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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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Hospital costs and social cost: A case study of newborn hearing screening
Herrero, Carmen; Moreno-Ternero, Juan D. - In: Investigaciones Economicas 29 (2005) 1, pp. 203-216
The economic evaluation of health care programs can be carried out from two different perspectives: the hospital’s narrow perspective and the social perspective, which includes all costs. It is well known that, depending on the perspective, the economic evaluation may lead to discrepant...
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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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Una modelización de los años de vida ajustados por la calidad como utilidades esperadas
Abellán, José M.; Pinto, José L. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1997
En el presente trabajo, los a\~nos de vida ajustados por la calidad (AVAC), son caracterizados como funciones de utilidad von Newman--Morgenstern. Esta caracterizaci\'on se efect\'ua para dos problemas de elecci\'on: la elecci\'on entre loter{\'\i}as definidas sobre estados de salud cr\'onicos y...
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Greece in Economic Crisis: The Case of Health and Education
Dassiou, Xeni - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 84 (2015) 3, pp. 145-164
social principles of equity in provision, equal opportunities for all, universal coverage, accessibility, and affordability …
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Griechenland in der Wirtschaftskrise: der Gesundheits- und Bildungssektor
Dassiou, Xeni - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 84 (2015) 4, pp. 59-79
social principles of equity in provision, equal opportunities for all, universal coverage, accessibility, and affordability …
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Ending Covid-19 Vaccine Apartheid through Vaccine Donations: The Influence of Supply Chains
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2023
We study determinants of COVID-19 vaccine donations from recipients' perspective, especially considering supply chain and institutional weakness (corruption) aspects. Results, based on data from more than 131 nations, show that strengthened supply chains reduced donations. The impacts of...
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On the design of equity-oriented pharmaceutical copayments
González, Paula - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 11 (2020) 2, pp. 179-202
claims to incorporate criteria of distributive justice into the design of copayments. We find that if the government … constrains patient rights to what is medically feasible, equity-based copayments vary from a percentage of the cost of the … patients, then copayments based on equity lead to a relation between copayments and clinical status that diverges from those …
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Premium subsidies and social insurance: Substitutes or complements?
Kifmann, Mathias; Roeder, Kerstin - 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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Justiça distributiva e equidade no transporte: Legado dos megaeventos e desigualdades de acesso a oportunidades no Rio de Janeiro
Pereira, Rafael H. M. - 2019
accessibility, equity and impact assessment of transport policies. First, the research proposes a theoretical framework for … Rio's population, particularly lower-income groups. Finally, this research shows how the equity and impact assessment of …
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