解剖学和形态学
麻醉学
听力与言语-语言病理学
行为科学
心脏和心血管系统
细胞和组织工程学
临床神经病学
危重症监护医学
牙科,口腔外科和医学
皮肤病学
急诊医学
内分泌学和新陈代谢
肠胃学和肝脏学
老人病学和老年医学
卫生保健科学和服务
血液学
免疫学
传染病
综合和补充性医学
医学伦理学
医学信息学
医学实验室技术
医学,全科和内科
医学,法律
医学,研究和试验
神经系统科学
护理
营养学和饮食学
产科医学和妇科医学
肿瘤学
眼科学
整形外科学
耳鼻喉科学
病理学
儿科学
周围血管疾病
药理学和药剂学
生理学
基本医疗保健
精神病学
公共、环境和职业卫生
放射学,核医学和医学成像
康复学
生殖生物学
呼吸系统
风湿病学
运动科学
外科学
毒理学
热带医学
泌尿学和肾脏学
病毒学
老年医学
健康政策和服务
心理学,临床
abstract::China's recent and ambitious health care reform involves a shift from the reliance on markets to the reaffirmation of the central role of the state in the financing and provision of services. In collaboration with the Government of the Ningxia province, we examined the impact of two key features of the reform on healt...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.3060
更新日期:2015-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviours (drinking and smoking). Lottery winnings allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.3035
更新日期:2015-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::The paper discusses the impact of centre selection on the generalisability of randomised controlled trial (RCT)-based economic evaluations and suggests a future research agenda. The first section briefly reviews the current methods for addressing generalisability. We argue that these methods make no verifiable assumpt...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.3039
更新日期:2015-04-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.3020
更新日期:2015-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The use of long-term care (LTC) is changing rapidly. In the Netherlands, rates of institutional LTC use are falling, whereas homecare use is growing. Are these changes attributable to declining disability rates, or has LTC use given disability changed? And have institutionalization rates fallen regardless of disabilit...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.3114
更新日期:2015-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The appropriate thresholds for decisions on the cost-effectiveness of medical interventions remain controversial, especially in 'end-of-life' situations. Evidence of the values placed on different types of health gain by the general public is limited. METHODS:Across nine European countries, 17,657 people we...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.3018
更新日期:2015-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Evidence suggests that maternal and offspring smoking behaviour is correlated. Little is known about the mechanisms through which this intergenerational transfer occurs. This paper explores the role of time preferences. Although time preference is likely to be heritable and correlated with health investments, its role...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2987
更新日期:2014-12-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2990
更新日期:2014-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Congress passed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) in 1986, guaranteeing a standard of medical care to anyone who entered an emergency room. This guarantee made default a more reliable substitute for medical insurance. I construct a tractable structural model of the medical insurance market ...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2985
更新日期:2014-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Economic theory suggests that income growth could lead to changes in consumption quantity and quality as the spending on a commodity changes. Similarly, the volume and quality of healthcare consumption could rise with incomes because of demographic changes, usage of innovative medical technologies, and other factors. ...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2986
更新日期:2014-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Gender differences in drinking patterns are potentially important for public policies, especially policies that rely extensively on higher alcohol taxes and prices. This paper presents a systematic review of alcohol prices and gender differences in drinking and heavy drinking by adults and young adults. Starting with ...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1002/hec.2974
更新日期:2014-10-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2970
更新日期:2014-08-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2971
更新日期:2014-08-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2965
更新日期:2014-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The origin of the obesity epidemic in developing countries is still poorly understood. It has been prominently argued that economic development provides a natural interpretation of the growth in obesity. This paper tests the main aggregated predictions of the theoretical framework to analyze obesity. Average body weig...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2968
更新日期:2014-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::We investigate risk selection between public and private health insurance in Germany. With risk-rated premiums in the private system and community-rated premiums in the public system, advantageous selection in favor of private insurers is expected. Using 2000 to 2007 data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SO...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2942
更新日期:2014-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Using primary data from Laos, we compare a broad range of different types of shocks in terms of their incidence, distribution between the poor and the better off, idiosyncrasy, costs, coping responses, and self-reported impacts on well-being. Health shocks are more common than most other shocks, more concentrated amon...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2944
更新日期:2014-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The perception of health risks and risky health behaviors are closely associated. In this paper, we investigate the accuracy of health risk perceptions among obese individuals, aged 50-62 years. We compare subjective risk perceptions for various diseases elicited in the American Life Panel to individual's objective ri...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2933
