Welfare consequences of access to health insurance for rural households: Evidence from the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in China.

abstract：:In the absence of a perfect risk adjustment scheme, reimbursing health insurers' costs can reduce risk selection in community-rated health insurance markets. In this paper, we develop a model in which insurers determine the cost efficiency of health care and have incentives for risk selection. We derive the optimal co...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Kifmann M,Lorenz N

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：:The Future Elderly Model (FEM) is a microsimulation model designed to forecast health status, longevity, and a variety of economic outcomes. Compared to traditional actuarial models, microsimulation models provide greater opportunities for policy forecasting and richer detail, but they typically build upon smaller sam...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Leaf DE,Tysinger B,Goldman DP,Lakdawalla DN

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, the determinants of growth of aggregate health expenditures are investigated. The study departs from previous literature in that it looks at differences across countries in growth (and not levels) of health care expenditures. Estimation is made for 24 OECD countries. Health system characteristics usuall...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Barros PP

更新日期：1998-09-01 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 objective of this paper is to determine the price sensitivity of smokers in their consumption of cigarettes, using evidence from a major increase in California cigarette prices due to Proposition 10 and the Tobacco Settlement. The study sample consists of individual survey data from Behavioral Risk Factor Survey (...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Sheu ML,Hu TW,Keeler TE,Ong M,Sung HY

更新日期：2004-08-01 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 1996, free choice of health insurers was introduced to the German social health insurance system. One objective was to increase efficiency through competition. A crucial precondition for effective competition among health insurers is that consumers search for lower-priced health insurers. We test this hypothesis by...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Tamm M,Tauchmann H,Wasem J,Gress S

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of undocumented migrants in high-income countries has increased in recent decades, imposing considerable political, fiscal, and social pressures on governments. This has fostered discussions on whether and to what extent undocumented migrants should get access to public programs and public benefits. Looking...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Jiménez-Rubio D,Vall Castelló J

更新日期：2020-08-01 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 paper analyses the aggregate relationships between traffic accidents and real economic activity in Spain during the last 30 years. Our general approach is based on two basic assumptions: (1) the number of accidents depends on the use of cars and other exogenous variables, and (2) the level of economic activity af...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： García-Ferrer A,De Juan A,Poncela P

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I study the effect of prescription drug essential health benefits (EHB) requirements from the Affordable Care Act on prescription drug formularies of health insurance marketplace plans. The EHB regulates the number of drugs covered but leaves other dimensions (cost sharing and utilization management) of the formulary ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Andersen M

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research assessing the relationship between government health expenditure and development assistance for health channeled to governments (DAHG) has not considered that this relationship may depend on whether DAHG is increasing or decreasing. We explore this issue using general method of moments estimation and a panel ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Dieleman JL,Hanlon M

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous work (Health Econ. 2004; 13: 417-427; Health Econ. 2006; 15: 319-322) has suggested that survivor consumption costs should be included in cost-utility analyses only if the corresponding utility gains are also included. Here, it is further argued that the welfare implications of survivor consumption are alr...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Nyman JA

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Korea's rapid population aging has been considered as a major factor in increase of healthcare expenditure (HCE). However, there were no clear empirical evidences in Korea that show if population aging has a significant impact on HCE. To examine the 'red herring' argument, this study used Heckman, two-part, and augmen...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Hyun KR,Kang S,Lee S

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：: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：: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 aims of this study were to analyse (1) whether informal care, provided by children or grandchildren to their elderly parents, and formal care are substitutes or complements, and (2) whether this relationship differs across Europe. The analyses were based on cross-sectional data from the newly developed SHARE (Surv...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Bolin K,Lindgren B,Lundborg P

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:Laws mandating that individuals wear a seat belt have the presumed goal of reducing motor vehicle accident fatalities, but the prevailing view is that they may reduce the number of organs available. I provide a conceptual model identifying mechanisms whereby the law could either increase or decrease organ donation. Ex...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Brewer B

更新日期：2020-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this paper is to evaluate the effect of a non-fatal road crash on the health-related quality of life of injured people. A new approach based on the cardinalization of categorical Self-Assessed Health valuations is suggested. Health losses have been estimated by using different Time Trade-off and Visua...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Cubí-Mollá P,Herrero C

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of market concentration has been little studied in markets for ambulatory care in the developing world, where the retail sector often accounts for a high proportion of treatments. This study begins to address this gap through an analysis of the consumer market for malaria treatment in rural areas of three d...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Goodman C,Kachur SP,Abdulla S,Bloland P,Mills A

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：: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：:This is a first effort to quantify the contribution of different factors in explaining racial difference in low birthweight rate (LBW). Mother's health, child characteristics, prenatal care, socioeconomic status (SES), and the socioeconomic and healthcare environment of mother's community are important inputs into the...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Lhila A,Long S

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：: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：:This paper empirically investigates the relationship between the health care expenditure of end-of-life patients and hospital characteristics in Taiwan where (i) hospitals of different ownership differ in their financial incentives; (ii) patients are free to choose their providers; and (iii) health care services are p...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Chang S,He Y,Hsieh CR

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00