Priority setting in health care: disentangling risk aversion from inequality aversion.

abstract：:Contingent valuation (CV) has been criticised for being too hypothetical, with expressed values bearing little relation to actual values. The magnitude of this divergence, however, depends upon how realistic and believable the contingent market is. This paper presents an overview of five key aspects in the constructio...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Smith RD

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1988, the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) has been 21 years for all 50 US states. The increasing prevalence of teenagers driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol and the resulting traffic accidents were two main reasons for raising the MLDA to 21 years. Following the passage of this legislation, several pu...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： French MT,Maclean JC

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：:Health production models include participation in physical activity as an input. We investigate the relationship between participation in physical activity and health using a bivariate probit model. Participation is identified with an exclusion restriction on a variable reflecting sense of belonging to the community. ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Humphreys BR,McLeod L,Ruseski JE

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore the determinants of dental ill-health as measured by the occurrence of caries. A recursive bivariate probit model that was derived from health production and demand theory is employed to model caries, while taking account of dental care use. The data are from a follow-up questionnaire used in a longitudinal...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Nguyen L,Häkkinen U,Knuuttila M,Järvelin MR

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, the US health care industry has experienced a rapid growth of managed care, formation of networks, and an integration of hospitals. This paper provides new insights about the quality consequences of this dynamic in US hospital markets. I empirically investigate the impact of managed care and hospital ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Sari N

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-employed are often reported to be healthier than wageworkers; however, the cause of this health difference is largely unknown. The longitudinal nature of the US Health and Retirement Study allows us to gauge the plausibility of two competing explanations for this difference: a contextual effect of self-employ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Rietveld CA,van Kippersluis H,Thurik AR

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Though risk adjustment is necessary in order to make equitable comparisons of resource utilization in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction patients, there is little in the literature that can be practically applied without access to clinical records or specialized registries. The aim of this study is to show t...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Evans E,Imanaka Y,Sekimoto M,Ishizaki T,Hayashida K,Fukuda H,Oh EH

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：: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：:Recent years have seen considerable interest in examining the impact of food prices on food consumption and subsequent health consequences. Fiscal policies targeting the relative price of unhealthy foods are frequently put forward as ways to address the obesity epidemic. Conversely, various food subsidy interventions ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Cornelsen L,Green R,Turner R,Dangour AD,Shankar B,Mazzocchi M,Smith RD

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistical analysis of cost data is often difficult because of highly skewed data resulting from a few patients who incur high costs relative to the majority of patients. When the objective is to predict the cost for an individual patient, the literature suggests that one should choose a regression model based on the...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Andersen CK,Andersen K,Kragh-Sørensen P

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health is well known to show a clear gradient by occupation. Although it may appear evident that occupation can affect health, there are multiple possible sources of selection that can generate a strong association, other than simply a causal effect of occupation on health. We link job characteristics to German panel ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Ravesteijn B,Kippersluis HV,Doorslaer EV

更新日期：2018-02-01 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：:This is a first effort to quantify the contribution of different factors in explaining racial difference in low birthweight rate (LBW). Mother's health, child characteristics, prenatal care, socioeconomic status (SES), and the socioeconomic and healthcare environment of mother's community are important inputs into the...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Lhila A,Long S

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the "basic" approach, medical expenses are catastrophic if they exceed a prespecified percentage of consumption or income; the approach tells us if expenses cause a large percentage reduction in living standards. The ability-to-pay (ATP) approach defines expenses as catastrophic if they exceed a prespecified percen...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Wagstaff A

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：:The rising rate of obesity has reached epidemic proportions and is now one of the most serious public health challenges facing the US. However, the underlying causes for this increase are unclear. This paper examines the effect of family income changes on body mass index (BMI) and obesity using data from the National ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Schmeiser MD

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：:Cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) of behavioral interventions typically use physical outcome criteria. However, any progress in cognitive antecedents of behavior change may be seen as a beneficial outcome of an intervention. The aim of this study is to explore the feasibility and validity of incorporating cognitive p...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Prenger R,Pieterse ME,Braakman-Jansen LM,Feenstra TL,Smit ES,Hoving C,de Vries H,van Ommeren JK,Evers SM,van der Palen J

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:The impact of market concentration has been little studied in markets for ambulatory care in the developing world, where the retail sector often accounts for a high proportion of treatments. This study begins to address this gap through an analysis of the consumer market for malaria treatment in rural areas of three d...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Goodman C,Kachur SP,Abdulla S,Bloland P,Mills A

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the results from two surveys designed to explore whether an application of Harsanyi's principle of choice form behind a veil of ignorance (VEI) can be used in order to measure the health of populations. This approach was tentatively recommended by Murray et al. (Bull. World Health Organ 2000; 78: 981-994; Su...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Pinto-Prades JL,Abellán-Perpiñán JM

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：: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：:We study the effects of inherited socioeconomic characteristics on markers of unhealthy bodyweight. Taking Australian microdata from 2007 to 2013, we show that approximately 4% of the variation in outcomes is determined by factors beyond an individual's control, such as their race, gender, and social class. Paternal s...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Balasooriya NN,Bandara JS,Rohde N

更新日期：2021-01-13 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：: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：: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