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Optimal age-based policies for pandemics : an economic analysis of Covid-19 and beyond
Brotherhood, Luiz Mário; Kircher, Philipp; Santos, Cézar - 2023
This paper investigates the importance of the age composition for pandemic policy design. To do so, it introduces an economic framework with age heterogeneity, individual choice, and incomplete information, emphasizing the value of testing. Calibrating the model to the US Covid-19 pandemic...
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The relative value of suicide prevention in health care priority setting
Andrén, Daniela; Laitila, Thomas; Ryen, Linda; … - 2023
This article investigates how the Swedish population values a reduction in the number of suicides in relation to other life-saving interventions within the health care sector. An online discrete choice experiment was conducted with a sample of 1000 Swedish members of the web panel Userneeds to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014441929
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Physician dispensing and the choice between generic and brand-name drugs : do margins affect choice?
Rischatsch, Maurus; Trottmann, Maria - 2009
Many politicians blame physician dispensing (PD) to increase health care expenditure and to undermine independence of drug prescription and income leading to a suboptimal medication. Therefore, PD is not allowed in most OECD countries. In Switzerland, PD is allowed in some regions depending on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900934
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Reimbursement of Medicine Outlays: An Optimal Insurance Approach
Hansen, Bodil O.; keiding, Hans - 1999
In this paper, the reimbursement of spending on medicin is considered as a problem of insurance, where the loss due to illness of the insured is covered totally or partially by an insurance company (which may be the government). The presence of moral hazard (in the form of the individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142226
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Validity of discrete-choice experiments : evidence for health risk reduction
Telser, Harry (contributor); Zweifel, Peter (contributor) - 2003 - October 2003, revised: February 2005
There is growing interest in discrete-choice experiment (DCE) as a method to elicit consumers' preferences in the health care sector. Increasingly this method is used to determine willingness to pay (WTP) for health-related goods. However, its external validity in the health care domain has not...
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Delivering parenting interventions through health services in the Caribbean impact, acceptability and costs
Walker, Susan P.; Powell, Christine; Chang, Susan M.; … - 2015
Integrating early childhood interventions with health and nutrition services has been recommended, however there is limited information on interventions that are effective and feasible for delivery through health services. In this trial we developed and evaluated a parenting program that could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527464
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The psychometric properties of child care quality measures in Ecuadord : lessons for monitoring process variables at scale
López Bóo, Florencia; Dormal, Marta; Weber, Ann - 2016
This paper analyzes four instruments that are widely used to measure the quality of centers serving children ages 0 to 36 months - the CLASS, the ITERS-R, the CC-IT-HOME, and the MITRCC - and that were administered to a sample of 404 child care centers in Ecuador. We first assess the...
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Child care quality and child development
Araujo, María Caridad; Dormal, Marta; Schady, Norbert … - 2017
Development in early childhood predicts schooling and labor market outcomes in adulthood. In this paper we use a fixed effects identification strategy to assess how differences in the quality of child care affect the communication, fine motor, and problem solving skills of infants and toddlers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626015
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La calidad de los jardines de cuidado infantil y el desarrollo infantil
Araujo, María Caridad; Dormal, Marta; Schady, Norbert … - 2017
Development in early childhood predicts schooling and labor market outcomes in adulthood. In this paper we use a fixed effects identification strategy to assess how differences in the quality of child care affect the communication, fine motor, and problem solving skills of infants and toddlers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626020
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On the demand for telemedicine : evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic
Busso, Matias; Gonzalez, Maria P.; Scartascini, Carlos G. - 2021
Telemedicine can expand access to health care at relatively low cost. Historically, however, demand for telemedicine … demand for telemedicine experienced after the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic and the imposition of mobility restrictions. We … service for internal medicine consultations. The demand for telemedicine remains high even after mobility restrictions were …
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