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Insurance Expansion During Pregnancy. 孕期保险扩展。

IF 2 3区医学

Health economics Pub Date : 2025-05-26 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4978

Philip Hochuli, Christian P R Schmid

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The Effects of Medical and Recreational Cannabis Laws on Prescription Drug Claims in Commercial Group Insurance Markets. 医疗和娱乐大麻法律对商业团体保险市场处方药索赔的影响。

IF 2 3区医学

Health economics Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4967

Amanda C Cook, E Tice Sirmans, Rhet A Smith

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Clear Waters, Bright Futures: Do Low-Cost Information Interventions Increase Health Preventive Behaviors. 清澈的水，光明的未来：低成本的信息干预能促进健康预防行为吗？

IF 2 3区医学

Health economics Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4977

Rafi Amir-Ud-Din, Muhammad Khan, Zahra Murad, Irene Mussio

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Medicaid Coverage of Psychological Treatment Prevents Crime. 心理治疗的医疗补助可以预防犯罪。

IF 2 3区医学

Health economics Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4976

Thomas A Hegland

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Public Long-Term Care Insurance and Retirement Intentions of Urban Workers: Evidence From China. 公共长期护理保险与城镇职工退休意愿：来自中国的证据。

IF 2 3区医学

Health economics Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4973

Tianli Yang, Zhong Zhao

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Children's Education and Parental Healthcare Utilization: The Roles of Knowledge Transfer and Financial Support. 儿童教育与父母医疗保健利用：知识转移和财政支持的作用。

IF 2 3区医学

Health economics Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4975

Lei Lei, Lingyan Hu, Arthur van Soest, Yi Zhang

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The Rise in American Pain: The Importance of the Great Recession. 美国人痛苦的增加：大衰退的重要性。

IF 2 3区医学

Health economics Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4971

Sneha Lamba, Robert Moffitt

{"title":"The Rise in American Pain: The Importance of the Great Recession.","authors":"Sneha Lamba, Robert Moffitt","doi":"10.1002/hec.4971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4971","url":null,"abstract":"A significant literature has documented trend increases in pain among Americans over the last 2 or 3 decades. There is no consensus on the reason for the trend, with no single explanation seeming to work well. We show that, rather than resulting from a smooth upward trend, the increase was almost entirely concentrated in the 2007-2010 period, the time of the Great Recession, a result not uncovered in prior work. The disproportionate increase in pain among the less educated is also shown to have occurred primarily at the time of the Recession, with either little or no trend before or after. The Recession jump occurred only at older ages and primarily only at the points during each cohort's lifetime when they experienced the Recession. However, we too find the jump difficult to explain, for while there is necessarily a temporary decline in employment during a Recession, why there should be a permanent increase in pain as a result is unclear. We assess a number of explanations, related to family structure and the deterioration of family life, as well as possible biopsychosocial channels. While we find some speculative hypotheses to have potential explanatory power, we conclude that the rise in pain continues to be mysterious and deserves further research in light of our new findings.","PeriodicalId":12847,"journal":{"name":"Health economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143967760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Home-Based Care Outcomes: Does the Care Provider Matter? 以家庭为基础的护理结果：护理提供者重要吗？

IF 2 3区医学

Health economics Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4972

Norma B Coe, Chuxuan Sun, Courtney H Van Houtven, Anirban Basu, R Tamara Konetzka

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Do Gun-Purchase Waiting Periods Save Lives? 枪支购买等待期能拯救生命吗？

IF 2 3区医学

Health economics Pub Date : 2025-04-20 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4970

Grace E Arnold, Mitchell Blaine Priestley

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Inequality Measurement for Bounded Variables. 有界变量不等式的度量。

IF 2 3区医学

Health economics Pub Date : 2025-04-19 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4969

Inaki Permanyer, Suman Seth, Gaston Yalonetzky

{"title":"Inequality Measurement for Bounded Variables.","authors":"Inaki Permanyer, Suman Seth, Gaston Yalonetzky","doi":"10.1002/hec.4969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4969","url":null,"abstract":"Many health indicators are bounded, that is, their values lie between a lower and an upper bound. Inequality measurement with bounded variables faces two normative challenges well-known in the health inequality literature. One is that inequality rankings may or may not be consistent across admissible attainment and shortfall representations of the variable. The other is that the set of maximum-inequality distributions for bounded variables is different from the respective set for variables with no upper bound. Therefore, the ethical criteria for ranking maximum-inequality distributions with unbounded variables may not be appropriate for bounded variables. In a novel proposal, we justify an axiom requiring maximum-inequality distributions of bounded variables to be ranked equally, irrespective of their means. Then, our axiomatic characterization naturally leads to indices that measure inequality as an increasing function of the observed proportion of maximum attainable inequality for a given mean. Additionally, our inequality indices rank distributions consistently when switching between attainment and shortfall representations. In our empirical illustration with three health indicators, a starkly different picture of cross-country inter-temporal inequality emerges when traditional inequality indices give way to our proposed normalized inequality indices.","PeriodicalId":12847,"journal":{"name":"Health economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143997768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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