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Would you test for 5000 Shillings? : HIV risk and willingness to accept HIV testing in Tanzania

Ostermann, Jan; Brown, Derek S.; Mühlbacher, Axel; … - In: Health economics review 5 (2015) 24, pp. 1-11

Objectives: Despite substantial public health efforts to increase HIV testing, testing rates have plateaued in many countries and rates of repeat testing for those with ongoing risk are low. To inform policies aimed at increasing uptake of HIV testing, we identified characteristics associated...

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Assessing the efficiency of health systems in achieving the universal health coverage goal : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Arhin, Kwadwo; Oteng-Abayie, Eric Fosu; Novignon, Jacob - In: Health economics review 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-16

Objective Universal health coverage (UHC) is a major pathway to save many people from catastrophic and impover‑ ishing healthcare spending and address the inequality in health and healthcare. The objective of this paper is to assess the efciency with which health systems in sub-Saharan Africa...

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Patient preferences for HIV/AIDS therapy : a discrete choice experiment

Mühlbacher, Axel; Stoll, Matthias; Mahlich, Jörg C.; … - In: Health economics review 3 (2013) 14, pp. 1-8

consideration of patient preferences. In the present study, patient preferences regarding treatment of HIV/AIDS were explored using … direct assessment and discrete choice experiment (DCE). Methods: Based on literature research about preferences of HIV/AIDS … patients we conducted a qualitative pre-study. The results were used to compose a questionnaire on relevant aspects of HIV/AIDS …

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Attribute development and level selection for a discrete choice experiment to elicit the preferences of health care providers for capitation payment mechanism in Kenya

Obadha, Melvin; Barasa, Edwine; Kazungu, Jacob; Abiiro, … - In: Health economics review 9 (2019) 30, pp. 1-19

Background: Stated preference elicitation methods such as discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are now widely used in the health domain. However, the “quality” of health-related DCEs has come under criticism due to the lack of rigour in conducting and reporting some aspects of the design...

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Economic evaluation of 2014 cholera outbreak in Ghana : a household cost analysis

Awalime, Dziedzom Kwesi; Davies-Teye, Bernard Bright K.; … - In: Health economics review 7 (2017) 45, pp. 1-15

Introduction: Ghana experienced its worst cholera outbreak in three decades in 2014. Evidence of cholera economic costs on affected households has been limited. This study aimed at determining economic costs on households affected by the cholera outbreak in a Coastal Region of Ghana. Methods:...

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Health shocks in Sub-Saharan Africa: are the poor and uninsured households more vulnerable?

Atake, Esso-Hanam - In: Health economics review 8 (2018) 26, pp. 1-14

Background: In developing countries, health shock is one of the most common idiosyncratic income shock and the main reason why households fall into poverty. Empirical research has shown that in these countries, households are unable to access formal insurance markets in order to insure their...

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The effects of public and private health care expenditure on health status in sub-Saharan Africa : new evidence from panel data analysis

Novignon, Jacob; Olakojo, Solomon A.; Nonvignon, Justice - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 22, pp. 1-8

Background: Health care expenditure has been low over the years in developing regions of the world. A majority of countries in these regions, especially sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), rely on donor grants and loans to finance health care. Such expenditures are not only unsustainable but also...

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The effects of health expenditure on infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from panel data analysis

Kiross, Girmay Tsegay; Chojenta, Catherine; Barker, Daniel - In: Health economics review 10 (2020) 5, pp. 1-9

Introduction: Although health expenditure in sub-Saharan African countries is the lowest compared with other regions in the world, most African countries have improved their budget allocations to health care over the past 15 years. The majority of health care sources in sub-Saharan Africa are...

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Commentary: on the effects of health expenditure on infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa : evidence from panel data analysis

Byaro, Mwoya - In: Health economics review 11 (2021) 1/11, pp. 11

This commentary assesses critically the published article in the Health Economics Review. 2020; 10 (1), 1–9. It explains the effects of health expenditure on infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa using a panel data analysis (i.e. random effects) over the year 2000–2015 extracted from the World...

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Commentary: on the effects of health expenditure on infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa : evidence from panel data analysis

Byaro, Mwoya - In: Health economics review 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-3

Background: This commentary assesses critically the published article in the Health Economics Review. 2020; 10 (1), 1-9. It explains the effects of health expenditure on infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa using a panel data analysis (i.e. random effects) over the year 2000-2015 extracted from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012503634

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