Estimating a cost ‐effectiveness threshold for the Spanish NHS
Abstract
The cost of generating a quality‐adjusted life year (QALY) within a National Health Service provides an approximation of the average opportunity cost of funding decisions. This information can be used to inform a cost‐effectiveness threshold. The aim of this paper is to estimate the cost per QALY at the Spanish National Health Service. We exploit variation across 17 regional health services and the exogenous changes in expenditure that took place as a consequence of the economic crisis over 5 years of data. We conduct fixed effect models and use an instrumental variable approach to test for potential remainin...
Source: Health Economics - November 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Laura Vallejo ‐Torres, Borja García‐Lorenzo, Pedro Serrano‐Aguilar Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
The eyes have it: Using eye tracking to inform information processing strategies in multi ‐attributes choices
Abstract
Although choice experiments (CEs) are widely applied in economics to study choice behaviour, understanding of how individuals process attribute information remains limited. We show how eye‐tracking methods can provide insight into how decisions are made. Participants completed a CE, while their eye movements were recorded. Results show that although the information presented guided participants' decisions, there were also several processing biases at work. Evidence was found of (a) top‐to‐bottom, (b) left‐to‐right, and (c) first‐to‐last order biases. Experimental factors—whether attributes are defi...
Source: Health Economics - November 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Mandy Ryan, Nicolas Krucien, Frouke Hermens Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
The impact of aid on health outcomes in Uganda
Abstract
The health sector has attracted significant foreign aid; however, evidence on the effectiveness of this support is mixed. This paper combines household panel data with geographically referenced subnational foreign aid data to investigate the contribution of health aid to health outcomes in Uganda. Using a difference‐in‐differences approach, we find that aid had a strong effect on reducing the productivity burden of disease indicated by days of productivity lost due to illness but was less effective in reducing disease prevalence. Consequently, health aid appeared to primarily quicken recovery times rather than...
Source: Health Economics - November 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Tonny Odokonyero, Robert Marty, Tony Muhumuza, Alex T. Ijjo, Godfrey Owot Moses Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
The effect of parental education on child health: Quasi ‐experimental evidence from a reduction in the length of primary schooling in Egypt
Abstract
This paper examines the impact of parental education on child health using a reduction in the length of primary schooling in Egypt. We use a fuzzy regression discontinuity design to compare the health outcomes of children whose parents were exposed to different schooling requirements because they were born either side of a threshold date. Using data from the Demographic and Health Survey (1992–2014), we find no effect of maternal education on child mortality or nutritional status. There is some evidence, although not entirely robust, that father's education reduces the likelihood of child stunting. We find, howe...
Source: Health Economics - November 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Fatma Romeh M. Ali, Mahmoud A. A. Elsayed Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
