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Where Next for Discrete Choice Health Valuation Exercises? 离散选择健康评估练习的下一步是什么?

Health Economics Evaluation Methods eJournal Pub Date : 2016-07-16 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2810444

T. Flynn

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引用次数: 1

Is Childcare Bad for the Mental Health of Grandparents? Evidence from Share 托儿对祖父母的心理健康有害吗?来自Share的证据

Health Economics Evaluation Methods eJournal Pub Date : 2016-07-07 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2803854

G. Brunello, L. Rocco

引用次数: 7

Time Series Analysis on the Prevalence of Global HIV Cases 全球HIV病例流行的时间序列分析

Health Economics Evaluation Methods eJournal Pub Date : 2016-05-21 DOI: 10.21016/icepss.2016.ap12wf159o

Maria Cristina S. Dela Cerna, Rolly G. Salvaleon

{"title":"Time Series Analysis on the Prevalence of Global HIV Cases","authors":"Maria Cristina S. Dela Cerna, Rolly G. Salvaleon","doi":"10.21016/icepss.2016.ap12wf159o","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21016/icepss.2016.ap12wf159o","url":null,"abstract":"Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) epidemic is a serious health and social problem, which impacts people worldwide. Over years, its progression has well-documented. This paper determines the incidence of HIV across globe on ages 15 to 49 from 1990 to 2012 and identifies the continents that HIV disease is mostly prevalent. Moreover, since its occurrence is inevitable, the paper projects the prevalence of global HIV cases in 2050. The percentage of people ages 15 to 49 who are infected with HIV is lifted from Catalog Sources World Development Indicators updated in 2012 as baseline data for time series analysis. Results reveal an abrupt increase of HIV infected from 108.4 million in 1990 which reaches its peak in 2001 with 308.1 million HIV-infected. However, it is found out that starting 2001, 52% decrease in new HIV infections from 308.1 million to 265.8 million in 2012 is observed. Nevertheless, this will increase dramatically in 2050 due to several factors like health disparities which include differences that occur by gender, race or ethnicity, education or income, disability, geographic location or sexual orientation. Furthermore, HIV epidemic is mostly prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa with 25 million cases that comprise 5% of the world total HIV victims.","PeriodicalId":396916,"journal":{"name":"Health Economics Evaluation Methods eJournal","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121597589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Cell Phones and the Risk of Brain Cancer Mortality: A Twenty-Five Year Cross-Country Analysis 手机和脑癌死亡风险:25年的跨国分析

Health Economics Evaluation Methods eJournal Pub Date : 2016-04-25 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2674296

Hugo M Mialon, Erik T. Nesson

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引用次数: 0

Entry Limiting Agreements for Pharmaceuticals: Pay-for-Delay and Authorized Generic Deals 药品准入限制协议:延迟付款和授权仿制药交易

Health Economics Evaluation Methods eJournal Pub Date : 2016-03-31 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2626508

Farasat A. S. Bokhari, Franco Mariuzzo, A. Polanski

引用次数: 3

Tailored Financial Incentives to Fight Medical Non-Persistence in Therapeutic Treatment: A Behavioral Economic Engineering Approach 量身定制的财政激励措施，以对抗治疗中的医疗非持续性:行为经济工程方法

Health Economics Evaluation Methods eJournal Pub Date : 2016-01-09 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2713058

