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Primary care payment models and avoidable hospitalizations in Ontario, Canada: A multivalued treatment effects analysis 加拿大安大略省的初级医疗支付模式与可避免的住院治疗:多值治疗效果分析。
IF 2 3区 医学
Health economics Pub Date : 2024-06-19 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4872
Nibene Habib Somé, Rose Anne Devlin, Nirav Mehta, Sisira Sarma
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Assessing the quality of public services: For-profits, chains, and concentration in the hospital market 评估公共服务的质量:医院市场中的营利、连锁和集中。
IF 2 3区 医学
Health economics Pub Date : 2024-06-17 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4861
Johannes S. Kunz, Carol Propper, Kevin E. Staub, Rainer Winkelmann
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The effects of an unconditional cash transfer on parents' mental health in the United States 美国无条件现金转移对父母心理健康的影响。
IF 2 3区 医学
Health economics Pub Date : 2024-06-15 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4867
Clemente Pignatti, Zachary Parolin
{"title":"The effects of an unconditional cash transfer on parents' mental health in the United States","authors":"Clemente Pignatti,&nbsp;Zachary Parolin","doi":"10.1002/hec.4867","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hec.4867","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The provision of unconditional cash transfers may be one effective policy strategy for improving mental health, but causal evidence on their efficacy is rare in high-income countries. This study investigates the mental health consequences of the 2021 child tax credit (CTC) expansion, which temporarily provided unconditional and monthly cash support to most families with children in the United States. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we exploit differences in CTC benefit levels for households with younger versus older children. More generous CTC transfers are associated with a decrease in the number of bad mental health days reported by the parents. The effect materializes after the third monthly payment and disappears when the benefits are withdrawn. The CTC's improvement of mental health is larger for more credit-constrained individuals, including low-income households, women, and younger respondents.</p>","PeriodicalId":12847,"journal":{"name":"Health economics","volume":"33 10","pages":"2253-2287"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hec.4867","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141327430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The effect of social media use on mental health of college students during the pandemic 大流行病期间社交媒体的使用对大学生心理健康的影响。
IF 2 3区 医学
Health economics Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4871
Jane Cooley Fruehwirth, Alex Xingbang Weng, Krista M. Perreira
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Business cycles and healthcare employment 商业周期与医疗保健就业。
IF 2 3区 医学
Health economics Pub Date : 2024-06-11 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4866
Erkmen G. Aslim, Shin-Yi Chou, Kuhelika De
{"title":"Business cycles and healthcare employment","authors":"Erkmen G. Aslim,&nbsp;Shin-Yi Chou,&nbsp;Kuhelika De","doi":"10.1002/hec.4866","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hec.4866","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Is healthcare employment recession-proof? We examine the long-standing hypothesis that healthcare employment is stable across the business cycle. We explicitly distinguish between negative aggregate demand and supply shocks in studying how healthcare employment responds to recessions, and show that this response depends largely on the type of the exogenous shock triggering the recession. First, aggregate healthcare employment responds procyclically during demand-induced recessions but remains stable during supply-induced recessions. Second, healthcare utilization drops significantly during demand-induced recessions, explaining the decline in healthcare employment during these periods. Finally, there is significant heterogeneity in the employment responses of the healthcare sub-sectors. While healthcare employment in most sub-sectors responds procyclically during recessions caused by both negative demand and supply shocks, it responds countercyclically in nursing-dominant sectors. Importantly, by isolating the recessionary impact of negative aggregate demand shocks from supply shocks on healthcare employment, we provide new empirical evidence that healthcare employment, in general, is <i>not</i> recession-proof.</p>","PeriodicalId":12847,"journal":{"name":"Health economics","volume":"33 9","pages":"2123-2161"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141305766","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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Local restrictions, population movement, and spillovers during the pandemic: Evidence from Japan's restaurant restriction 大流行病期间的地方限制、人口流动和溢出效应:来自日本餐馆限制的证据。
IF 2 3区 医学
Health economics Pub Date : 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4864
Zihan Xu, Satoru Shimokawa
