Medical marijuana and workers' compensation claiming.

abstract：:Prescription drugs are the third largest component of U.S. healthcare expenditures. The 2006 Medicare Part D and the 2010 Affordable Care Act are catalysts for further growths in utilization becuase of insurance expansion effects. This research investigating the determinants of prescription drug utilization is timely,...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Nianogo T,Okunade A,Fofana D,Chen W

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data from a survey of 800 managers in 12 industries, we find empirical support for the hypothesis that the cost associated with missed work varies across jobs according to the ease with which a manager can find a perfect replacement for the absent worker, the extent to which the worker functions as part of a tea...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Nicholson S,Pauly MV,Polsky D,Sharda C,Szrek H,Berger ML

更新日期：2006-02-01 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

abstract：:There is little evidence about the responsiveness of doctors' labour supply to changes in pay. Given substantial increases in NHS expenditure, new national contracts for hospital doctors and general practitioners that involve increases in pay, and the gradual imposition of a ceiling on hours worked through the Europea...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Ikenwilo D,Scott A

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：:We study horizontal inequity in home care use in the Netherlands, where a social insurance scheme aims to allocate long-term care according to care needs. Whether the system reaches its goal depends not only on whether eligible individuals have equal access to care but also on whether entitlements for care reflect nee...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Tenand M,Bakx P,van Doorslaer E

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：:Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we explore the relationship between body mass and wages. We use quantile regression to provide a broad description of the relationship across the wage distribution. We also allow the relationship to vary by the degree of social skills involved in different jobs. Ou...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Johar M,Katayama H

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health production models include participation in physical activity as an input. We investigate the relationship between participation in physical activity and health using a bivariate probit model. Participation is identified with an exclusion restriction on a variable reflecting sense of belonging to the community. ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Humphreys BR,McLeod L,Ruseski JE

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Appendectomy is a common and relatively simple procedure to remove an inflamed appendix, but the rate of appendectomy varies widely across Europe. This paper investigates factors that explain differences in resource use for appendectomy. We analysed 106,929 appendectomy patients treated in 939 hospitals in 10 European...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Mason A,Or Z,Renaud T,Street A,Thuilliez J,Ward P,EuroDRG group.

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Though risk adjustment is necessary in order to make equitable comparisons of resource utilization in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction patients, there is little in the literature that can be practically applied without access to clinical records or specialized registries. The aim of this study is to show t...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Evans E,Imanaka Y,Sekimoto M,Ishizaki T,Hayashida K,Fukuda H,Oh EH

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:Prior studies have consistently found the incidence and persistence of depression to be higher among persons with low incomes, but causal mechanisms for this relationship are not well understood. This study uses the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort to test several hypotheses about the robustness of th...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Zimmerman FJ,Katon W

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In economic evaluations of health technologies, health outcomes are commonly measured in terms of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). QALYs are the product of time and health-related quality of life. Health-related quality of life, in turn, is determined by a social tariff, which is supposed to reflect the public's p...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Schneider PP

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A three-equation model is used to estimate the multiple effects of antiretroviral medications (ARVs) on the quality of life (QoL) of the elderly with HIV in New York City. The transmission mechanism involves the ARVs having a direct effect on QoL via the side effects of the medications and two other effects (one indir...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Brent RJ

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High costs and deficits in the care of patients with chronic diseases have triggered numerous programs to improve the quality and efficiency of treatment of chronic diseases. Decision makers need to estimate the impact of a disease management program (DMP) on long-term costs and cost-effectiveness in order to decide w...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Gandjour A

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：: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：:This paper is the first to investigate both the technical and cost efficiency of more than 1500 German general hospitals. More specifically, it deals with the question how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure, and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs to nor outputs of the productio...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Herr A

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a large number of situations, activities in health care have to be measured in terms of outcome and cost. However, the cases where outcome is fully captured by a single measure are rather few, so that one uses some index for outcome, computed by weighing together several outcome measures using subjective and somewh...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Bjørner J,Keiding H

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：: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：: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：:The objective of this paper is to analyse the impact that attribute ordering has on the relative importance of the price attribute. A discrete choice experiment was performed in order to elicit psoriasis patients' preferences for treatment. We tested for ordering effect with respect to the price attribute, and disclos...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Kjaer T,Bech M,Gyrd-Hansen D,Hart-Hansen K

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) on acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients have increased substantially in the last 12-15 years because of its clinical effectiveness. The expansion of PCI treatment for AMI patients raises two questions: How did PCI utilization rates vary across European regions, and which...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Hagen TP,Häkkinen U,Belicza E,Fatore G,Goude F,EuroHOPE study group.

更新日期：2015-12-01 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

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：: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：:Using a random sample of more than 4000 veterans, we test the effects of combat exposure on mental health. We focus on two cohorts of veterans: those who served in Vietnam (1964-1975) and the Gulf War (1990-1991). Combat exposure differed between these groups in intensity, duration and elapsed time since exposure. We ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Gade DM,Wenger JB

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focuses on Guizhou Province, a region with difficult geographical conditions and poor economic development, to examine the effect of rainfall shocks on contemporaneous infant health and long-run socioeconomic outcomes in China. The study results indicate that negative rainfall shocks are robustly correlated...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Lin Y,Liu F,Xu P

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00