Behnud Mir Djawadi, R. Fahr, F. Turk

{"title":"Tailored Financial Incentives to Fight Medical Non-Persistence in Therapeutic Treatment: A Behavioral Economic Engineering Approach","authors":"Behnud Mir Djawadi, R. Fahr, F. Turk","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2713058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2713058","url":null,"abstract":"The development and design of financial incentive schemes as a sustainable and cost-effective intervention strategy to foster effectiveness of medical interventions remains a significant challenge in health care delivery.Based on the findings of the conceptual model of medical non-persistence we test three different financial incentive schemes. These incentives are derived upon concepts of behavioral economics, in particular mental accounting, prospect theory and choice bracketing, and incorporated into deposit, copayment and bonus schemes. We conduct randomized laboratory experiments to evaluate the performance and effectiveness of each incentive scheme on persistence behavior under controlled conditions. Participants in the experiment are students remunerated according to their performance in the experiment.We find that financial incentive schemes based on the principles of prospect theory significantly improve treatment persistence compared to the situation where there are no incentives at all. This finding implies that the simple but smart re-allocation of co-payments and co-payment support between the treatment initiation phase and treatment maintenance phase represents an effective way of promoting persistence behavior.This study delivers first applications of behavioral interventions based on theoretical foundation. Using the method of experimental economics the study serves as a first proof of concept of a scalable way to design, calibrate and test the effectiveness of financial incentives on behavioral change. This approach is inevitable for broad application in real world as it minimizes the need for patient research while clarifying the impact of interventions under controlled conditions before these interventions get implemented in the field.","PeriodicalId":396916,"journal":{"name":"Health Economics Evaluation Methods eJournal","volume":"17 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131809580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Pharmacoeconomic Geometric Space Approach to Pharmacoeconomic Evaluation 药物经济学评价的几何空间方法

Health Economics Evaluation Methods eJournal Pub Date : 2016-01-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2944528

Mohd Azhar Abdul Karim, V. Gan

引用次数: 0

A Public Dilemma with Prescription Pill Abuse: Searching for a Solution to Fight the Epidemic and Treat the Addicted 处方药滥用的公众困境:寻找解决流行病和治疗成瘾的解决方案

Health Economics Evaluation Methods eJournal Pub Date : 2015-12-09 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2701510

Julie B. Miller

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Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Awareness of Diabetes Mellitus in Adults of a Slum Area of Mumbai, India: A Cross-Sectional Study 印度孟买贫民窟成人糖尿病知识、态度和意识评估:一项横断面研究

Health Economics Evaluation Methods eJournal Pub Date : 2015-12-07 DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.35133

Varshil Mehta

{"title":"Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Awareness of Diabetes Mellitus in Adults of a Slum Area of Mumbai, India: A Cross-Sectional Study","authors":"Varshil Mehta","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.35133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.35133","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Diabetes Mellitus is one of the diseases which can be considered as a slow poison. The World will have more than 300 million diabetics by 2025. India alone accounts for more than 50 million patients which is the highest in the world. Very limited studies have been conducted before, which assessed the aware- ness of diabetes mellitus in slum dwellers especially in Mumbai. The aim and objective of the study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and awareness in slum dwellers of Mumbai, India. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at a slum area of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. A well-structured questionnaire was distributed to 150 adults between 18 to 60 years. Data was collected and statistics were drawn with the help of SPSS 19. Results: In the present study, out of 150, 54.44 % were males (84) and 44 % were females (66). We observed that 71.33% of the slum dwellers have heard about diabetes. 35.33% consumes tobacco while 27.33% have alcohol every day. 20.66% are hypertensive and almost one fourth of them denied taking any medications. Approximately 60% knew the cause of diabetes. 72.33% did not know any signs & symptoms of diabetes. 35% and 40% did not have any knowledge regarding the methods used for investigations and complications of diabetes respectively. Conclusion: Overall, the present study showed that the aware- ness, attitude and knowledge was low in slum dwellers of Mumbai, India. In order to further prevent new cases and complications of diabetes, new schemes and policies of health awareness should be implemented at grass root level.","PeriodicalId":396916,"journal":{"name":"Health Economics Evaluation Methods eJournal","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128382936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Fairness in Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Application to Health Technology Assessment 成本效益分析中的公平性:在卫生技术评估中的应用

Health Economics Evaluation Methods eJournal Pub Date : 2015-11-10 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2691290

A. Samson, E. Schokkaert, Clémence Thébaut, B. Dormont, M. Fleurbaey, S. Luchini, C. Van de Voorde

引用次数: 1