Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,755
Cover Image
A "happiness test" for the new measures of national well-being: How much better than GDP are they?
Delhey, Jan; Kroll, Christian - 2012
Across the globe there is growing skepticism about the usefulness of GDP as a measure of national well-being. Consequently, several alternative quality-of-life (QOL) measures were developed which either aim at healing the GDP, complementing it, or replacing it. This chapter portrays some of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309614
Cover Image
Subjective measures of well-being
Veenhoven, Ruut - 2004
This paper deals with three questions: (1) What are ‘subjective’ measures? (2) What is ‘well-being’? and (3) Are subjective measures of well-being of use for policymaking, in particular in developing nations? The first question is answered by making a distinction between two kinds of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279097
Cover Image
Grenzen des Wettbewerbs im Gesundheitswesen
Kumpmann, Ingmar - 2008
neglect the competition between health care providers for patients which is crucial for medical quality. This third field of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269923
Cover Image
Beidseitige Informationsasymmetrien in der Arzt-Patient-Beziehung: Implikationen für die GKV
Schneider, Udo - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 71 (2002) 4, pp. 447-458
Patienten. Die Interdependenzen zwischen diesen Handlungen bestimmen das resultierende Gleichgewicht. Die Einführung einer … Selbstbeteiligung für den Patienten führt zu einer verbesserten Compliance, das Niveau der medizinischen Leistung hängt von den … Patienten können in der Arzt-Patient-Beziehung vor allem Aufgaben wie Vertragsabschlüsse übernehmen, benötigen dazu jedoch mehr …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377601
Cover Image
The reproductive value in distributed optimal control models
Wrzaczek, Stefan; Kuhn, Michael; Prskawetz, Alexia; … - 2009
We show that in a large class of distributed optimal control models (DOCM), where population is described by a McKendrick type equation with an endogenous number of newborns, the reproductive value of Fisher shows up as part of the shadow price of the population. Depending on the objective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352558
Cover Image
Is it different for zeros? Discriminating between models for non-negative data with many zeros
Silva, J. M. C. Santos; Tenreyro, Silvana; Windmeijer, Frank - 2010
In many economic applications, the variate of interest is non-negative and its distribution is characterized by a mass-point at zero and a long right-tail. Many regression strategies have been proposed to deal with data of this type. Although there has been a long debate in the literature on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288388
Cover Image
Age-differentiated QALI Losses
van Praag, Bernard M.S.; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002
evaluation of health. Instead, we suggest a more natural cardinalization, which does not exclude non-linearities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324736
Cover Image
Age-Differentiated QALY Losses
van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2001
regarding the relationship between the latent variable ?health? and its evaluation into observable QALY?s. Second, we allow the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276959
Cover Image
Priorities and prospect theory
Happich, Michael - 2001
aufbauende, präferenz-basierte Methoden zur Evaluation von Gesundheitszuständen nicht so weit verbreitet, wie es denkbar wäre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300545
Cover Image
Errors in survey based quality evaluation variables in efficiency models of primary care physicians
Kittelsen, Sverre A. C.; Galtung Kjæserud, Guri; … - 2001
definition of quality of primary health care has many aspects, and it is inevitably also a question of the patients’ perception … of the services received. This paper uses variables derived from patient evaluation surveys as measures of the quality of … patient mix of each physician is controlled for by regressing the patient evaluation responses on the patient characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284238