Paul B Ginsburg,Gail R Wilensky
Paul B Ginsburg
M Christopher Auld,Mahmood Zarrabi
M Christopher Auld
Tobacco taxes in Canada varied markedly across time and across regions in the early 1990s. We exploit this variation to estimate the long reach of prices faced in adolescence on smoking behavior roughly a decade later in early to mid-adulth...
Sex-selective Abortion Bans are Not Associated with Changes in Sex Ratios at Birth among Asian Populations in Illinois and Pennsylvania [0.03%]
亚裔人口中选择性别的堕胎禁令与出生性别比变化无关：伊利诺伊州和宾夕法尼亚州的案例研究
Arindam Nandi,Sital Kalantry,Brian Citro
Arindam Nandi
Legal prohibitions on sex-selective abortions are proliferating in the United States. Eight state legislatures have banned abortions sought on the basis of the sex of the fetus, 21 states have considered such laws since 2009, and a similar ...
Public-Private Partnership as a Path to Affordable Healthcare in Emerging Markets [0.03%]
新兴市场中公私合作模式推动医疗普惠之路
Jacquelyn W Chou,Darius N Lakdawalla,Jacqueline Vanderpuye-Orgle
Jacquelyn W Chou
The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) have experienced tremendous economic and health gains in recent decades. Two of the major health challenges faced by the BRICS and other low and middle income countries ar...
Retail Tobacco Display Bans [0.03%]
烟草柜台售烟禁令
Ian J Irvine,Van Hai Nguyen
Ian J Irvine
Bans on retail tobacco displays, of the type proposed by New York's Mayor Bloomberg in March 2013, have been operative in several economies since 2001. Despite an enormous number of studies in public health journals using attitudinal data, ...
The Effects of Smoking Cessation on Weight Gain: New Evidence Using Workplace Smoking Bans [0.03%]
workplace smoking禁烟令对戒烟引起的体重增加影响的新证据
Jason M Fletcher
Jason M Fletcher
Both tobacco use and obesity are among the most important and costly health challenges faced in developed countries. Unfortunately, they may be inversely linked. While policy interventions that have placed limits on tobacco use have increas...
Can Oral Nutritional Supplements Improve Medicare Patient Outcomes in the Hospital? [0.03%]
口服营养补充剂可以改善住院病人医疗报销效果吗？
Darius N Lakdawalla,Julia Thornton Snider,Daniella J Perlroth et al.
Darius N Lakdawalla et al.
We analyzed the effect of oral nutritional supplement (ONS) use on 30-day readmission rates, length of stay (LOS), and episode costs in hospitalized Medicare patients (≥65), and subsets of patients diagnosed with acute myocardial infarctio...
Patient Outcomes and Cost Effects of Medicaid Formulary Restrictions on Antidepressants [0.03%]
美国医疗补助计划抗抑郁药物目录限制的患者预后和成本效应
Seth A Seabury,Darius N Lakdawalla,Deborah Walter et al.
Seth A Seabury et al.
Many state Medicaid programs have implemented policies designed to reduce spending on prescription drugs by restricting access to branded products. For patients with major depressive disorder, formulary restrictions could severely limit acc...
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Using Evidence of Effectiveness in Terms of Progression Free Survival in Making Reimbursement Decisions on New Cancer Therapies [0.03%]
基于无进展生存率疗效证据进行新抗癌药物报销决定的成本效益分析
Warren Stevens,Tomas Philipson,Yanyu Wu et al.
Warren Stevens et al.
Payers increasingly require evidence of a statistically significant difference in overall survival (OS) for reimbursement of new cancer therapies. At the same time, it becomes increasingly costly to design clinical trials that measure OS en...