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Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care
Skinner, Jonathan - 2009
Inefficiency in the U.S. health care system has often been characterized as "flat of the curve" spending providing little or no incremental value. In this paper, we draw on macroeconomic models of diffusion and productivity to better explain the empirical patterns of outcome improvements in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463783
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The Impact of New Laboratory Procedures and Other Medical Innovations on the Health of Americans, 1990-2003 : Evidence from Longitudinal, Disease-Level Data
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2006
higher rates of lab and outpatient innovation had greater declines in the probability of missing work during 1996-2003. This … for initial disability, the inverse relationship between lab innovation and disability changes disappears. This is because … there is a significant inverse relationship between initial health and the extent of laboratory innovation. But due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466549
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Estimating the Impact of Medical Innovation : A Case Study of HIV Antiretroviral Treatments
Duggan, Mark G. - 2005
As health care consumes a growing share of national income in the U.S., the demand for better estimates regarding both the benefits and the costs of new health care treatments is likely to increase. Estimating these effects with observational data is difficult given the endogeneity of treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467576
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Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Health Care
Chandra, Amitabh - 2011
In the United States, health care technology has contributed to rising survival rates, yet health care spending relative to GDP has also grown more rapidly than in any other country. We develop a model of patient demand and supplier behavior to explain these parallel trends in technology growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461704
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The Future of Health Economics
Fuchs, Victor R. - 1999
This paper discusses health economics as a behavioral science and as input into health policy and health services research. I illustrate the dual role with data on publications and citations of two leading health economics journals and three leading American health economists. Five important,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471405
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The Quality of Health Care Providers
McClellan, Mark - 1999
Obtaining better information on the quality of health care providers is one of the most pressing issues in health policy today. In this paper we (1) develop a new method for measuring quality of care that overcomes the key limitations of available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471457
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Advances in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Health Interventions
Garber, Alan M. - 1999
The growing application of cost-effectiveness (CE) analysis and controversies about its methods has led to a need to explore its welfare economic foundations. Examination of its welfare theoretic foundations can provide a rationale for selecting specific standards for the application of CE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471590
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Inequalities in Income and Inequalities in Health
Deaton, Angus - 1999
What is inequality in health? Are economists' standard tools for measuring income inequality relevant or useful for measuring it? Does income protect health and does income inequality endanger it? I discuss two different concepts of health inequality and relate each of them to the literature on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471653
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Quality Improvement in Health Care : A Framework for Price and Output Measurement
Shapiro, Irving - 1999
The durability of health care treatment, the substantial technical change in health care treatment, and the prevalence of third-party payment interact to create substantial difficulty in measuring the price and output of health care. This paper provides a framework for analyzing the demand for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471836
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Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans
Chan, David C.; Card, David E.; Taylor, Lowell J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study public vs. private provision of health care for veterans aged 65 and older who may receive care provided by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and in private hospitals financed by Medicare. Utilizing the ambulance design of Doyle et al. (2015), we find that the VA reduces 28-day...
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