Financial incentives and physician prescription behavior: Evidence from dispensing regulations.

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：:Consumer dissatisfaction with the quality and limitations of managed health care led to rapid disenrollment from managed care plans and demands for regulation between 1998 and 2003. Managed care organizations, particularly health maintenance organizations (HMOs), now face quality and coverage mandates that restrict th...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Dugan J

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacy acquisition costs for prescription (Rx ) drugs have been trending below levels implied by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) Consumer Price Index for Rx drugs, with the divergence higher when generic approvals are high. Dropping the first 6 months of generic sales from price indices calculated from pharmac...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Wolff C,Lutter R

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：: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：: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：:How donor organs are allocated for transplant can affect their scarcity. In 2008, Israel's Parliament passed an Organ Transplantation Law granting priority on organ donor waiting lists to individuals who had previously registered as organ donors. Beginning in November 2010, public awareness campaigns advertised the pr...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Stoler A,Kessler JB,Ashkenazi T,Roth AE,Lavee J

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：: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：: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：: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：: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

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：:The British Columbia Ministry of Health provides enhanced prescription drug insurance coverage to residents aged 65 and older. This exogenous change in the effective price of prescription drugs is used to investigate aspects of the drug use by seniors. Three sets of issues are of interest. First, what is the effect of...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Grootendorst PV

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The introduction of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) in rural China has been the most rapid and dramatic extension of health insurance coverage in the developing world in this millennium. The literature to date has mainly used the uneven rollout of NCMS across counties as a way of identifying its effects on a...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Hou Z,Van de Poel E,Van Doorslaer E,Yu B,Meng Q

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-distance travellers could be important to any cost-benefit assessment of policies to increase or improve local resources. This study examines the out-of-area hospital admission pattern for patients with Ambulatory Care Sensitive (ACS) conditions, also known as preventable conditions. The availability of local...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Basu J,Friedman B

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthcare funding decisions in the UK rely on health state valuations of the general public. However, it has been shown that there is disparity between the valuation of the impact of hypothetical conditions on health and the reported health by those experiencing them. Patients' adaptation to health states is among th...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Cubí-Mollá P,Jofre-Bonet M,Serra-Sastre V

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper discusses the impact of centre selection on the generalisability of randomised controlled trial (RCT)-based economic evaluations and suggests a future research agenda. The first section briefly reviews the current methods for addressing generalisability. We argue that these methods make no verifiable assumpt...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Gheorghe A,Roberts T,Pinkney TD,Morton DG,Calvert M

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Income inequality hypotheses propose that income differentials and/or income distributions have a detrimental effect on health. This previously well accepted relationship between inequality and health has recently come under scrutiny; some claim that it is a statistical artefact, arguing that aggregate level data are ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Lorgelly PK,Lindley J

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：:Partnerships between government and non-state actors that aim to enhance the quality or efficiency of service delivery are increasingly common in today's development policy landscape. We investigate the impacts of such an approach using data from an experimental supportive intervention to India's malaria control progr...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Das A,Friedman J,Kandpal E

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has recently changed its guidelines on discounting costs and effects in economic evaluations. In common with most other regulatory bodies it now requires that health effects should be discounted at the same rate as costs. We show that the guideline leads to sub-optimal de...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Gravelle H,Brouwer W,Niessen L,Postma M,Rutten F

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Empirical estimates of price elasticities of demand (PED) for pharmaceuticals suggest that they are relatively price inelastic. However, in many settings, a medication and its substitutes and complements face simultaneous differential changes in prices that affect the observed "composite" PED. We exploit an implementa...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Yeung K,Basu A,Hansen RN,Sullivan SD

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：:Gender differences in drinking patterns are potentially important for public policies, especially policies that rely extensively on higher alcohol taxes and prices. This paper presents a systematic review of alcohol prices and gender differences in drinking and heavy drinking by adults and young adults. Starting with ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Nelson JP

更新日期：2014-10-01 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