Showing papers in "Journal of Health Economics in 1993"

TL;DR: It is suggested that equality of health should be the dominant principle and that equity in health care should therefore entail distributing care in such a way as to get as close as is feasible to an equal distribution of health.

TL;DR: It is shown how fixed budgets or predetermined prices per effectiveness unit can be used as decision rules to maximise health effects and to determine which programmes to implement on the basis of incremental cost-effectiveness ratios.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of taxes, taxes, income, and anti-smoking regulations on the consumption of cigarettes in California were analyzed based on monthly time-series data for 1980 through 1990.

TL;DR: The results indicate that heavy drinking in high school reduces the average number of years of schooling completed following high school, and students who spend their high school years in states with relatively high taxes and minimum age are more likely to graduate from college.

TL;DR: It is argued that the basic theory of agency raises more questions than it provides answers when it is applied to the doctor-patient relationship and more research is needed into the nature of both the patient and the doctor's utility functions.

TL;DR: A measurement experiment regarding willingness to pay for antihypertensive therapy is reported, and a new type of binary willingness topay question is used, that allows for different degrees of certainty with respect to the responses.

TL;DR: The noncooperative character of resource allocation in a national health service may contribute to excessive waiting lists and the structure of budget allocation may prevent improvements from being achieved.

TL;DR: In this paper, Culyer and Wagstaff's (CW) and Buckingham's (B) arguments about the equivalence of HYEs and QALYs are refuted.

TL;DR: The discount rate to be applied in health care programmes should be based on the time preference rate for health, and this same rate should be applied to costs as well.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the claim that QALYs are liable to misrepresent consumer preferences and hence lead to decision-makers choosing options which are not those preferred by the public.

TL;DR: This short theoretical paper examines health care utilization by the poor in the context of Grossman's health capital model and demonstrates that uncertainty can reduce the attractiveness to the poor of health capital investments.

TL;DR: The Dutch heart transplantation programme was subjected to a prospective economic evaluation and costs and effects with or without such programme were estimated, and sensitivity analysis showed results to depend highly on long term incidence of costs and on quality of life after transplantation.

TL;DR: The impact on utilisation of differential public entitlements to free health services is analysed, using data for a large sample of Irish households to take differences in health status into account.

TL;DR: The HYE is shown to be conceptually flawed because of confusions between the measures of value and the things being valued, and the claimed superiority of the method over the Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY) is rejected.

TL;DR: Evidence is found suggesting that nursing home operators in some areas preferentially admit private patients, and waitlisting of Medicaid patients appears to be a problem mainly in counties in which a high proportion of potential nursing home patients are private and counties inWhich bed supply is low.

TL;DR: The paper analyzes and recommends a new fee policy, a form of payer 'fee discrimination' that can discriminate among patients on the basis of both price and quality.

TL;DR: Current penalties for drunk driving appear to be too lenient, implying that current levels of drunk driving are too high, and policies should be designed so that the penalties paid by drunk drivers equal the value of the increased risks drunk drivers impose on others.

TL;DR: It is concluded that bans on broadcast advertising for alcoholic beverages reduce total alcohol consumption, motor vehicle fatalities, and cirrhosis deaths and there is evidence of reverse causation.

TL;DR: This paper investigates the private/public mix in acute health care provision in the UK by using an interrelated shares model derived from a translog function combined with dynamic adjustment to obtain elasticities of demand for private and public care.

TL;DR: The method of using the consumer's willingness to pay for medical care to measure consumer surplus to stand by, and it is believed that measurement of consumer welfare should be based on the customer's valuation of the advice, not the advice itself.

TL;DR: Study of workplace policies relating to drug abuse treatment and testing in a labor market with asymmetric information about worker proclivities to abuse drugs and to incur costs of workplace accidents characterize the type and frequency of workers treated and tested in labor market equilibrium.

TL;DR: While there are several interesting possibilities for extending Saffer (1991), Young fails to provide any new insights and tries to extend his work with three new specifications that are flawed and conclude that advertising bans have no effect of alcohol abuse.

TL;DR: The analysis finds that the increase in rural interstate speed limits increased alcohol-related accidents and the magnitude of the effect was statistically significant, and the relaxed speed limit led to a significant redistribution of alcohol- related accidents away from higher speed environments and towards lower speed environments.

TL;DR: Three academics go on a fishing trip during Spring break and are stranded on a desert island, where their only chance of avoiding starvation is to find a way to open some cans of food that washed ashore.

TL;DR: A theory of optimal prices is developed using a relative value scale where there are fixed costs of medical practice, and prices should anticipate the behavior of physicians by setting profit margins highest for services least susceptible to demand creation.

TL;DR: The authors examined the determinants of interest rates on tax-exempt hospital bonds and highlighted the potential and actual roles of Federal and state policy in the determination of these rates. But they did not consider the impact of the shift to a Prospective Payment System under Medicare on the borrowing costs of some hospitals.