Socio ‐economic status and physicians' treatment decisions
Abstract
This paper studies the relationship between patients' socio‐economic status and general practitioners' (GPs') service provision by exploiting administrative patient‐level data with information on consultation length, medical tests, and fee payments for each visit in Norway over a 5‐year period (2008–2012). To reduce patient heterogeneity, we limit the sample to a given condition, diabetes type II, that is treated almost exclusively in primary care. We estimate GP fixed‐effect models and control for a wide set of patient characteristics. Our results show that, for each visit, patients with low education g...
Source: Health Economics - December 6, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Kurt R. Brekke, Tor Helge Holm ås, Karin Monstad, Odd Rune Straume Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Supply ‐side effects from public insurance expansions: Evidence from physician labor markets
Health Economics,Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 690-708, April 2018. (Source: Health Economics)
Source: Health Economics - December 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
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Health Economics, Ahead of Print. (Source: Health Economics)
Source: Health Economics - December 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
A framework for testing the equality between the health concentration curve and the 45 ‐degree line
Summary
The health concentration curve is the standard graphical tool to depict socioeconomic health inequality in the literature on health inequality. This paper shows that testing for the absence of socioeconomic health inequality is equivalent to testing if the conditional expectation of health on income is a constant function that is equal to average health status. In consequence, any test for parametric specification of a regression function can be used to test for the absence of socioeconomic health inequality (subject to regularity conditions). Furthermore, this paper illustrates how to test for this equality using ...
Source: Health Economics - December 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Mohamad A. Khaled, Paul Makdissi, Rami V. Tabri, Myra Yazbeck Tags: HEALTH ECONOMICS LETTER Source Type: research
Is “end of life” a special case? Connecting Q with survey methods to measure societal support for views on the value of life‐extending treatments
Abstract
Preference elicitation studies reporting societal views on the relative value of end‐of‐life treatments have produced equivocal results. This paper presents an alternative method, combining Q methodology and survey techniques (Q2S) to determine the distribution of 3 viewpoints on the relative value of end‐of‐life treatments identified in a previous, published, phase of this work. These were Viewpoint 1, “A population perspective: value for money, no special cases”; Viewpoint 2, “Life is precious: valuing life‐extension and patient choice”; and Viewpoint 3, “Valuing wider benefits and opportunit...
Source: Health Economics - December 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Helen Mason, Marissa Collins, Neil McHugh, Jon Godwin, Job Van Exel, Cam Donaldson, Rachel Baker Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Effects of health insurance coverage on risky behaviors
Abstract
Prior to implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, dependent health insurance coverage was typically available only for young adults under the age of 19. As of September 2010, the Affordable Care Act extended dependent health insurance coverage to include young adults up to the age of 26. I use the National Health Interview Survey for the sample period from 2011 to 2013 to analyze the causal relationship between the expansion of dependent coverage and risky behaviors including smoking and drinking as well as preventive care. I employ a regression discontinuity design to estimate the causal ...
Source: Health Economics - December 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Jungtaek Lee Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Do gender gaps in education and health affect economic growth? A cross ‐country study from 1975 to 2010
Abstract
We use system‐generalized method‐of‐moments to estimate the effect of gender‐specific human capital on economic growth in a cross‐country panel of 127 countries between 1975 and 2010. There are several benefits of using this methodology. First, a dynamic lagged dependent econometric model is suitable to address persistence in per capita output. Second, the generalized method‐of‐moments estimator uses dynamic properties of the data to generate appropriate instrumental variables to address joint endogeneity of the explanatory variables. Third, we allow the measurement error to include unobserved countr...
Source: Health Economics - December 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Bidisha Mandal, Raymond G. Batina, Wen Chen Tags: HEALTH ECONOMICS LETTER Source Type: research
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Health Economics, Ahead of Print. (Source: Health Economics)
Source: Health Economics - November 23, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Should I stay or should I go? Hospital emergency department waiting times and demand
Abstract
In the absence of the price mechanism, hospital emergency departments rely on waiting times, alongside prioritisation mechanisms, to restrain demand and clear the market. This paper estimates by how much the number of treatments demanded is reduced by a higher waiting time. I use variation in waiting times for low‐urgency patients caused by rare and resource‐intensive high‐urgency patients to estimate the relationship. I find that when waiting times are higher, more low‐urgency patients are deterred from treatment and leave the hospital during the waiting period without being treated. The waiting time elas...
Source: Health Economics - November 20, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Peter Sivey Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Promoting normal birth and reducing caesarean section rates: An evaluation of the Rapid Improvement Programme
Health Economics,Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 675-689, April 2018. (Source: Health Economics)
Source: Health Economics - November 8, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
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Health Economics, Ahead of Print. (Source: Health Economics)
Source: Health Economics - November 8, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
