{"title":"Does supplemental private health insurance incentivize household risky financial asset investment? Evidence from the China Household Financial Survey","authors":"Si Shi, Yawen Jiang","doi":"10.1007/s10754-022-09326-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-022-09326-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":"42 1","pages":"369 - 421"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76385887","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}
{"title":"The heterogeneous effects of the great recession on informal care to the elderly","authors":"Jesus M. Carro, Elizaveta Pronkina","doi":"10.1007/s10754-022-09325-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-022-09325-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":"96 1","pages":"355 - 367"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80205761","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}
{"title":"The impact of the repeal of the federal individual insurance mandate on uninsurance","authors":"Aparna Soni","doi":"10.1007/s10754-022-09324-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-022-09324-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":"79 1","pages":"423 - 441"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84074865","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}
{"title":"Willingness to give amid pandemics: a contingent valuation of anticipated nongovernmental immunization programs.","authors":"William F Vásquez, Jennifer M Trudeau","doi":"10.1007/s10754-021-09309-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10754-021-09309-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Given that altruism is crucial in assisting impoverished households to cope with health and economic crises, it is important to improve our understanding of how preferences and motives for giving differ during a pandemic. We implemented a web-based, contingent valuation survey to estimate Americans' willingness to give for nongovernmental immunization programs in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results indicate that the median person is willing to give a one-time donation of $26, or at least $13 when willingness-to-give estimates are corrected for uncertainty regarding future donations. We find that willingness to give is related to income, concern levels, vaccine usage, and sociodemographic characteristics. Our findings also shed light on purely and impurely altruistic motives underlying the willingness to fund immunization programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":"22 1","pages":"53-68"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8193599/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39085035","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}
Raúl Del Pozo-Rubio, Fernando Bermejo-Patón, Pablo Moya-Martínez
{"title":"Impact of implementation of the Dependency Act on the Spanish economy: an analysis after the 2008 financial crisis.","authors":"Raúl Del Pozo-Rubio, Fernando Bermejo-Patón, Pablo Moya-Martínez","doi":"10.1007/s10754-021-09310-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-021-09310-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of this paper is to assess the industry-wide impact of Long-Term Care (LTC) spending on the Spanish economy. LTC spending includes beneficiaries' copayment and the impact is quantified in terms of output, employment and value added. To this purpose, we use an input-output model of the Spanish economy that allows us to further describe how the value added generated is distributed throughout the economy according to the existing benefit-mix (in kind services, cash benefit for informal care and cash benefit for personal assistance). Additionally, the model provides results on how the return on LTC spending would improve by using only in-kind services instead of the benefit mix currently in place. The 2012 Spanish Input-Output Table at current prices was extracted from the WIOD Database's 2016 Release. Consumption data for dependent, employed, and unemployed households were collected from the Spanish Household Budget Survey for 2012. The findings reveal that the total annual costs are 7,205.43 million €, with total costs from in-kind services being almost 71% higher than total costs from cash benefits. Each million euros invested in in-kind services and CBPA would create 41.91 jobs (68.41% direct, 9.16% indirect and 22.43% induced). However, each million euros spent on cash benefits would result in 16.88 jobs overall (53.02% direct, 24.53% indirect and 22.45% induced). The total number of jobs is 151,353 at the aggregate level, being 46,840 depending on cash-benefits and 104,513 on in-kind services.</p>","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":"22 1","pages":"111-128"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8336904/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39277799","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}
{"title":"Opioid and non-opioid analgesic prescribing before and after the CDC's 2016 opioid guideline.","authors":"William Encinosa, Didem Bernard, Thomas M Selden","doi":"10.1007/s10754-021-09307-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10754-021-09307-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The U.S. has addressed the opioid crisis using a two-front approach: state regulations limiting opioid prescriptions for acute pain patients, and voluntary federal CDC guidelines on shifting chronic pain patients to lower opioid doses and non-opioids. No opioid policy research to date has accounted for this two-pronged approach in their research design. We develop a theory of physician prescribing behavior under this two-pronged incentive structure. Using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, we empirically corroborate the theory: regulations and guidelines have the intended effects of reducing opioid prescriptions for acute and chronic pain, respectively, as well as the predicted unintended effects-income effects cause regulations on acute pain treatment to increase chronic pain opioid prescriptions and the chronic pain treatment guidelines spillover to reduce opioids for acute pain. Moreover, we find that the guidelines worked as intended in terms of the reduced usage, with chronic pain patients shifting to non-opioids and also tapering opioid doses. For those who discontinued opioids under regulations and guidelines, we find no harm in terms of increased work limitations due to pain a year after discontinuing opioids. Finally, we observe an unexplained dichotomy-regulations reduce opioid use by causing fewer new starts, whereas guidelines reduce opioid use by discontinuing current users, with no impact on new starts.</p>","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":"22 1","pages":"1-52"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8105705/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38961875","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}
