Health effects of reduced workload for older employees.

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：:Although it is commonly argued that there is a mismatch between drug innovation and disease burden, there is little evidence on the magnitude and direction of such disparities. In this paper, we measure inequality in innovation, by comparing research and development activity with population health and gross domestic p...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Barrenho E,Miraldo M,Smith PC

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：: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：:We have taken advantage of a natural experiment to measure the impact of the phased abolition of prescription co-payments in Wales. We investigated 3 study periods covering the phased abolition: from £6 to £4, £4 to £3, and £3 to £0. A difference-in-difference modelling was adopted and applied to monthly UK general pr...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Alam MF,Cohen D,Dunstan F,Hughes D,Routledge P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper critically reviews theoretical and empirical propositions regarding visual analogue scale (VAS) valuations of health states and their use in cost-utility analysis (CUA). A widely repeated assertion in the economic evaluation literature is the inferiority, on theoretical grounds, of VAS valuations. Five comm...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Parkin D,Devlin N

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses some of the economic issues which underpin the rationale for investment in information and communications technologies (ICTs). Information imperfections lead to significant transaction costs (search, negotiating and monitoring) which in turn confer a negative externality on parties involved in exc...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Ferguson B,Keen J

更新日期：1996-01-01 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 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：: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：:Much recent research interest has focused on handling uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis and in particular the calculation of confidence intervals for incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs). Problems of interpretation when ICERs are negative have led to two important and related developments: the use of...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Sendi PP,Briggs AH

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many health care markets, physicians can respond to changes in reimbursement schemes by changing the volume (volume response) and the composition of services provided (substitution response). We examine the relative importance of these two behavioral responses in the context of physician drug dispensing in Switzerl...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Burkhard D,Schmid CPR,Wüthrich K

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently acquired ability to identify 97% of CF carriers in an Israeli Ashkenazi population, prompts an evaluation of a nationwide screening programme. In 1993, the programme would first screen and counsel 9,261 parents, then 396 spouses of carrier parents and finally screen 16.5 fetuses where both parents are car...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Ginsberg G,Blau H,Kerem E,Springer C,Kerem BS,Akstein E,Greenberg A,Kolumbos A,Abeliovich D,Gazit E

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:Recent years have seen considerable interest in examining the impact of food prices on food consumption and subsequent health consequences. Fiscal policies targeting the relative price of unhealthy foods are frequently put forward as ways to address the obesity epidemic. Conversely, various food subsidy interventions ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Cornelsen L,Green R,Turner R,Dangour AD,Shankar B,Mazzocchi M,Smith RD

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：: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：: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：:The rising rate of obesity has reached epidemic proportions and is now one of the most serious public health challenges facing the US. However, the underlying causes for this increase are unclear. This paper examines the effect of family income changes on body mass index (BMI) and obesity using data from the National ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Schmeiser MD

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Government projections of future health care expenditures--a great concern given the aging baby-boom generation--are based on econometric regressions that control explicitly for age but do not control for end-of-life expenditures. Because expenditures increase dramatically on average at the end of life, predictions of...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Stearns SC,Norton EC

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate risk selection between public and private health insurance in Germany. With risk-rated premiums in the private system and community-rated premiums in the public system, advantageous selection in favor of private insurers is expected. Using 2000 to 2007 data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SO...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Grunow M,Nuscheler R

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sector wide approach (SWAp) emerged during the 1990s as a mechanism for managing aid from the multiplicity of development partners that operate in the recipient country's health, education or agricultural sectors. Health SWAps aim to give increased control to recipient governments, allowing greater domestic influe...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Sweeney R,Mortimer D

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

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：:Non-compliance with medication therapy remains an unsolved and expensive problem for healthcare systems around the world, yet we know little about the factors that affect a patient's decision to follow treatment recommendations. In particular, there is little evidence on the extent to which doctors can influence patie...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Koulayev S,Simeonova E,Skipper N

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00