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Misreporting and Misclassification: Implications for Socioeconomic Disparities in Body-mass Index and Obesity
Ljungvall, Åsa; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Lindblad, Ulf - 2012
height, has become the standard proxy for obesity in social science research. This study deals with the potential problems … the risk of obesity are sensitive to whether BMI or waist circumference is used to define obesity. Education and two … obesity defined using waist circumference, an educational gradient, which is not present when classifying men using BMI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208615
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Do we really value identified lives more highly than statistical lives?
Russell, Louise B. - 2014
Value of Statistical Life (VSL) studies suggest that people's willingness to pay for statistical lives is consistent with their willingness to pay for identified lives. The idea that the valuations are different may be no more than an artifact of the economic method for valuing statistical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396828
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Does fiscal decentralization affect regional disparities in health? Quasi-experimental evidence from Italy
Di Novi, Cinzia; Piacenza, Massimiliano; Robone, Silvana; … - 2019
Recent theories on fiscal decentralization support the view that sub-national governments who finance a larger share of their spending with taxes raised locally by themselves are more accountable towards their citizens. Whilst evidence on improvements in spending efficiency is relatively common,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294325
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Testing for ethnic discrimination in outpatient health care: Evidence from a field experiment in Germany
Halla, Martin; Kah, Christopher; Sausgruber, Rupert - 2021
German names, does not affect whether they receive an appointment or wait time. In contrast, patients with private insurance … are 31 percent more likely to receive an appointment. Holding a private insurance also increases the likelihood of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800470
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Social Assistance and Mental Health: Evidence from Longitudinal Data on Pharmaceutical Consumption
Dackehag, Margareta; Ellegård, Lina Maria; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2018
This paper examines the short-term effect between take-up of Social Assistance Benefit (SAB) and mental health. Using a panel dataset including rich yearly register data on e.g. income, income sources, unemployment and types of pharmaceutical consumption for over 140,000 Swedes 2006-2012, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208802
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Do We Know What We Are Doing? An Exploratory Study on Swedish Health Economists and the EQ-5D
Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Tinghög, Gustav - 2018
The UK tariff for quality of life associated with the health states in the EQ-5D is probably not consistent with the preferences of Swedish health economists. This is worrying in view of the widespread use of the tariff values and the fact that health economists likely are better able than...
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Paying adolescents for health screenings works
Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schober, Thomas - 2021
With regard to their future health, adolescents are at a critical stage. Previous evaluations have shown that health screenings, counselling, and other intervention programmes during this phase of life are important, particularly for those with a low socio-economic background. Unfortunately,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605697
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The intergenerational transmission of opioid dependence: Evidence from administrative data
Ahammer, Alexander; Halla, Martin - 2021
To address the opioid crisis, it is crucial to understand its origins. We provide descriptive evidence for the intergenerational transmission of opioid dependence. Our analysis is based on administrative data covering the universe of Austrian births from 1984 to 1990. We consider prescription...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012662692
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Paying adolescents for health screenings works
Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schober, Thomas - 2021
With regard to their future health, adolescents are at a critical stage. Previous evaluations have shown that health screenings, counselling, and other intervention programmes during this phase of life are important, particularly for those with a low socio-economic background. Unfortunately,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012662713
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Better off by risk adjustment? Socioeconomic disparities in care utilization in Sweden following a payment reform
Anell, Anders; Dackehag, Margareta; Dietrichson, Jens; … - 2022
Reducing socioeconomic health inequalities is a key goal of most health systems. When care providers are paid prospectively, e.g., by a fixed sum per patient, existing inequalities may be sustained by the incentives to undertreat relatively unhealthy patients. To counter this, prospective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318978