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Experimental measurement of preferences in health and healthcare using best-worst scaling: an overview
Mühlbacher, Axel; Kaczynski, Anika; Zweifel, Peter; … - In: Health economics review 6 (2016) 2, pp. 1-14
review found 53 BWS applications in health and healthcare. This article expounds possibilities of application, the underlying …
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Regret-sensitive treatment decisions
Fujii, Yoichiro; Osaki, Yusuke - In: Health economics review 8 (2018) 14, pp. 1-8
The threshold approach to medical decision-making, in which treatment decisions are made based on whether the probability of sickness exceeds a predetermined threshold, was introduced by (Pauker and Kassirer, N Engl J Med 293:229-234, 1975) and (Pauker and Kassirer, N Engl J Med 302:1109-1116,...
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The effect of job stress on smoking and alcohol consumption
Azagba, Sunday; Sharaf, Mesbah F. - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 15, pp. 1-14
This paper examines the effect of job stress on two key health risk-behaviors: smoking and alcohol consumption, using data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey. Findings in the extant literature are inconclusive and are mainly based on standard models which can model differential...
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Hospital costs associated with posttraumatic stress disorder in somatic patients: a retrospective study
Warth, Rieka von der; Hehn, Philip; Wolff, Jan; Kaier, Klaus - In: Health economics review 10 (2020) 23, pp. 1-8
Background: Post-traumatic stress disorder is likely to affect clinical courses in the somatic hospital ward when appearing as comorbidity. Thus, this study aimed to assess the costs associated with comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder in a somatic hospital and to analyze if reimbursement...
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Private hospital accreditation and inducement of care under the Ghanaian National Insurance Scheme
Amporfu, Eugenia - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 13, pp. 1-9
The Ghanaian National Health Insurance Scheme pays providers according to the fee for service payment scheme, a method of payment that is likely to encourage inducement of care. The goal of this paper is to test for the presence of supplier induced demand among patients who received care in...
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Transitivity in health utility measurement : an experimental analysis
Schmidt, Ulrich; Stolpe, Michael - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 12, pp. 1-4
Several experimental studies have observed substantial violations of transitivity for decisions between risky lotteries over monetary outcomes. The goal of our experiment is to test whether these violations also affect the evaluation of health states. A particular feature of our experimental...
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Mind the information gap : fertility rate and use of cesarean delivery and tocolytic hospitalizations in Taiwan
Ma, Ke-zong M.; Norton, Edward C.; Lee, Shoou-yih D. - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 20, pp. 1-15
Background: Physician-induced demand (PID) is an important theory to test given the longstanding controversy surrounding it. Empirical health economists have been challenged to find natural experiments to test the theory because PID is tantamount to strong income effects. The data requirements...
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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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Methods for measuring horizontal equity in health resource allocation: a comparative study
Tao, Yi; Henry, Kizito; Zou, Qinpei; Zhong, Xiaoni - In: Health economics review 4 (2014) 10, pp. 1-10
There are many existing methodologies on measuring health equity, while seldom has method aiming at health resource allocation. We collected 6 method of measuring equity in health resource allocation. This paper presents key contents of methods on measuring horizontal equity in health service...
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Is healthcare a "necessity" or "luxury"? : an empirical evidence from public and private sector analyses of South-East Asian countries?
Khan, Jahangir A. M.; Mahumud, Rashidul Alam - In: Health economics review 5 (2015) 3, pp. 1-9
healthcare expenditure in public and private sectors separately for investigating whether healthcare is a "necessity" or "luxury … random-effect models were fitted to estimate income-elasticity of public, private and total healthcare expenditure. Results … showed that one percent point increase in GDP per capita increased private expenditure on healthcare by 1.128%, while public …
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