The effect of national health insurance on mortality and the SES-health gradient: evidence from the elderly in Taiwan.

abstract：:Staffing is the dominant input in the production of nursing home services. Because of concerns about understaffing in many US nursing homes, a number of states have adopted minimum staffing standards. Focusing on policy changes in California and Ohio, this paper examined the effects of minimum nursing hours per reside...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Chen MM,Grabowski DC

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper combined data collected from war time government records with survey data including background characteristics, such as factors that affected eligibility, to examine the adult depression outcomes of individuals who were evacuated from Finland to temporary foster care in Sweden during World War II. Using war...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Santavirta N,Santavirta T

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：:When drafting protocols for the use of economic evaluation alongside clinical trials, it is common to have to specify which type of economic evaluation is going to be carried out. Will it be a cost-benefit analysis (CBA), cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) or a cost-utility analysis (CUA)? It is our contention that pri...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Donaldson C,Hundley V,McIntosh E

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of administrative decentralisation on equity in health and health care is an important unresolved issue in the health policy debate. Predictions from the limited theoretical literature and the relevant empirical research are both insufficient to draw any firm conclusions. Many countries are nevertheless exp...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Jiménez-Rubio D,Smith PC,Van Doorslaer E

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:Appreciating how the propensity to be immunized against the flu depends on individual characteristics and environments is essential for policies regarding influenza control to be formulated sensibly. To this point, the literature has offered little documentation on the determinants of influenza immunization. Beyond ep...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Mullahy J

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been recent controversy about whether aid directed specifically to health has caused recipient governments to reallocate their own funds to non-health areas. At the same time, general budget support (GBS) has been increasing. GBS allows governments to set their own priorities, but little is known about how t...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Fernandes Antunes A,Xu K,James CD,Saksena P,Van de Maele N,Carrin G,Evans DB

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：: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：: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 this paper we examine the goals and effects of health-care policy in the Netherlands over the period 1980--2000. During this period Dutch health-care policy is marked by a peculiar combination of increasingly stringent cost-containment policies alongside a persistent pursuit of market-oriented reforms. The main goa...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Schut FT,Van de Ven WP

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：:This study exploits a natural experiment in the province of Ontario, Canada, to identify the impact of pay-for-performance (P4P) incentives on the provision of targeted primary care services and whether physicians' responses differ by age, size of patient population, and baseline compliance level. We use administrativ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Li J,Hurley J,DeCicca P,Buckley G

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：: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：: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：:In this paper, we investigate to what extent alcohol-dependent individuals fare worse in the Finnish labour market, using data from a large Finnish health survey. We used the DSM-IV criteria for alcohol dependence assessed by a composite international diagnostic interview (CIDI). We find that there are substantial dis...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Johansson E,Alho H,Kiiskinen U,Poikolainen K

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When health insurance reforms involve non-linear price schedules tied to payment periods (for example, fees levied by quarter or year), the empirical analysis of its effects has to take the within-period time structure of incentives into account. The analysis is further complicated when demand data are obtained from a...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Farbmacher H,Winter J

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of modelling in economic evaluation is explored by discussing, with examples, the uses of models. The expanded use of pragmatic clinical trials as an alternative to models is discussed. Some suggestions for good modelling practice are made. ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Buxton MJ,Drummond MF,Van Hout BA,Prince RL,Sheldon TA,Szucs T,Vray M

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the impact of language deficiency on the health status of childhood migrants to Australia. Our identification strategy relies on a quasi-experiment comparing immigrants arriving at different ages and from different linguistic origins. In the presence of considerable non-classical measurement error in self-rep...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Clarke A,Isphording IE

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicide rates for adolescents have doubled since 1970 and tripled since 1960, even as rates for other age groups have declined. Using a Becker-type model of household production and consumption, we demonstrate conditions under which utility maximizing parents allocate time away from time-intensive commodities like chi...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Mathur VK,Freeman DG

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The excess female infant mortality observed in South Asia has typically been attributed to gender discrimination in the intra-household allocation of food and medical care. However, studies on child nutrition find no evidence of gender differences. A natural explanation could be that in environments of high infant mor...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Dancer D,Rammohan A,Smith MD

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：: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：:Since the ratification of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2004, Pakistan has made modest but continued progress in implementing various tobacco control measures. By 2014, substantial progress was achieved in areas of monitoring, mass media antitobacco campaigns, and advertising...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Datta BK,Husain MJ,Fazlul I

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using 11 years of county-level panel data, fixed effect models are estimated to evaluate the impact of the Safe Motherhood (SM) Program in China. Propensity score matching is used to select comparable factual and counterfactual counties. Out of 2013 counties in China, 283 are selected for the treatment group and 1051 ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Feng XL,Shi G,Wang Y,Xu L,Luo H,Shen J,Yin H,Guo Y

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:Using data from Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we investigate the determinants of voluntary private health insurance (VPHI) among the over 50s in 11 European countries and their effects on healthcare spending. First, we find that the main determinants of VPHI are different in each country, ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Paccagnella O,Rebba V,Weber G

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper estimates treatment effects of managed care plans on the utilization of health care services using data from two contemporaneous, nationally representative household surveys from the USA. The paper exploits recent advances in simulation-based econometrics to take the endogeneity of enrollment into managed c...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Deb P,Li C,Trivedi PK,Zimmer DM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00