Price elasticity of expenditure across health care services.

abstract：:In evaluation research, some interventions are designed to affect both the subjects that receive the intervention and those that do not. Preferred provider organizations (PPOs) are an example, because if they are successful, PPOs will direct patients away from non-preferred providers towards preferred providers. When ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Dowd B,Feldman R

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilizing data from a clinical trial and an econometric model incorporating the impact of a medical intervention and regression to the mean, we present evidence supporting the hypotheses that for chronically depressed individuals: (i) the level of perceived at-work performance is negatively related to the severity of ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Berndt ER,Finkelstein SN,Greenberg PE,Howland RH,Keith A,Rush AJ,Russell J,Keller MB

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eliciting health state valuations, two widely used methods are the standard gamble (SG) and the time trade off (TTO). Both methods make assumptions about individual preferences that are too restrictive to allow them to act as perfect proxies for utility. Therefore, a choice between them might instead be made on emp...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Dolan P,Gudex C,Kind P,Williams A

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For decades, the US public and private sectors have committed substantial resources towards cancer research, but the societal payoff has not been well-understood. We quantify the value of recent gains in cancer survival, and analyze the distribution of value among various stakeholders. Between 1988 and 2000, life expe...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Lakdawalla DN,Sun EC,Jena AB,Reyes CM,Goldman DP,Philipson TJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper estimates a multiproduct variable cost function using data on a sample of California hospitals. The results provide useful insights into the advantages and disadvantages of flexible functional forms for cost analysis. The translog function appears to provide reasonable estimates of marginal costs when evalu...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Vita MG

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide a model where hospitals compete on quality under fixed prices to investigate how hospital competition affects (i) quality differences between hospitals, and as a result, (ii) health inequalities across hospitals and patient severities. The answer to the first question is ambiguous and depends on factors rel...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Siciliani L,Straume OR

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 1975 paper, Neuhauser and Lewicki analysed a colorectal cancer screening policy approved by the American Cancer Society. Their analysis yielded an incremental cost per case detected in excess of $47 million. This vivid demonstration of the impact of marginal analysis is frequently cited by health economists and i...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Brown K,Burrows C

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical studies of the diffusion of innovations have not addressed adequately econometric problems that are characteristic of such analyses. Reanalysis of data for five innovations using an estimator with desirable statistical properties results in a considerably revised estimate of the impact of prospective reimbur...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Lee RH,Waldman DM

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Economists often estimate models with a log-transformed dependent variable. The results from the log-transformed model are often retransformed back to the unlogged scale. Other studies have shown how to obtain consistent estimates on the original scale but have not provided variance equations for those estimates. In t...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Ai C,Norton EC

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimates of the surplus loss due to physician practice variation measure the area under the 'shifted' demand curve. This method is valid only if the unshifted demand curve is derived form the distribution of true(ex post) values of care. If the unshifted demand curve does not reflect the true value of care, then the ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Dranove D

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why do people purchase health insurance? Many economists would answer that it permits purchasers to avoid risk of financial loss. This note suggests that health insurance is also demanded because it represents a mechanism for gaining access to health care that would otherwise be unaffordable. For example, although a U...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Nyman JA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a field experiment comparing hypothetical and real purchase decisions for a pharmacist provided asthma management program among 172 subjects with asthma. Subjects received either a dichotomous choice contingent valuation question or were given the opportunity to actually enroll in the program. Three diffe...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Blumenschein K,Johannesson M,Yokoyama KK,Freeman PR

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigates production and cost effects of teaching in radiology departments. If students are substitutes for physicians, production costs may be less in teaching than in non-teaching hospitals for a given level of output. Empirical results for Veterans Administration hospitals suggest that teaching reduces costs for...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Hosek JR,Palmer AR

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute care hospitals have long been viewed as multi-product 'firms', a characteristic which has necessitated special adjustments for cost analyses of this sector. Output mix adjustment has generally had an ad hoc flavour, with service/facility proxies and patient mix variables often being used interchangeably. Where s...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Barer ML

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We use household survey data and a unique census of institutionalized children to analyze the impact of abortion legalization in Romania. We exploit the lift of the abortion ban in December 1989, when communist dictator Ceausescu and his regime were removed from power, to understand its impact on children's health at ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Mitrut A,Wolff FC

