International Journal of Health Economics and Management最新文献

Equity and efficiency effects of flat premiums.

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International Journal of Health Economics and Management Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1007/s10754-024-09388-x

Cristian Pardo, Jorge Sabat

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Estimating price elasticities of demand for pain relief drugs: evidence from Medicare Part D. 估计止痛药物需求的价格弹性：来自医疗保险 D 部分的证据。

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International Journal of Health Economics and Management Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10754-024-09382-3

Aparna Soni

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Internet use, dietary habits and adolescent obesity: evidence from China. 互联网使用、饮食习惯与青少年肥胖：来自中国的证据。

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International Journal of Health Economics and Management Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-16 DOI: 10.1007/s10754-024-09386-z

Ke Ning, Zheyi Zhu, Zhigang Xu, Haiyan Liu, Mengting Lu

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Can health financing programmes reduce food insecurity in a developing country? 卫生筹资方案能否减轻发展中国家的粮食不安全状况？

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International Journal of Health Economics and Management Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-03 DOI: 10.1007/s10754-024-09380-5

Raymond Elikplim Kofinti, Isaac Koomson, Josephine Baako-Amponsah

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The pharmaceutical distributors' efficiency in Italy: an assessment of the impact of the 2010 reimbursable drug pricing reform. 意大利药品分销商的效率：2010 年有偿药品定价改革的影响评估。

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International Journal of Health Economics and Management Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI: 10.1007/s10754-024-09387-y

Giorgio Matteucci, Daniele De Santis

{"title":"The pharmaceutical distributors' efficiency in Italy: an assessment of the impact of the 2010 reimbursable drug pricing reform.","authors":"Giorgio Matteucci, Daniele De Santis","doi":"10.1007/s10754-024-09387-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-024-09387-y","url":null,"abstract":"To assess the impact on pharmaceutical wholesalers' financial viability and efficiency of the reform of the wholesalers' and pharmacies' margins on reimbursable drugs enacted in 2010 that halved the distributors' margins. We perform a stochastic frontier analysis on a large original dataset comprising financial and production data from 2009, a year prior to the reform, to 2019 gathered in order to assess the impact of the reform on firms' profitability and efficiency. The implemented policies have not been successful in fostering the development of a more efficient market that would ultimately benefit social welfare. Overall, our findings indicate that bigger firms lag behind their smaller counterparts in terms of efficiency, even in the long run. Our findings also suggest that an efficient pharmaceutical wholesaler is currently unable to generate normal profit from the distribution of reimbursable drugs. Compared to the other European countries, that seem to have a cost oriented approach, Italy provides one of the lowest margins to pharmaceutical wholesalers without properly considering the costs of the drugs' distribution. A new regulatory approach to wholesaling margins is needed in order to improve efficiency and welfare.","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142606689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Feeling discriminated means poor self-perceived health: a gender analysis using SHARE. 感觉受歧视意味着自我感觉健康不佳：利用 SHARE 进行的性别分析。

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International Journal of Health Economics and Management Pub Date : 2024-09-26 DOI: 10.1007/s10754-024-09383-2