更新日期:2014-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::This paper combined data collected from war time government records with survey data including background characteristics, such as factors that affected eligibility, to examine the adult depression outcomes of individuals who were evacuated from Finland to temporary foster care in Sweden during World War II. Using war...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2913
更新日期:2014-03-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.3016
更新日期:2014-02-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2900
更新日期:2014-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2895
更新日期:2013-12-01 00:00:00
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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2886
更新日期:2013-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::The US federal government has recently made a substantial investment to enhance the US health information technology (IT) infrastructure. Previous literature on the impact of IT on firm performance across multiple industries has emphasized the importance of a process of co-invention whereby organizations develop compl...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2878
更新日期:2013-10-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2955
更新日期:2013-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::This paper exploits state health education (HED) reforms as quasi-natural experiments to estimate the causal impact of HED received by children on their parents' physical activity. We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the period 1999-2005 merged with data on state HED reforms from the National Assoc...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2958
更新日期:2013-09-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2831
更新日期:2013-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::In this paper, we introduce a tractable social welfare function that is rich enough to disentangle attitudes towards risk in health outcomes from attitudes towards health inequalities across individuals. Given this preference specification, we evaluate how the introduction of uncertainty over the severity of illness a...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2858
更新日期:2013-06-01 00:00:00
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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2800
更新日期:2013-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::This research note analyzes differences in the number of absent working days and doctor visits and in their cyclicality between private sector, public sector and self-employed workers. For this purpose, I used large-scale German survey data for the years 1995 to 2007 to estimate random effects negative binomial (count...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.2808
更新日期:2013-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The objective of this paper is to study the impact of risk perception and diagnostic information on medical prevention decisions. The intertemporal preferences of individuals are represented by a model of recursive rank dependent utility, which has the advantage of allowing risk perceptions to vary over time and with ...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.1822
更新日期:2013-02-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.1812
更新日期:2013-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.1815
更新日期:2013-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The derivation of population norms using simple generic health-related quality of life measures to inform policy has been recommended in the literature. This letter illustrates the derivation of population norms for the SF-6D in the United Kingdom. It uses a sample of 22,166 respondents from the 2010 wave of the study...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.1823
更新日期:2012-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Previous analyses of fat taxes have generally worked within an empirical framework in which it is difficult to determine whether consumers benefit from the policy. This note outlines on simple means to determine whether consumers benefit from a fat tax by comparing the ratio of expenditures on the taxed good to the we...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.1789
更新日期:2012-11-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.1792
更新日期:2012-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Willan and Eckermann describe a method for dealing with heterogeneity in value of information (VOI) calculations for prioritising and designing new research. Their article raises three fundamental (inter-related) issues for VOI methods: (1) how to make sense of the concept of uncertainty in a cost-effectiveness analys...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 评论,杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.1797
更新日期:2012-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Outpatient visit co-payments have increased in recent years. We estimate the patient response to a price change for specialty care, based on a co-payment increase from $15 to $50 per visit for veterans with hypertension. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS:A retrospective cohort of veterans required to pay co-pay...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.1759
更新日期:2012-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::For the 10% to 15% of American married couples who experience reproductive problems, in vitro fertilization (IVF) is the leading technologically advanced treatment procedure. However, IVF's expense may prevent many couples from receiving treatment, and those who are treated may take an overly aggressive approach to re...
journal_title:Health economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.1776
更新日期:2012-08-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/hec.1774
更新日期:2012-08-01 00:00:00