Promoting vaccinations - an analysis of measures taken by German statutory health insurers [0.03%]
关于德国法定健康保险促进疫苗接种措施的分析
Kathrin Damm,Jana M Schubert,J-Matthias von der Schulenburg
Kathrin Damm
Introduction: Prophylactic vaccinations play a significant role in health care. As a relatively cost-effective preventive measure they can help to avert transmissible diseases and thus protect not only the vaccinated indi...
Mototsugu Fukushige,Noriko Ishikawa,Satoko Maekawa
Mototsugu Fukushige
We propose simple modifications for the Kakwani tax progressivity measure that make it suitable for evaluating access inequality for medical services. Our modification is to measure inequality using the ratio of the concentration index to t...
Sunday Azagba,Mesbah F Sharaf
Sunday Azagba
This paper examines the effect of job stress on two key health risk-behaviors: smoking and alcohol consumption, using data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey. Findings in the extant literature are inconclusive and are mainl...
Which patients do I treat? An experimental study with economists and physicians [0.03%]
治疗哪类患者？一项针对经济学家和医师的研究实验
Marlies Ahlert,Stefan Felder,Bodo Vogt
Marlies Ahlert
This experiment investigates decisions made by prospective economists and physicians in an allocation problem which can be framed either medically or neutrally. The potential recipients differ with respect to their minimum needs as well as ...
Mathias Kifmann,Florian Scheuer
Mathias Kifmann
We study the effects of 'balance billing', i.e., allowing physicians to charge a fee from patients in addition to the fee paid by Medicare. First, we show that on pure efficiency grounds the optimal Medicare fee under balance billing is zer...
Greetings from the editors [0.03%]
编辑来信
J-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg,Sebastian Braun
J-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg
Private hospital accreditation and inducement of care under the ghanaian national insurance scheme [0.03%]
加纳国民保险计划下的私立医院认证与医疗激励机制
Eugenia Amporfu
Eugenia Amporfu
The Ghanaian National Health Insurance Scheme pays providers according to the fee for service payment scheme, a method of payment that is likely to encourage inducement of care. The goal of this paper is to test for the presence of supplier...
Kevin C Bax,Kambiz Norozi,Ajay P Sharma et al.
Kevin C Bax et al.
Background: Electronic medical records (EMR) are considered the best solution to improved dissemination of health information for patients. The associated transcription caused a significant cost increase in an academic pe...
Ulrich Schmidt,Michael Stolpe
Ulrich Schmidt
Several experimental studies have observed substantial violations of transitivity for decisions between risky lotteries over monetary outcomes. The goal of our experiment is to test whether these violations also affect the evaluation of hea...
Matters arising: cost-utility and cost-effectiveness analysis of disease-modifying drugs of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: a systematic review [0.03%]
利弊权衡：关于复发缓解型多发性硬化症修正药物的成本效用和成本效益分析的系统评价
Background: In their interesting systematic review, Gallehzan et al. quoted our article Cost-utility analysis of teriflunomide in naïve vs. previously treated patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) i...