Showing papers in "Journal of Health Economics in 2000"

TL;DR: There is little or no evidence of significant inequity in the delivery of health care overall, though in half of the countries, significant pro-rich inequity emerges for physician contacts and in countries with very diverse characteristics regarding access and provider incentives.

TL;DR: The primary conclusion of this research is that a comprehensive set of tobacco advertising bans can reduce tobacco consumption and that a limited set of advertising bans will have little or no effect.

TL;DR: It is found that the scale of reference of the subjective health measure changes with age, which lowers most of the QALY weights for health problems and disabilities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether parental leave improves the health of infants and young children in 16 European countries over the 1969 through 1994 period, and found that parental leave may be a cost-effective method of bettering child health.

TL;DR: Bilateral drug price and quantity indexes, based on comprehensive data for seven countries, refute the conventional wisdom that US drug prices are much higher than elsewhere, for Laspeyres (US-weighted) indexes.

TL;DR: Examination of stationarity and cointegration of health expenditure and GDP, for a sample of 21 OECD countries using data for the period 1960-1997, by applying a test battery that allows robust inference to be made, indicates that both health spending and GDP are non-stationary.

TL;DR: Health care is neither "a necessity" or "a luxury"; it is "both" since the income elasticity varies with the level of analysis as mentioned in this paper. But the debate over whether health care is or is not a luxury good arises primarily from the failure to specify levels of analysis clearly so as to distinguish variation within groups from variation between groups.

TL;DR: The quality of hospital care before and after mergers and acquisitions in California between 1992 and 1995 is compared and inpatient mortality, 90-day readmission for heart attack patients, and discharge within 48 h for normal newborn babies is analyzed.

TL;DR: The results indicate a difference between users of private care and other care, and the importance of past use as a predictor of current use, but they also show considerable movement between the public and private sectors, indicating a complex relationship in public andPrivate sector use.

TL;DR: Deriving a model, where each family member is the producer of his own and other family members' health, shows that the family will not try to equalise marginal benefits and marginal costs of health capital for each family members.

TL;DR: Evidence of both substantial wage and participation rate differences between able-bodied and disabled men are found, which have implications for the operation of the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act.

TL;DR: The empirical evidence confirms most of the hypotheses derived from the model, i.e., HCE increases with closeness to death, for retired individuals, HCE decreases with age, and low-income individuals, as compared to high- income individuals, incur lower HCE in the last months of life.

TL;DR: Patients having to pay large sums out-of-pocket are less likely to have trade-name versions prescribed than patients getting most of their costs reimbursed, indicating moral hazard.

TL;DR: It is indicated that embedding the practical operationalization of CEA in welfare economics seems impossible and in a strict welfarist approach it is necessary to view QALYs as being utilities, although one may question whether such an approach to QALys is appropriate.

TL;DR: Results indicate that increases in the beer tax may decrease the incidence of violence committed by females but not by males.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors characterize rationing as a "shadow price" on access to various areas of care and show how the profit maximizing shadow price depends on the dispersion in health costs, individuals' forecasts of their health costs and the correlation between use in different illness categories, and the risk adjustment system used for payment.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that access to post-retirement health insurance has a large effect on retirement, and that in retirement models, when retiree health benefits are controlled for, the effects of pension coverage are reduced, suggesting that these effects may have been overestimated in the prior literature.

TL;DR: It is found that 23% of the movement from private coverage to Medicaid due to the expansions was attributable to displacement, and there is no evidence of displacement among those starting uninsured, leading to an overall displacement effect of 4%.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated how option-pricing techniques can be applied to the decision rules for economic evaluation in health care and the relative significance of each of these for a particular economic evaluation will depend on the particular characteristics of the technology under consideration.

TL;DR: This article examined whether the decline in the availability of employer-provided health insurance is a phenomenon common to all jobs or is concentrated only on certain jobs and found that declines in own-employer insurance coverage over the 1988-1997 period are driven primarily by declines in take-up for long-term full-time workers and declines in eligibility for new and parttime workers.

TL;DR: There is compelling evidence to suggest that drug use, particularly the use of opiates, cocaine and crack cocaine, is associated with an increased risk of unemployment, regardless of age or gender.

TL;DR: The authors discusses health economics as a behavioral science and as input into health policy and health services research, and illustrates the dual role with data on publications and citations of two leading health economics journals and three leading American health economists.

TL;DR: This work uses a large data set from Sweden with over 40,000 individuals followed up for 10-16 years, to estimate the survival and quality-adjusted survival in different income groups, and discovers inequalities in health favouring the higher income groups.

TL;DR: The conclusions from a profile analysis to identify performance extremes can be affected substantially by the standards and statistical methods used and by the adequacy of risk adjustment.

TL;DR: This paper derives the variance for three estimates--the conditional mean of y, the slope ofY, and the average slope of y--on the retransformed scale and proposes procedures with skewed health expenditure data from a sample of Medicaid eligible patients with severe mental illness.

TL;DR: A model is developed to show how the employee contribution required by a given firm depends on characteristics of the firm and its work force, and empirical support is found for many of the model's predictions.

TL;DR: The logic for identifying the much larger market failures attributable to the failure of smokers to fully internalize the costs of their addictive behavior is developed and focused on teen addiction as a form of "intrapersonal" externality.

TL;DR: There is some evidence of an effect on the probability that a firm offers family coverage, and on the percentage of full-time workers accepting employer-sponsored coverage offered to them, in the wake of the Medicaid expansions.

TL;DR: It is shown that sufficiently adjusted subsidies eliminate the need for premium rate restrictions and consequently avoid their adverse effects, and the subsidy approach is the preferred strategy to increase access to coverage for high-risk individuals.

TL;DR: In this article, a stochastic, life-cycle framework under alternative insurance options is proposed to model the demand for self-protection for individuals' efforts to self-protect against mortality and morbidity risks.