Determinants of expenditure variation in health care and care of the elderly among Finnish municipalities.

abstract：:The Earned Income Tax Credit is the largest antipoverty program in the USA. In 1993, the Earned Income Tax Credit benefit levels were changed significantly based on the number of children in the family such that families with two or more children experienced an exogenous expansion in their incomes. Using data from the...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Averett S,Wang Y

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：: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：:Staffing is the dominant input in the production of nursing home services. Because of concerns about understaffing in many US nursing homes, a number of states have adopted minimum staffing standards. Focusing on policy changes in California and Ohio, this paper examined the effects of minimum nursing hours per reside...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Chen MM,Grabowski DC

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:We examine the dynamic relationships between economic status and health measures using data from 8 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1999 to 2013. Health measures are self-rated health (SRH) and functional limitations; economic status measures are labor income (earnings), family income, and net wealth. ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Meraya AM,Dwibedi N,Tan X,Innes K,Mitra S,Sambamoorthi U

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：:Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) enables female sex workers (FSWs) to protect themselves from HIV without relying on clients using condoms. Yet, because PrEP reduces HIV risk, financial incentives to not use condoms may lead to risk compensation: reductions in condom use an...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Quaife M,Terris-Prestholt F,Mukandavire Z,Vickerman P

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates the welfare benefits of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS), the main public health insurance plan for the rural population in China. The findings show that the value of the NCMS to recipients is slightly lower than the government's costs of implementation, ranging from 0.79 to 0.97 per RMB ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Sun JY

更新日期：2020-03-01 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 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 recent work, the concentration index has been widely used as a measure of income-related health inequality. The purpose of this note is to illustrate two different methods for decomposing the overall health concentration index using data collected from a Short Form (SF-36) survey of the general Australian populatio...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Clarke PM,Gerdtham UG,Connelly LB

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：:This paper estimates treatment effects of managed care plans on the utilization of health care services using data from two contemporaneous, nationally representative household surveys from the USA. The paper exploits recent advances in simulation-based econometrics to take the endogeneity of enrollment into managed c...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Deb P,Li C,Trivedi PK,Zimmer DM

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：:Excess demand is a pervasive feature of health care systems that use global budgets to pay for hospital care, regardless of the amount of money spent by those systems. This paper presents a theory that explains this feature of global budgets. The theory emphasizes that hospital administrators control the allocation of...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Feldman R,Lobo F

更新日期：1997-03-01 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：: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：:Recently, a number of papers have brought up the issue of how to make cost-effectiveness (CE) studies stochastic, i.e. how to obtain confidence intervals for CE ratios. In this note we present a bootstrap procedure for estimating bias-corrected confidence intervals for CE ratios. The bootstrap procedure is tested in a...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Tambour M,Zethraeus N

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bidding game (BG) method of contingent valuation is one way to increase the precision of willingness to pay (WTP) estimates relative to the single dichotomous choice approach. However, there is evidence that the method may lead to incentive incompatible responses and be associated with starting point bias. While p...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： McNamee P,Ternent L,Gbangou A,Newlands D

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2008, the Rural Health Project (Health XI) was initiated in 40 Chinese counties to pilot interventions aimed at improving local health systems. Performance targets were pre-specified (results-based), and project counties were allowed to tailor their interventions (bottom-up) in recognition of the substantial region...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Zhang H,van Doorslaer E,Xu L,Zhang Y,van de Klundert J

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：:Heterogeneity in reporting of health by socio-economic and demographic characteristics potentially biases the measurement of health disparities. We use anchoring vignettes to identify socio-demographic differences in the reporting of health in Indonesia, India and China. Homogeneous reporting by socio-demographic grou...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Bago d'Uva T,Van Doorslaer E,Lindeboom M,O'Donnell O

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2003 Health Economics paper by Dolan, Olsen, Menzel and Richardson on 'An inquiry into the different perspectives that can be used when eliciting preferences in health' presents a conceptual framework of six perspectives along two dimensions: preferences (personal, social, and socially inclusive personal) and cont...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Tsuchiya A,Watson V

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When health insurance reforms involve non-linear price schedules tied to payment periods (for example, fees levied by quarter or year), the empirical analysis of its effects has to take the within-period time structure of incentives into account. The analysis is further complicated when demand data are obtained from a...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Farbmacher H,Winter J

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Norway specialized health services are provided both by public hospitals and by privately practicing specialists who have a contract with the public sector. A patient's co-payment is the same irrespective of the type of provider he visits. The ambition of equity in the allocation of medical care is high among all p...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Iversen T,Kopperud GS

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:We aim to establish whether it is ever appropriate to conduct cost-minimisation analysis (CMA) rather than cost-effectiveness analysis.We perform a literature review to examine how the use of CMA has changed since Briggs & O'Brien announced its death in 2001. Examples of simulated and trial data are presented: firstly...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Dakin H,Wordsworth S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Waiting times for specialist consultation and non-emergency surgery are often considered an equitable rationing mechanism in the public healthcare sector, because access to care is not based on socioeconomic status. This study tests empirically this claim using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Siciliani L,Verzulli R

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:There are many interventions for HIV/AIDS that require that people know their status and hence require a HIV test. Testing that is driven by a desire to prevent the spread of the disease often has an indirect effect on others. These external effects need to be identified, quantified and included as part of th...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Brent RJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00