{"title":"Local restrictions, population movement, and spillovers during the pandemic: Evidence from Japan's restaurant restriction","authors":"Zihan Xu,&nbsp;Satoru Shimokawa","doi":"10.1002/hec.4864","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hec.4864","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We investigate how a local restaurant restriction aimed at containing the COVID-19 pandemic influenced population movement and COVID-19 prevalence within and outside the restricted districts. Using data on restaurant location and hourly population at the 500-m-mesh level and on COVID-19 prevalence at both prefecture and municipality level in Japan, we employ a triple-difference approach and a difference-in-differences approach with fixed effects. While the policy decreased population movement to restaurant areas in the restricted districts, it caused spillovers of increasing population movement to restaurant areas in the neighboring nonrestricted districts. Consequently, COVID-19 prevalence worsened in the neighboring nonrestricted districts but improved in the restricted districts. Our findings suggest that imposing such local restrictions in the context of the pandemic may contain the pandemic only in the restricted districts while sacrificing economic activities within these districts and public health in neighboring nonrestricted districts.</p>","PeriodicalId":12847,"journal":{"name":"Health economics","volume":"33 9","pages":"2105-2122"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141300556","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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Drinking in despair: Unintended consequences of automation in China 在绝望中饮酒:中国自动化的意外后果。
IF 2 3区 医学
Health economics Pub Date : 2024-06-08 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4865
Wenyi Lu, Siyuan Fan
{"title":"Drinking in despair: Unintended consequences of automation in China","authors":"Wenyi Lu,&nbsp;Siyuan Fan","doi":"10.1002/hec.4865","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hec.4865","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The side effects of technological progress on the economy have been discussed frequently, but little is known regarding its health consequences. By combining the national individual-level panel data of alcohol drinking with the prefecture-level robot exposure rate in China, we find that one more robot exposure rate could induce up to 2.2% points increase in the probability of problem drinking. Such a pattern of problem drinking is explained by negative emotions, which can be ascribed to job loss due to substitution, higher income vulnerability, and reduced organization participation. Further, we provide evidence that automation can incur health costs, particularly for easily substituted workers, which would exacerbate health inequality in China. This paper sheds light on the impact of automation and the social incentives of problem drinking, emphasizing the possibly heterogeneous health cost accompanied by the automation process.</p>","PeriodicalId":12847,"journal":{"name":"Health economics","volume":"33 9","pages":"2088-2104"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141293338","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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Public health economics: Should it be more offensive? 公共卫生经济学:它是否应该更具攻击性?
IF 2 3区 医学
Health economics Pub Date : 2024-06-04 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4868
Richard Smith
{"title":"Public health economics: Should it be more offensive?","authors":"Richard Smith","doi":"10.1002/hec.4868","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hec.4868","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;“&lt;i&gt;The soft drinks tax can be expected to result in more than 4000 job losses across the UK&lt;/i&gt;” [ (Oxford Economics, &lt;span&gt;2016&lt;/span&gt;, pg 3). As public health moves further away from government provided or regulated activities, such as clean water, traffic safety and vaccination, and into policies directly impacting goods and services provided by commercial actors, statements such as these are becoming increasingly commonplace for those seeking to develop, implement and evaluate public health interventions. As commercial actors have a history of marshalling economics to go on the “offensive” in opposing policies, the question arises of whether, and if so how and when, health economics should similarly be mobilised?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Public health is increasingly involved in policies and interventions that impact on commercial entities, generating a substantial literature and concern around the behavior of these actors (https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/commercial-determinants-of-health). This literature relates to the products or services that these commercial actors provide and the marketing and sales practices they engage in, of course, but also their use of, and response to, research and evidence related to policies that may negatively impact their activities. The tactics used by the tobacco industry to influence and negate public health campaigns to reduce smoking has long been subject to research (Saloojee &amp; Dagli, &lt;span&gt;2000&lt;/span&gt;). These