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While in theory the strength of preferences for equity in health can be expressed in an 'inequality aversion parameter', in practice, analysts would have to obtain them from people's choices. We are faced with a number of methodological problems when turning to this type of empirical research. This note investigates w...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Olsen JA

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measuring the lifetime costs and benefits of medical technologies is essential in evaluating technological change and determining the productivity of medical care. Using data on Medicare beneficiaries with a heart attack in the late 1980s and 17 years of follow up data, I evaluate the long-term costs and benefits of r...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Cutler DM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we examine the relationships between health care visits to general practitioners, public and private sector specialists using data from Italy, which has a mixed public-private health care system. We develop a simultaneous equations model that allows for the discreteness of measures of utilization and es...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Atella V,Deb P

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Criteria for initiation of highly active antiretroviral treatments (HAART) in HIV-infected patients remain a matter of debate world-wide because short-term benefits have to be balanced with costs of these therapies, and restrictions placed on future treatment options if resistant viral strains develop. On the other ha...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Lasserre P,Moatti JP,Soubeyran A

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article introduces an empirical strategy to the compensating differentials literature that (i) allows both individual observed and unobserved characteristics to be rewarded differently in firms based on health insurance provision, and (ii) selection to jobs that provide benefits to operate on both sides of the la...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Lehrer SF,Pereira NS

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper studies the design of long term care (LTC) insurance contracts in the presence of ex post moral hazard. While this problem bears some similarity with the study of health insurance (Blomqvist, 1997) the significance of informal LTC affects the problem in several crucial ways. It introduces the potential crow...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Cremer H,Lozachmeur JM,Pestieau P

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graduated driver licensing (GDL) is a critical policy tool for potentially improving teenage driving while reducing teen accident exposure. While previous studies demonstrated that GDL reduces teenage involvement in fatal crashes, much remains unanswered. We explore the mechanisms through which GDL influences accident...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Karaca-Mandic P,Ridgeway G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study used 1982-1986 data on 262 private community hospitals to evaluate the effects of selective contracting for inpatient services by California's Medicaid program. Selective contracting by Medicaid significantly reduced the rate of inflation in average costs per admission and per patient day, while slightly in...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Robinson JC,Phibbs CS

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Youth smoking is an important target for public policy. The implicit assumption behind targeting youth is that policies that reduce youth smoking initiation will reduce lifetime smoking propensities. This assumption has never been tested empirically. I use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Glied S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the theory of multiproduct cost functions, a treatment cost function is derived for diseases which progress through a number of stages. The output classes are conceived as the stages at detection of the disease, with the unit of output within each class being the treated case. The derivation clarifies the assump...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Butler JR,Furnival CM,Hart RF

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1991 and 1998 English general practices had the option of holding budgets for prescribing and elective secondary care. Fundholding was reintroduced in 2005. We examine the effect of fundholding on patients' satisfaction with their practice, using a cross section of 4441 patients from 60 practices in the last y...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Dusheiko M,Gravelle H,Yu N,Campbell S

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical researchers are rapidly identifying the genetic causes of many diseases. Genes that increase the risk of contracting Alzheimer's, colon and breast cancer, Huntington's, cystic fibrosis and numerous other diseases have been identified. Genetic tests can reveal an individual's probable health status many years i...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Tabarrok A

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As health care costs increase, cost-control mechanisms become more widespread and it is crucial to understand their implications for the health care market. This paper examines the effect that managed care activity (based on the aim to control health care expenditure) has on the adoption of technologies by hospitals. ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Mas N,Seinfeld J

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decade, there has been a growing interest in examining health expenditures. In this paper, we study the behaviour of health expenditures in the G3 countries (USA, the UK, and Japan) and three European countries (the UK, Switzerland and Spain) over the period 1960-2000 from a different perspective, in tha...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Narayan PK

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper analyses contracts to keep down costs while maintaining quality of health services when patient demand does not reflect quality. There is then a natural role for forms of contract that have emerged during the reforms of the NHS in Britain that differ from pure fixed price or cost reimbursement contracts. Th...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Chalkley M,Malcomson JM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00