Cost-effectiveness analysis of alternative treatments of African gambiense trypanosomiasis in Uganda.

abstract：:Suicide rates for adolescents have doubled since 1970 and tripled since 1960, even as rates for other age groups have declined. Using a Becker-type model of household production and consumption, we demonstrate conditions under which utility maximizing parents allocate time away from time-intensive commodities like chi...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Mathur VK,Freeman DG

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：:The National Health Service (NHS) in England distributes substantial funds to health-care providers in different geographical areas to pay for the health care required by the populations they serve. The formulae that determine this distribution reflect populations' health needs and local differences in the prices of i...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Elliott R,Ma A,Sutton M,Skatun D,Rice N,Morris S,McConnachie A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obese children tend to perform worse academically than normal-weight children. If poor cognitive achievement is truly a consequence of childhood obesity, this relationship has significant policy implications. Therefore, an important question is to what extent can this correlation be explained by other factors that joi...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Black N,Johnston DW,Peeters A

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the impact of language deficiency on the health status of childhood migrants to Australia. Our identification strategy relies on a quasi-experiment comparing immigrants arriving at different ages and from different linguistic origins. In the presence of considerable non-classical measurement error in self-rep...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Clarke A,Isphording IE

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：: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 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：: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：:Each year, the UK records 25,000 or more excess winter deaths, primarily among the elderly. A key policy response is the "Winter Fuel Payment" (WFP), a labelled but unconditional cash transfer to households with a member above the female state pension age. The WFP has been shown to raise fuel spending among eligible h...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Crossley TF,Zilio F

更新日期：2018-05-09 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：:We report the results from two surveys designed to explore whether an application of Harsanyi's principle of choice form behind a veil of ignorance (VEI) can be used in order to measure the health of populations. This approach was tentatively recommended by Murray et al. (Bull. World Health Organ 2000; 78: 981-994; Su...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Pinto-Prades JL,Abellán-Perpiñán JM

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:According to the justification hypothesis, non-employed individuals may over-report their level of work limitation, leading to biased census/survey estimates of the prevalence of severe disabilities and the associated labor force participation rate. For researchers studying policies which impact the disabled or elderl...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Webber DA,Bjelland MJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:This paper estimates the impact of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014 on the decision to be self-employed. Using data from the Current Population Survey, we employ two identification strategies. Utilizing prereform variation in state nongroup health insurance market regulations, we find that t...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Heim BT,Yang LK

更新日期：2017-12-01 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 growth of health services employment in the United States is modelled using ARIMA analysis, and related to the growth in total U.S. employment. It is argued that specific features of the medical care sector (licensed professional manpower, non-profit firms, third-party financing) create institutional rigidities wh...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Kendix M,Getzen TE

更新日期：1994-05-01 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：:Over the last 20 years, acute-care hospitals in most OECD countries have built up costly overcapacities. From the perspective of economic policy, it is desirable to know how hospitals of different ownership forms respond to changes in demand and are probably best suited to deal with existing overcapacities. This artic...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Schwierz C

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:New technologies may displace existing, higher-value care under a fixed budget. Countries aim to curtail adoption of low-value technologies, for example, by installing cost-effectiveness thresholds. Our objective is to estimate the opportunity cost of hospital care to identify a threshold value for the Netherlands. To...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Stadhouders N,Koolman X,van Dijk C,Jeurissen P,Adang E

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the relationship between changes in income inequality and the provision of resources in a health care system (the public-private mix). Specifically, we investigate whether increases in income inequality, as separate from overall income levels and growth, have changed the availability of both privat...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Isabelle M,Stabile M

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：:Healthcare funding decisions in the UK rely on health state valuations of the general public. However, it has been shown that there is disparity between the valuation of the impact of hypothetical conditions on health and the reported health by those experiencing them. Patients' adaptation to health states is among th...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Cubí-Mollá P,Jofre-Bonet M,Serra-Sastre V

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both incremental cost-effectiveness ratios and net benefits have been proposed as summary measures for use in cost-effectiveness analyses. We present a unifying proof of the optimality and equivalence of ICER- and net benefit-based approaches to the health resource allocation problem, including both 'fixed budget' and...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Laska EM,Meisner M,Siegel C,Stinnett AA

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contracts have played a central role in public sector reforms in developed countries over the last decade, and research increasingly highlights their varied nature. In low and middle income countries the use of contracts is encouraged but little attention has been paid to features of the setting that may influence the...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Palmer N,Mills A

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：:Many OECD countries have replaced per-diem hospital reimbursement with lump sum payments by diagnosis-related groups. This study analyzes hospital responses to a large-scale refinement of reimbursement practices in Germany on January 1, 2006, in which regulating authorities introduce reimbursements by treatment intens...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Bäuml M,Kümpel C

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Contingent valuation (CV) has been criticised for being too hypothetical, with expressed values bearing little relation to actual values. The magnitude of this divergence, however, depends upon how realistic and believable the contingent market is. This paper presents an overview of five key aspects in the constructio...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Smith RD

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00