Effects of NCMS on access to care and financial protection in China.

abstract：:Much of the debate surrounding reform of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) revolves around its insurance market regulation. This paper studies the impact on health insurance coverage of those provisions. Using data from the American Community Survey, years 2008-2015, I focus on individuals, ages 26 ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Wettstein G

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has found that high school physical education (PE) requirements are largely ineffective at reducing youth body weight. However, these studies were forced to rely on cross-state variation in PE requirements to identify their impacts, raising concerns that estimated policy effects may be confounded by ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Sabia JJ,Nguyen TT,Rosenberg O

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate future projections of population health are imperative to plan for the future healthcare needs of a rapidly aging population. Multistate-transition microsimulation models, such as the U.S. Future Elderly Model, address this need but require high-quality panel data for calibration. We develop an alternative me...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Kasajima M,Hashimoto H,Suen SC,Chen B,Jalal H,Eggleston K,Bhattacharya J

更新日期：2020-07-14 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 explores and critically discusses some of the methodological limitations of using the number-needed-to-treat (NNT) in economic evaluation. We argue that NNT may be a straightforward measure of benefit when the effect of an intervention is immediate, but that serious problems arise when the effect is delay r...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Kristiansen IS,Gyrd-Hansen D

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:This paper focuses on the contrast between describing the benefit of a healthcare intervention as gain in health (QALY-type ideas) or a disability reduction (DALY-type ideas). The background is an apparent convergence in practice of the work conducted under both traditions. In the light of these methodological develop...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Airoldi M,Morton A

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the effect of competition on the behaviour of Australian general practitioners. The paper represents a considerable improvement on the methods of previous studies by using a random effects probit model in a multilevel modelling framework to obtain a more robust estimate of the effect of GP density,...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Scott A,Shiell A

更新日期：1997-11-01 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：:A source of controversy in the economic literature concerns whether to include or exclude future medical care costs when computing attributable costs for lifesaving interventions. Although it is hypothesized that including future medical care costs will offset the cost savings achieved through prevention, the magnitud...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Etzioni R,Ramsey SD,Berry K,Brown M

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Panel datasets provide a rich source of information for health economists, offering the scope to control for individual heterogeneity and to model the dynamics of individual behaviour. However the qualitative or categorical measures of outcome often used in health economics create special problems for estimating econo...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Contoyannis P,Jones AM,Leon-Gonzalez R

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluate the causal impact of an improvement in insurance coverage on patients' decisions to consult physicians who charge more than the regulated fee. We use a French panel data set of 43,111 individuals observed from 2010 to 2012. At the beginning of the period, none of them were covered for balance billing; by t...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Dormont B,Péron M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decisions about the adoption of medical interventions are informed by evidence on their costs and effects. For a range of reasons, evidence relating to medical devices may be limited. The decision to adopt a device early in its life cycle when the evidence base is least mature may impact on the prospects of acquiring ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Rothery C,Claxton K,Palmer S,Epstein D,Tarricone R,Sculpher M

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：: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：: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：:African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, is a tropical disease caused by trypanosome parasites transmitted by tsetse flies. The focus of this paper is on the cost-effectiveness of alternative drug treatments for patients in the late stage of the disease. Melarsoprol has been used for many decades. More recently,...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Politi C,Carrín G,Evans D,Kuzoe FA,Cattand PD

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we analyse the distribution of family physician use in Canada to explore whether the stated goal of reasonable access to care has been achieved. We test hypotheses to see whether (a) variations in incidence and quantity of use are independent of need for care as proxied by self-assessed health status and...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Birch S,Eyles J,Newbold KB

更新日期：1993-07-01 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：:This empirical study presents estimates of the impact of unemployment on psychological health using U.K. household panel data. The causal impact of unemployment is established using instrumental variable methods. Psychological health is measured using both the General Household Questionnaire measure and also self-repo...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Gathergood J

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we examine the 'catch-up' hypothesis, that is, whether or not per capita health expenditures of the UK, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, and Spain converge to the per capita health expenditures of the USA over the period 1960-2000. We propose a framework to examine convergence of health expenditures and use ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Narayan PK

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each year, the UK records 25,000 or more excess winter deaths, primarily among the elderly. A key policy response is the "Winter Fuel Payment" (WFP), a labelled but unconditional cash transfer to households with a member above the female state pension age. The WFP has been shown to raise fuel spending among eligible h...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Crossley TF,Zilio F

更新日期：2018-05-09 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：:This paper estimates the monetary value of providing informal care by means of a well-being valuation method. This is done by assessing the compensating variation necessary to maintain the same level of well-being after an informal caregiver provides an extra hour of informal care. The informal caregiver's well-being ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： van den Berg B,Ferrer-I-Carbonell A

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：: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：:Discrete-time Markov chains have been successfully used to investigate treatment programs and health care protocols for chronic diseases. In these situations, the transition matrix, which describes the natural progression of the disease, is often estimated from a cohort observed at common intervals. Estimation of the ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Craig BA,Sendi PP

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The widely-accepted hypothesis of a development sequence from colorectal adenoma to carcinoma is felt by clinicians to legitimate adenoma excision during routine colonoscopic investigation. Using published data on adenoma development, and adenoma prevalence data derived from the Nottingham colorectal cancer screening ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Whynes DK,Walker AR,Hardcastle JD

更新日期：1992-04-01 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