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Cost-effectiveness of a non-pharmacological treatment vs. “care as usual” in day care centers for community-dwelling older people with cognitive impairment : results from the Germa...
Steinbeisser, Kathrin; Schwarzkopf, Larissa; Graessel, Elmar - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 21 (2020) 6, pp. 825-844
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Chapter Eight. Cost Effectiveness and Payment Policy
Garber, Alan M.; Sculpher, Mark J. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 2, (pp. 471-497). 2011
Cost-effectiveness analysis is versatile and used widely to assist in health care decision making. This chapter discusses how cost-effectiveness analysis is used at the system or national level, particularly in the domain of coverage and payment policy. We describe its relationship to other...
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Genetic Risk for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias : Cognition, Economic Behavior, and Clinically Actionable Information
Jeong, Yeongmi; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Skira, Meghan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Genetic factors play a major role in the development of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). Observable genetic factors could impact household planning and medical care if they contain actionable information, meaning that they i) are associated with significant harms, ii) reflect...
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How Do Surrogates Make Treatment Decisions for Patients with Dementia? An Experimental Survey Study
Nicholas, Lauren Hersch; Langa, Kenneth M.; Halpern, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
to recommend life-sustaining treatments for patients with dementia, especially after personal exposure. Second …, respondents were more likely to ignore patient preferences for life-extending treatment when the patient had dementia, and choose … unwanted life-extending treatments for patients without dementia. Third, in scenarios where the patient's wishes were unclear …
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Improving Cost-Effectiveness in the Health Care Sector in Iceland
Suppanz, Hannes - 2008
Health outcomes and the quality of health care in Iceland are very good by international comparison, while income-related health inequality appears to be smaller than in most other countries. However, the health-care system is costly and, according to OECD estimates, public expenditure on health...
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Il pendolo italiano. Note fra economia e politica (R. TARGETTI LENTI)
BERETTA, SILVIO - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 118 (2010) 3, pp. 397-398
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Individual Rights and Duties in Health Policy
Muraro, Gilberto; Rebba, Vincenzo - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 118 (2010) 3, pp. 379-396
A growing body of thought in the literature and the policy debate is calling for eligibility criteria and funding methods in healthcare to be predicated on individual responsibility. To date this approach has had no tangible impact on public health systems: the choice adopted is to avoid...
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The Prevention of Lifestyle-Related Chronic Diseases: an Economic Framework
Sassi, Franco; Hurst, Jeremy - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2008
This paper provides an economic perspective on the prevention of chronic diseases, focusing in particular on diseases linked to lifestyle choices. The proposed economic framework is centred on the hypothesis that the prevention of chronic diseases may provide the means for increasing social...
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The role of anti-smoking legislation on cigarette and alcohol consumption habits in Italy
Pieroni, Luca; Chiavarini, Manuela; Minelli, Liliana; … - In: Health Policy 111 (2013) 2, pp. 116-126
The short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking and drinking habits were investigated in this paper. In 2005, a smoking ban was introduced in Italy, and we exploited this exogenous variation to measure the effect on both smoking participation and intensity and the indirect...
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Spurious correlation in estimation of the health production function : a note
Akkoyunlu, Sule; Lichtenberg, Frank R.; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2009
In this paper, we address the issue of spurious correlation in the production of health in a systematic way. Spurious correlation entails the risk of linking health status to medical (and nonmedical) inputs when no links exist. This note first presents the bounds testing procedure as a method to...
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