tactics have been similarly observed and examined with respect to alcohol (Hawkins et al., &lt;span&gt;2012&lt;/span&gt;). Most recently, with the emphasis for public health moving on to obesity and unhealthy diets, we have seen concern that the commercial food and beverage sector is operating in a similar manner (Brownell &amp; Warner, &lt;span&gt;2009&lt;/span&gt;). The commercial sector is clearly very willing, and very able, to mobilise economics for “offensive” means to try and sink public health policies that may impact commercial activities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Health economics, as an academic research discipline, takes what may be seen as a more objective approach to its role. Put simply, health economics typically seeks to establish the costs and benefits of the policy or intervention that it is engaged to evaluate. The problem, generally, with this approach is that it does not explicitly consider the key elements that the commercial sector is concerned with, and which commercial actors then use in an “economic offensive”. Many public health interventions concerned with diet, for example, have very little direct impact on the health sector; impacts that do occur tend to be positive, as reductions in the consumption of alcohol, soft drinks or unhealthy foods will not place a financial demand on health systems, and any health benefits will reduce demand for services. Similarly, such interventions often have very little direct impact on government; tax receipts from VAT may fall due to reduced product purchasing (though typ","PeriodicalId":12847,"journal":{"name":"Health economics","volume":"33 10","pages":"2203-2205"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hec.4868","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141260328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Is anchoring at ‘dead’ a theoretical requirement for health state valuation? 锚定 "死亡 "是健康状态估值的理论要求吗?
IF 2 3区 医学
Health economics Pub Date : 2024-06-03 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4863
Chris Sampson, David Parkin, Nancy Devlin
{"title":"Is anchoring at ‘dead’ a theoretical requirement for health state valuation?","authors":"Chris Sampson,&nbsp;David Parkin,&nbsp;Nancy Devlin","doi":"10.1002/hec.4863","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hec.4863","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Values that accompany generic health measures are typically anchored at 1 = full health and 0 = dead. Some health states may then be considered ‘worse than dead’ (WTD) and assigned negative values, which causes fundamental measurement problems. In this paper, we challenge the assumption that anchoring values at ‘dead = 0’ is necessary for quality-adjusted life year (QALY) estimation. We summarise the role of ‘dead’ in health state valuation and consider three critical questions: (i) whether the measurement properties of health state values require ‘dead’; (ii) whether ‘dead’ needs to be valued relative to health states; and (iii) whether values for states WTD are meaningful or useful. We conclude that anchoring 0 at dead is not a requirement of health status measurement or cost-effectiveness analysis. This results from reframing QALYs as the relevant unit of measurement and reframing values as being derived from QALYs rather than the reverse.</p>","PeriodicalId":12847,"journal":{"name":"Health economics","volume":"33 9","pages":"1929-1935"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hec.4863","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141237399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Training labor and treatment behavior: Evidence from physician residency programs 培训劳动与治疗行为:来自住院医师培训项目的证据。
IF 2 3区 医学
Health economics Pub Date : 2024-06-02 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4841
Brendan Rabideau, Michael R. Richards, Christopher M. Whaley
{"title":"Training labor and treatment behavior: Evidence from physician residency programs","authors":"Brendan Rabideau,&nbsp;Michael R. Richards,&nbsp;Christopher M. Whaley","doi":"10.1002/hec.4841","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hec.4841","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Public and private investments in physician human capital support a healthcare workforce to provide future medical services nationwide. Yet, little is known about how introducing training labor influences hospitals' provision of care. We leverage all-payer data and emergency medicine (EM) and obstetrics (OBGYN) residency program debuts to estimate local access and treatment intensity effects. We find that the introduction of EM programs coincides with less treatment intensity and suggestive increases in throughput. OBGYN programs adopt the pre-existing surgical tendencies of the hospital but may also relax some capacity constraints—allowing the marginal mother to avoid a riskier nearby hospital.</p>","PeriodicalId":12847,"journal":{"name":"Health economics","volume":"33 9","pages":"2059-2087"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141199741","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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