Characterising Uncertainty in the Assessment of Medical Devices and Determining Future Research Needs.

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：: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：: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 exploits state health education (HED) reforms as quasi-natural experiments to estimate the causal impact of HED received by children on their parents' physical activity. We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the period 1999-2005 merged with data on state HED reforms from the National Assoc...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Berniell L,de la Mata D,Valdés N

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing interest in the role of social relationships in explaining patterns of health. We contribute to this debate by investigating the impact of social capital on self-reported health for eight countries from the Commonwealth of Independent States. We rely on three indicators of social capital at the indivi...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： d'Hombres B,Rocco L,Suhrcke M,McKee M

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:New technologies may displace existing, higher-value care under a fixed budget. Countries aim to curtail adoption of low-value technologies, for example, by installing cost-effectiveness thresholds. Our objective is to estimate the opportunity cost of hospital care to identify a threshold value for the Netherlands. To...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Stadhouders N,Koolman X,van Dijk C,Jeurissen P,Adang E

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Setting risk-adjusted capitation rates in health systems with centralized financing and decentralized delivery is one of the most intriguing policy issues. The common practice to set capitation group rates is based on individual data collected from either population surveys or medical records, using a single-and in mo...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Shmueli A

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I exploit substantial increases in the earned income tax credit to study how a policy-driven change in family income affects childhood obesity. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, my difference-in-differences estimates indicate that the probability of being obese increased by 3 percentage points amon...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Jo Y

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using primary data from Laos, we compare a broad range of different types of shocks in terms of their incidence, distribution between the poor and the better off, idiosyncrasy, costs, coping responses, and self-reported impacts on well-being. Health shocks are more common than most other shocks, more concentrated amon...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Wagstaff A,Lindelow M

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：:Previous analyses of fat taxes have generally worked within an empirical framework in which it is difficult to determine whether consumers benefit from the policy. This note outlines on simple means to determine whether consumers benefit from a fat tax by comparing the ratio of expenditures on the taxed good to the we...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Lusk JL,Schroeter C

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2011, the USA had the second highest teen birth rate of any developed nation, according to the World Bank, . In an effort to lower teen pregnancy rates, several states have enacted policies requiring abstinence-based sex education. In this study, we utilize a difference-in-differences research design to analyze the...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Carr JB,Packham A

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper estimates the health dimension of the welfare cost of homicides in Brazil incorporating age, gender, educational, and regional heterogeneities. We use a marginal willingness to pay approach to assign monetary values to the welfare cost of increased mortality due to violence. Results indicate that the presen...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Cerqueira D,Soares RR

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of health services employment in the United States is modelled using ARIMA analysis, and related to the growth in total U.S. employment. It is argued that specific features of the medical care sector (licensed professional manpower, non-profit firms, third-party financing) create institutional rigidities wh...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Kendix M,Getzen TE

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The appropriate thresholds for decisions on the cost-effectiveness of medical interventions remain controversial, especially in 'end-of-life' situations. Evidence of the values placed on different types of health gain by the general public is limited. METHODS:Across nine European countries, 17,657 people we...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Pennington M,Baker R,Brouwer W,Mason H,Hansen DG,Robinson A,Donaldson C,EuroVaQ Team.

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The usual implementation of contingent valuation (CV), in the context of priorities setting for allocation of public funds in health care, is to develop as many surveys as there are programmes, i.e. to perform separate evaluations (SE). In the EuroWill project, three health programmes (for heart disease, breast cancer...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Luchini S,Protière C,Moatti JP

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obese children tend to perform worse academically than normal-weight children. If poor cognitive achievement is truly a consequence of childhood obesity, this relationship has significant policy implications. Therefore, an important question is to what extent can this correlation be explained by other factors that joi...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Black N,Johnston DW,Peeters A

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:We estimated lifetime costs of publicly funded social care, covering services such as residential and nursing care homes, domiciliary care and meals. Like previous studies, we constructed microsimulation models. However, our transition probabilities were estimated from longitudinal, linked administrative health and so...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Steventon A,Roberts A

更新日期：2015-12-01 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 difference-in-difference-in-differences method, we examine the effect of the National Health Insurance (NHI) on mortality, self-assessed health, and functional limitations of the elderly and seek to determine whether the effect is spread equally across health classes. We find that the NHI only has an effect ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Keng SH,Sheu SJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I have developed a random effects probit model in which the distribution of the random intercept is approximated by a discrete density. Monte Carlo results show that only three to four points of support are required for the discrete density to closely mimic normal and chi-squared densities and provide unbiased estimat...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Deb P

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To keep elder employees in the labour force, introducing age-dependent job conditions can be a policy measure. However, we know little about the effect of such initiatives. We investigate the effects of a particular programme in Norway that reduces the workload of teachers at age 55 but maintains the same wage. Evalua...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Bratberg E,Holmås TH,Monstad K

更新日期：2020-05-01 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：:Authors of benefit-incidence analyses (BIA) have to impute subsidies using assumptions about the relationship between unobserved subsidies 'captured' by the household and what can be observed at the household and aggregate levels. This paper shows that one of the two assumptions used in BIA studies to date will necess...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Wagstaff A

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:The assessment of health states considered to be worse than dead is a controversial issue. OBJECTIVE:To investigate how health states are valued when they are close to dead. Differences between adjacent states are compared with the differences between the first positive/first negative state with death. MET...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Stalmeier PF,Busschbach JJ,Lamers LM,Krabbe PF

更新日期：2005-07-01 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