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Longitudinal changes and determinants of parental willingness to pay for the prevention of childhood overweight and obesity
Lauer, Romy; Traub, Meike; Hansen, Sylvia; Kilian, Reinhold - In: Health economics review 10 (2020) 15, pp. 1-10
income, and those with abdominally obese children were significant predictors of general WTP at T3. Median amount of WTP at T …
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A cost-effectiveness analysis of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) prophylaxis in infants in the United Kingdom
Bentley, Anthony; Filipovic, Ivana; Gooch, Katherine; … - In: Health economics review 3 (2013) 18, pp. 1-12
Background: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common cause of respiratory infection that is highly prevalent in infants. Severe cases of RSV infection require hospitalisation; this is most likely to occur in infant populations at high risk. The study assesses the cost-effectiveness of...
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Are health risk attitude and general risk attitude associated with healthcare utilization, costs and working ability? : results from the German KORA FF4 cohort study
Lutter, Johanna I.; Szentes, Boglárka Lilla; Wacker, … - In: Health economics review 9 (2019) 26, pp. 1-11
Background: Risk attitudes influence decisions made under uncertainty. This paper investigates the association of risk attitudes with the utilization of preventive and general healthcare services, work absence and resulting costs to explore their contribution to the heterogeneity in utilization....
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Parents’ willingness to pay for the prevention of childhood overweight and obesity
Kesztyüs, Dorothea; Lauer, Romy; Schreiber, Anja C.; … - In: Health economics review 4 (2014) 20, pp. 1-8
included anthropometric measurements of children and self-administered questionnaires for parents, including WTP assessment … overweight/obese children showed with 61.4%, significantly more frequently, their general WTP than the others with 47.2% (p = 0 ….001). Mean WTP was €23.04 (99% confidence interval (CI) [22.45; 23.75]) per month. Parents of centrally obese children showed …
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Food environment and childhood obesity : the effect of dollar stores
Drichoutis, Andreas C.; Nayga, Rodolfo M.; Rouse, Heather L. - In: Health economics review 5 (2015) 37, pp. 1-13
In this paper we examine the effect of dollar stores on children's Body Mass Index (BMI). We use a dataset compiled by … the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement that reflects a BMI screening program for public school children in the state …
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Variation in the relationship between birth weight and subsequent obesity by household income
Kinge, Jonas Minet - In: Health economics review 7 (2017) 18, pp. 1-9
rounds of the Health Survey for England (between 2000–2014; N = 31,043) for children aged 2–16. We regressed obesity in … more pronounced in children from low-income families, compared with children from high-income families. A 1 kg increase in …
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Socio-economic inequality of immunization coverage in India
Lauridsen, Jørgen; Pradhan, Jalandhar - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 11, pp. 1-6
To our knowledge, the present study provides a first time assessment of the contributions of socioeconomic determinants of immunization coverage in India using the recent National Family Health Survey data. Measurement of socioeconomic inequalities in health and health care, and understanding...
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A multilevel analysis of prenatal care and birth weight in Kenya
Awiti, Japheth Osotsi - In: Health economics review 4 (2014) 33, pp. 1-16
The paper investigates the effect of adequate use of prenatal care on birth weight in Kenya using data from the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey of 2008 - 2009 together with additional administrative data. Both a single-level model and a multi-level model are estimated. The estimation...
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Wealth and antenatal care use : implications for maternal health care utilisation in Ghana
Arthur, Eric - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 14, pp. 1-8
that wealth still has a significant influence on adequate use of Antenatal care. Education, age, number of living children …
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A modified Kakwani measure for health inequality
Fjugushige, Mototsugu; Ishikawa, Noriko; Maekawa, Satoko - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 10, pp. 1-7
We propose simple modifications for the Kakwani tax progressivity measure that make it suitable for evaluating access inequality for medical services. Our modification is to measure inequality using the ratio of the concentration index to the Gini coefficient instead of the difference between...
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