be underfunded due to insufficient reimbursements of more complicated cases. We test this hypothesis with a data set from New Zealand that, in 2003, introduced a capitation system where public healthcare provider fu...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Shin S,Schumacher C,Feess E

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The British Columbia Ministry of Health provides enhanced prescription drug insurance coverage to residents aged 65 and older. This exogenous change in the effective price of prescription drugs is used to investigate aspects of the drug use by seniors. Three sets of issues are of interest. First, what is the effect of...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Grootendorst PV

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates the causal effect of Oportunidades, a conditional cash-transfer program in Mexico, on overweight and obesity of adolescents living in poor rural areas. Affecting youth weight was not a goal of this program. However, health economics research suggests that the provision of schooling, health info...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Andalón M

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently acquired ability to identify 97% of CF carriers in an Israeli Ashkenazi population, prompts an evaluation of a nationwide screening programme. In 1993, the programme would first screen and counsel 9,261 parents, then 396 spouses of carrier parents and finally screen 16.5 fetuses where both parents are car...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Ginsberg G,Blau H,Kerem E,Springer C,Kerem BS,Akstein E,Greenberg A,Kolumbos A,Abeliovich D,Gazit E

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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