Author: Andrew M. Jones Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 9781788119795 Category : Medical economics Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This important collection gathers the most influential literature in the area of empirical health economics. Health economics provides empirical evidence to aid decision-making across a broad spectrum of issues in health and health care. This evidence is often derived from econometric methods. This title brings together landmark contributions to the development and application of these methods which span the field, ranging from structural models, models for health care costs and other microeconometric approaches, including bayesian methods, longitudinal data, applications to health technology assessment, along with field experiments and policy evaluation. Prefaced by an original introduction from the editor, this collection will be of interest to economic researchers and students as well as health scholar's wishing to explore the development of modern econometrics applied to health policy.
Author: Andrew M. Jones Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 9781788119795 Category : Medical economics Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This important collection gathers the most influential literature in the area of empirical health economics. Health economics provides empirical evidence to aid decision-making across a broad spectrum of issues in health and health care. This evidence is often derived from econometric methods. This title brings together landmark contributions to the development and application of these methods which span the field, ranging from structural models, models for health care costs and other microeconometric approaches, including bayesian methods, longitudinal data, applications to health technology assessment, along with field experiments and policy evaluation. Prefaced by an original introduction from the editor, this collection will be of interest to economic researchers and students as well as health scholar's wishing to explore the development of modern econometrics applied to health policy.
Author: Alice Sanwald Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 262
Book Description
In the thesis, we examine selected aspects of three important fields of health policy corresponding to the optimal production of health, health care services and to our understanding of health care financing. In the first part of the thesis, we perform a meta-analysis to provide new quantitative evidence on the relationship between characteristics of atypical employment contracts and various indicators of the individual health status. Summary findings of the applied random effects model reveal much higher risks of general/mental health complaints for atypical employees, a worse health-related behavior and a much stronger risk of going to work despite being ill. The heterogeneity of the effect sizes depends on country characteristics, health outcome indicators and methodological issues of the data gathering process. The second part of the thesis analyzes to what extend a broad set of socio-economic and socio-demographic covariates of private households influences the patterns of out-of-pocket health expenditures (OOPHE) in Austria. Overall, the two-part model shows that the probability and intensity level of OOPHE increase with the household size and the level of education, while household income and public insurances show mixed results on both stages. Additionally, a complementary relationship between the private health insurance and OOPHE is examined. In the last part, we analyze mortality effects, treatment and follow-up costs of patients with an acute myocardial infarction using administrative data from Austria. In an instrumental variable framework, we examine that the initial admission to catheterization hospitals increases patient's survival chance substantially and patients with previous cardiovascular diseases show the strongest mortality reduction in absolute terms. Taking in- and outpatient costs into account, the results suggest that an admission to catheterization hospitals is highly cost-effective.
Author: Michael Grossman Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231544529 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
A seminal work in health economics first published in 1972, Michael Grossman's The Demand for Health introduced a new theoretical model for determining the health status of the population. His work uniquely synthesized economic and public health knowledge and has catalyzed a vastly influential body of health economics literature. It is well past time to bring this important work back into print. Grossman bases his approach on Gary S. Becker's household production function model and his theory of investment in human capital. Consumers demand health, which can include illness-free days in a given year or life expectancy, and then produce it through the input of medical care services, diet, other market goods and services, and time. Grossman also treats health and knowledge as equal parts of the durable stock of human capital. Consumers therefore have an incentive to invest in health to increase their earnings in the future. From here, Grossman examines complementarities between health capital and other forms of human capital, the most important of which is knowledge capital earned through schooling and its effect on the efficiency of production. He concludes that the rate of return on investing in health by increasing education may exceed the rate of return on investing in health through greater medical care. Higher income may not lead to better health outcomes, as wealth enables the consumption of goods and services with adverse health effects. These are some of the major revelations of Grossman's model, findings that have great relevance as we struggle to understand the links between poverty, education, structural disadvantages, and health.
Author: Frank A. Sloan Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262035111 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 839
Book Description
The new edition of a textbook that combines economic concepts with empirical evidence, updated with material on the Affordable Care Act and other developments. This book introduces students to the growing research field of health economics. Rather than offer details about health systems without providing a theoretical context, Health Economics combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to enhance readers' economic understanding of how health care institutions and markets function. The theoretical and empirical approaches draw heavily on the general field of applied microeconomics, but the text moves from the individual and firm level to the market level to a macroeconomic view of the role of health and health care within the economy as a whole. The book takes a global perspective, with description and analysis of institutional features of health sectors in countries around the world. This second edition has been updated to include material on the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, material on the expansion of health insurance in Massachusetts, and an evaluation of Oregon's Medicaid expansion via lottery. The discussion of health care and health insurance in China has been substantially revised to reflect widespread changes there. Tables and figures have been updated with newly available data. Also new to this edition is a discussion of the health economics literature published between 2010 and 2015. The text includes readings, extensive references, review and discussion questions, and exercises. A student solutions manual offers solutions to selected exercises. Downloadable supplementary material is available for instructors.
Author: Andrew M. Jones
Author: Andrew M. Jones
Author: Alice Sanwald
Author: Florian Klohn
Author: Conference on the Economics of Health
Author: Michael Grossman
Author: Hendrik Jürges
Author: Sebastian Wichert
Author: Christian Bünnings
Author: Kai Eberhard Kruk
Author: Frank A. Sloan