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Public views on principles for health care priority setting: Findings of a European cross-country study using Q methodology
van Exel, Job; Baker, Rachel; Mason, Helen; Donaldson, Cam - In: Social Science & Medicine 126 (2015) C, pp. 128-137
Resources available to the health care sector are finite and typically insufficient to fulfil all the demands for health care in the population. Decisions must be made about which treatments to provide. Relatively little is known about the views of the general public regarding the principles...
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Metodologías para hallar QALYS. Una revisión de literatura
Acuña, Oscar Andrés Espinosa - UN - RCE - CID - 2012
economía de la salud, que se utilizan para calcular la unidad de medida llamada QALYs (Quality Adjusted Life Years). Está …
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Time to disable DALYs? On the use of DALYs in health policy.
Lyttkens, Carl Hampus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2001
Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) is a concept which has rapidly gained in popularity in health policy and considerable research resources are being allocated to the area. Proponents of DALYs suggest that the measure can be used both as a “GDP of health” and to help in setting...
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Accounting for the dead in the longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequalities
Petrie, Dennis; Allanson, Paul; Gerdtham, Ulf-G - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2011
This paper develops an accounting framework to consider the effect of deaths on the longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequalities. Ignoring deaths or using inverse probability weights to re-weight the sample for mortality-related attrition can produce misleading results....
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Role of private hospitals in Kerala: An Exploration
Dilip, T.R. - Centre for Development Studies (CDS) - 2008
This is an attempt to understand the characteristics of private hospitals and the equity in accessing their services …
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Forme di equità nella sfera di azione della tutela della salute
STERPI, Severino - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 114 (2006) 1-2, pp. 329-352
Equity and equality in health care and health are aims that pertain to a specific sphere of justice. Equity in health … recommendable aim even in case of equity of access, because of the biological, irreducible differences between individuals, and the … role of the individual utility functions. Public policies towards the best conceivables states of equity and approximate …
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Equity in access to MRI equipment: the Portuguese case
Maia, Maria João - Centro de Investigação em Inovação Empresarial e do … - 2013
Technology Assessment (TA). This paper aims to characterize the equity on access of the Portuguese population in general, to a …
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Premium subsidies and social insurance: Substitutes or complements?
Kifmann, Mathias; Roeder, Kerstin - Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE), … - 2011
Premium subsidies have been advocated as an alternative to social health insurance. These subsidies are paid if expenditure on health insurance exceeds a given share of income. In this paper, we examine whether this approach is superior to social insurance from a welfare perspective. We show...
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我国健康服务利用的机会不平等研究:基于CHNS2009 数据的实证分析
Ma, Chao; Gu, Hai; Han, Jianyu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Abstract: This paper expounds how to combining the research of equity in health economic and Roemer’s equality of …
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Estimating income equity in social health insurance system
Besstremyannaya, Galina - Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR), New … - 2012
TThe paper measures horizontal equity in health care access and utilization in Japan by estimating the coefficients for … horizontal equity in health care access and utilization in Japan, horizontal inequity remains in health insurance premiums and …
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