A cost function analysis of residential services for adults with a learning disability.

abstract：:Using data from Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we investigate the determinants of voluntary private health insurance (VPHI) among the over 50s in 11 European countries and their effects on healthcare spending. First, we find that the main determinants of VPHI are different in each country, ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Paccagnella O,Rebba V,Weber G

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：: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：:Waiting times are a major policy concern in publicly funded health systems across OECD countries. Economists have argued that, in the presence of excess demand, waiting times act as nonmonetary prices to bring demand for and supply of health care in equilibrium. Using administrative data disaggregated by region and su...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Riganti A,Siciliani L,Fiorio CV

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A source of controversy in the economic literature concerns whether to include or exclude future medical care costs when computing attributable costs for lifesaving interventions. Although it is hypothesized that including future medical care costs will offset the cost savings achieved through prevention, the magnitud...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Etzioni R,Ramsey SD,Berry K,Brown M

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been recent controversy about whether aid directed specifically to health has caused recipient governments to reallocate their own funds to non-health areas. At the same time, general budget support (GBS) has been increasing. GBS allows governments to set their own priorities, but little is known about how t...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Fernandes Antunes A,Xu K,James CD,Saksena P,Van de Maele N,Carrin G,Evans DB

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：: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：: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

abstract：:The widely-accepted hypothesis of a development sequence from colorectal adenoma to carcinoma is felt by clinicians to legitimate adenoma excision during routine colonoscopic investigation. Using published data on adenoma development, and adenoma prevalence data derived from the Nottingham colorectal cancer screening ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Whynes DK,Walker AR,Hardcastle JD

更新日期：1992-04-01 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：: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：:It is common to find specially constructed condition-specific health state descriptions used as the basis for benefit assessment in cost-utility analysis. For this approach to be valid it is necessary to have valid descriptors of health states. Yet the evidence demonstrating descriptive validity has been neglected in ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Gerard K,Johnston K,Brown J

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper analyses the impact of sugar availability/intake on diabetes expenditure and on total health care expenditure. Building this macroeconomic analysis upon the literature on the determinants of health care expenditure, we estimate a dynamic panel data model over a sample of 156 countries for the period 1995-20...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Castro V

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：:This paper presents a new scoring algorithm for the SF-6D, one of the most popular preference-based health status measures. Previous SF-6D value sets have a minimum (a floor), which is substantially higher than the lowest value generated by the EQ-5D model. Our algorithm expands the range of SF-6D utility scores in su...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Abellán Perpiñán JM,Sánchez Martínez FI,Martínez Pérez JE,Méndez I

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonlinear price schedules generally have heterogeneous effects on health-care demand. We develop and apply a finite mixture bivariate probit model to analyze whether there are heterogeneous reactions to the introduction of a nonlinear price schedule in the German statutory health insurance system. In administrative in...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Farbmacher H,Ihle P,Schubert I,Winter J,Wuppermann A

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：: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：: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

abstract：:The separation of purchaser and provider in government-funded health systems enables competition to develop between providers. Competition is seen as a means to drive technical efficiencies by providers. While it is difficult to assess comprehensively the level of competition in a market taking into account contestabi...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Ashton T,Press D

更新日期：1997-01-01 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

abstract：:Fires and burns are among the leading causes of unintentional death in the USA. Most of these deaths occur in residences, and cigarettes are a primary cause. In this paper, I explore the relationship between smoking, cigarette policies, and fires. As smoking rates decline, there are fewer opportunities for fires; howe...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Markowitz S

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：: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：: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：:When drafting protocols for the use of economic evaluation alongside clinical trials, it is common to have to specify which type of economic evaluation is going to be carried out. Will it be a cost-benefit analysis (CBA), cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) or a cost-utility analysis (CUA)? It is our contention that pri...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Donaldson C,Hundley V,McIntosh E

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has found that high school physical education (PE) requirements are largely ineffective at reducing youth body weight. However, these studies were forced to rely on cross-state variation in PE requirements to identify their impacts, raising concerns that estimated policy effects may be confounded by ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Sabia JJ,Nguyen TT,Rosenberg O

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper focuses on the effects of a 2005 health insurance reform in Vietnam. Through this reform, public health insurance was newly offered to nonpoor children under 6 years old, but it required the use of community health facilities. This requirement potentially limited the value of the insurance. Employing differ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Nguyen MT

更新日期：2020-03-01 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