Sara Pinillos-Franco, David Cantarero-Prieto, Javier Lera

{"title":"Feeling discriminated means poor self-perceived health: a gender analysis using SHARE.","authors":"Sara Pinillos-Franco, David Cantarero-Prieto, Javier Lera","doi":"10.1007/s10754-024-09383-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-024-09383-2","url":null,"abstract":"Most part of the literature has highlighted the detrimental effects of discrimination on health. However, the influence of past and perceived discrimination on older workers' self-assessed health has been understudied. Firstly, we aim at studying whether reported discrimination is associated with self-assessed health among adults of working ages (50-65 years of age). Secondly, we analyze the existence of differences by gender. Data was retrieved from the seventh wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to obtain the regular panel of questions, and the third and seventh waves of the SHARELIFE questionnaire, that includes information about discrimination (n = 30,019). We develop logistic regression models to determine the relationship of discrimination on male and female workers' self-assessed health separately. Our results show that 49.0% of our sample was composed of highly discriminated women, while the remaining percentage covered men and women (42.3% males and 8.7% females) that reported lower levels of discrimination. Our estimations reveal a significant association between discrimination and poor health status, especially in the case of men ranging from OR = 1.802 (95% CI 1.502-2.163) to OR = 1.565 (95% CI 1.282-1.910). In the case of women our results range from OR = 1.728 (95% CI 1.463-2.040) to OR = 1.196 (95% CI 0.992-1.442). These findings are essential to highlight the importance of tackling discrimination as a determinant of health that negatively affects both sexes, men and women.","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142356047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Vaccination strategies for different contact patterns: weighing epidemiological against economic outcomes. 针对不同接触模式的疫苗接种策略：权衡流行病学和经济结果。

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International Journal of Health Economics and Management Pub Date : 2024-09-24 DOI: 10.1007/s10754-024-09384-1

Rikard Forslid, Mathias Herzing

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The effect of health facility ownership on perceived healthcare quality: evidence from Ghana 医疗设施所有权对医疗质量感知的影响：来自加纳的证据

IF 2.4 4区经济学

International Journal of Health Economics and Management Pub Date : 2024-09-16 DOI: 10.1007/s10754-024-09385-0

Alex Bawuah, Simon Appleton, Yang Li

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Analyzing the 20-year declining trend of hospital length-of-stay in European countries with different healthcare systems and reimbursement models. 分析不同医疗体系和报销模式的欧洲国家 20 年来住院时间的下降趋势。

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International Journal of Health Economics and Management Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10754-024-09369-0

Davide Golinelli, Francesco Sanmarchi, Fabrizio Toscano, Andrea Bucci, Nicola Nante

{"title":"Analyzing the 20-year declining trend of hospital length-of-stay in European countries with different healthcare systems and reimbursement models.","authors":"Davide Golinelli, Francesco Sanmarchi, Fabrizio Toscano, Andrea Bucci, Nicola Nante","doi":"10.1007/s10754-024-09369-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10754-024-09369-0","url":null,"abstract":"The study aims to investigate the last 20-year (2000-2019) of hospital length of stay (LOS) trends and their association with different healthcare systems (HS) among 25 European countries. A panel dataset was created using secondary data from Eurostat and Global Burden of Disease study databases, with dependent and control variables aggregated at the national level over a period of 20 years. A time trend analysis was conducted using a weighted least squares model for panel data to investigate the association between LOS, HS models [National Health Service (NHS), National Health Insurance, Social Health Insurance (SHI), and Etatist Social Health Insurance], healthcare reimbursement schemes [Prospective Global Budget (PGB), Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG), and Procedure Service Payment (PSP)], and control variables. The study showed a reduction of average LOS from 9.20 days in 2000 to 7.24 in 2019. SHI was associated with a lower LOS compared to NHS (b = - 0.6327, p < 0.05). Both DRG (b = 1.2399, p < 0.05) and PSP (b = 1.1677, p < 0.05) reimbursement models were positively associated with LOS compared to PGB. Our results confirmed the downward trend of LOS in the last 20 years, its multifactorial nature, and the influence of the SHI model of HS. This could be due to the financial incentives present in fee-for-service payment models and the role of competition in creating a market for healthcare services. These results offer insight into the factors influencing healthcare utilization and can inform the design of more effective, efficient, and sustainable HS.","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":" ","pages":"375-392"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11457716/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140185873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Matching patients with therapists in culturally diverse rehabilitation services during civil unrest. 在内乱期间，为病人和治疗师匹配不同文化背景的康复服务。

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International Journal of Health Economics and Management Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2023-06-28 DOI: 10.1007/s10754-023-09359-8

Stuart B Kamenetsky, Vanessa Chen, Eyal Heled

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