Payment mechanisms and the composition of physician practices: balancing cost-containment, access, and quality of care.

abstract：:Systematic violations of expected utility theory (EU) have been reported in the context of both money and health outcomes. Rank-dependent utility theory (RDU) is currently the most popular and influential alternative theory of choice under circumstances of risk. This paper reports a test of the descriptive performance...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Oliver A

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health utility indices (HUIs) are widely used in economic evaluation. The best-worst scaling (BWS) method is being used to value dimensions of HUIs. However, little is known about the properties of this method. This paper investigates the validity of the BWS method to develop HUI, comparing it to another ordinal valua...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Krucien N,Watson V,Ryan M

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：:In Norway specialized health services are provided both by public hospitals and by privately practicing specialists who have a contract with the public sector. A patient's co-payment is the same irrespective of the type of provider he visits. The ambition of equity in the allocation of medical care is high among all p...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Iversen T,Kopperud GS

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:Mixed payment systems have become a prominent alternative to paying physicians through fee-for-service and capitation. While theory shows mixed payment systems to be superior, causal effects on physicians' behavior when introducing mixed systems are not well understood empirically. We systematically analyze the influe...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Brosig-Koch J,Hennig-Schmidt H,Kairies-Schwarz N,Wiesen D

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：OBJECTIVE:This study explores the relationship between the employment status of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive individuals and socioeconomic and health characteristics in Spain. METHODS:Data were obtained from four waves of the HIV/AIDS Hospital Survey from the period 2001 to 2004. The sample was composed...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Oliva J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the impact of tobacco prices on decisions to initiate and quit smoking have, to date, largely been restricted to developed countries. Such analyses, when set in developing countries, are complicated by the availability of a wide range of tobacco products that are nicotine substitutes for cigarettes. This st...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Laxminarayan R,Deolalikar A

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each year about 20% of the 10 million hospital inpatients in Italy get admitted to hospitals outside the Local Health Authority of residence. In this paper we carefully explore this phenomenon and estimate gravity equations for 'trade' in hospital care using a Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood method. Consistency of t...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Fabbri D,Robone S

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The US federal government has recently made a substantial investment to enhance the US health information technology (IT) infrastructure. Previous literature on the impact of IT on firm performance across multiple industries has emphasized the importance of a process of co-invention whereby organizations develop compl...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Lammers E

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：:According to the justification hypothesis, non-employed individuals may over-report their level of work limitation, leading to biased census/survey estimates of the prevalence of severe disabilities and the associated labor force participation rate. For researchers studying policies which impact the disabled or elderl...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Webber DA,Bjelland MJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the relationship between changes in income inequality and the provision of resources in a health care system (the public-private mix). Specifically, we investigate whether increases in income inequality, as separate from overall income levels and growth, have changed the availability of both privat...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Isabelle M,Stabile M

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perception of health risks and risky health behaviors are closely associated. In this paper, we investigate the accuracy of health risk perceptions among obese individuals, aged 50-62 years. We compare subjective risk perceptions for various diseases elicited in the American Life Panel to individual's objective ri...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Winter J,Wuppermann A

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper applies the inverse probability weighted (IPW) least-squares method to estimate the effects of treatment on total medical cost, subject to censoring, in a panel-data setting. IPW pooled ordinary-least squares (POLS) and IPW random effects (RE) models are used. Because total medical cost might not be indepen...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Başer O,Gardiner JC,Bradley CJ,Yüce H,Given C

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Health Service (NHS) in England distributes substantial funds to health-care providers in different geographical areas to pay for the health care required by the populations they serve. The formulae that determine this distribution reflect populations' health needs and local differences in the prices of i...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Elliott R,Ma A,Sutton M,Skatun D,Rice N,Morris S,McConnachie A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines whether taxes on unhealthy food are suitable for internalizing intergenerational externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. In an overlapping generations (OLG) model with an imperfectly altruistic parent, the optimal steady-state tax rate on unhealthy food is stri...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Kalamov Z,Runkel M

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The causal association between absolute income and health is well-established; however, the relationship between income inequality and health is not. The conclusions from the received studies vary across the region or country studied and/or the methodology employed. Using the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in A...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Bechtel L,Lordan G,Rao DS

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the contingent valuation method for measurement of monetary values of various commodities. However, the validity and reliability of the method need to be examined thoroughly. This paper reports results of a test of scope and question order effects in a contingent v...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Kartman B,Stålhammar NO,Johannesson M

更新日期：1996-11-01 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：:A variety of contract types are used in the placement of elderly people in residential and nursing care homes in the UK. Contracts vary according to how and when providers are paid. Among other things, prices can be made contingent on the total quantity of service to be purchased and on production cost characteristics...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Forder J,Netten A

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, I use nationally representative longitudinal data to examine adolescent depression and educational attainment. First, I examine the individual, family, and community-level determinants of adolescent depression, diagnosis, and treatment. I find that male and minority adolescents who score high on depress...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Fletcher JM

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：:This paper estimates the causal effect of perceived job insecurity - that is, the fear of involuntary job loss - on health in a sample of men from 22 European countries. We rely on an original instrumental variable approach on the basis of the idea that workers perceive greater job security in countries where employme...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Caroli E,Godard M

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both Medicare and Medicaid are reducing payments to hospitals, and there is widespread concern that hospitals may respond by increasing prices to privately insured patients. Theoretical models of hospital behaviour have ambiguous predictions as to whether, and under what circumstances, hospitals will shift costs to pr...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Zwanziger J,Melnick GA,Bamezai A

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:Economic theory suggests that income growth could lead to changes in consumption quantity and quality as the spending on a commodity changes. Similarly, the volume and quality of healthcare consumption could rise with incomes because of demographic changes, usage of innovative medical technologies, and other factors. ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Chen W,Okunade A,Lubiani GG

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：: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