{"title":"Does an upward intergenerational educational spillover effect exist? The effect of children's education on Chinese parents' health.","authors":"Ning Wei, Lülin Zhou, Wenhao Huang","doi":"10.1007/s10754-021-09308-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-021-09308-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Research on the presence of an upward spillover effect of children's education on parental health is rapidly developing. However, there are certain differences in the conclusions of relevant studies, and no consistent viewpoint has been reached.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using the exogenous differences in education generated by the expansion of higher education enrollment that China implemented as a reform in 1999, we analyze this issue by studying the effect of children's higher education on their parents' health.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The instrumental variable (IV) estimation results show that children who received higher education have a significant and positive effect on the physical health of their parents. Compared with the ordinary least squares (OLS) estimation results, the coefficient of the effect of children receiving higher education is larger in the IV estimation.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Children's education can generate a significant active effect on parental health, affecting parental physical health via its effect on parental health cognition and health behaviors. Based on heterogeneity analyses, the effect of a son's education on parental health is more significant than the effect of a daughter's education, and among rural children, higher education has a more significant effect on parental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":"22 1","pages":"69-89"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10754-021-09308-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39328939","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}
{"title":"Racial disparities in health care utilization, the affordable care act and racial concordance preference.","authors":"Alyson Ma, Alison Sanchez, Mindy Ma","doi":"10.1007/s10754-021-09311-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-021-09311-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Affordable Care Act was implemented with the aim of increasing coverage and affordable access with hopes of improving health outcomes and reducing costs. Yet, disparities persist. Coverage and affordable access alone cannot explain the health care gap between racial/ethnic minorities and white patients. Instead, the focus has turned to other factors affecting utilization rates such as the patient-provider relationship. Data from nationally represented U.S. households in 2009-2017 were used to study the association between patient-provider social distance as measured by \"racial/ethnic concordance\" and health care utilization rates for periods covering pre- and post-ACA. Despite the reduction in financial barriers to health access with the implementation of the ACA, the correlation between racial/ethnic concordance and utilization remains positive and significant. The results suggest that while the ACA may have improved coverage and affordability, other dimensions of access, particularly acceptability, as measured by patient-provider clinical interaction experience, remains a factor in the decision to utilize care.</p>","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":"22 1","pages":"91-110"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10754-021-09311-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39339525","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}
{"title":"Impacts of insurance expansion on health cost, health access, and health behaviors: evidence from the medicaid expansion in the US.","authors":"Prabal K De","doi":"10.1007/s10754-021-09306-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10754-021-09306-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Expansion of subsidized health insurance may result in both safer and riskier health behavior and outcomes. While having insurance lowers cost barriers to receive both usual and preventive care, the lower potential cost from adverse health events may also promote risky behavior. In this paper, I exploit expansion in the Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act to estimate the impact of insurance expansion on health outcomes and behaviors for low-income individuals in the US. I find that expansion of coverage has significantly lowered cost and increased access, particularly among minority populations, but has had no significant impact on preventive health behaviors. At the same time, I also find no evidence of moral hazard or increase risky behavior like smoking and drinking among residents of expansion states.</p>","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":"21 4","pages":"495-510"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38858294","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}
Leo Nherera, Barrett Larson, Annemari Cooley, Patrick Reinhard
{"title":"An economic analysis of a wearable patient sensor for preventing hospital-acquired pressure injuries among the acutely ill patients.","authors":"Leo Nherera, Barrett Larson, Annemari Cooley, Patrick Reinhard","doi":"10.1007/s10754-021-09304-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-021-09304-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>More than 2.5 million people in the United States develop pressure injuries annually, which are one of the most common complications occurring in hospitals. Despite being common, hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs) are largely considered preventable by regular patient turning. Although current methodologies to prompt on-time repositioning have limited efficacy, a wearable patient sensor has been shown to optimize turning practices and improve clinical outcomes. The purpose of this study was to assess the cost-effectiveness of patient-wearable sensor in the prevention of HAPIs in acutely ill patients when compared to standard practice alone. A decision analytic model was developed to simulate the expected costs and outcomes from the payer's perspective using data from published literature, including a recently published randomized controlled trial. Both univariate and probabilistic sensitivity analysis were conducted. The patient-wearable sensor was found to be cost saving (dominant). It resulted in better clinical outcomes (77% reduction in HAPIs) compared to standard care and an expected cost savings of $6,621 per patient over a one-year period. Applying the model to a cohort of 1,000 patients, an estimated 203 HAPIs would be avoided with annualized cost reduction of $6,222,884 through all patient treatment settings. The probabilistic analysis returned similar results. In conclusion, the patient-wearable sensor was found to be cost-effective in the prevention of HAPIs and cost-saving to payers and hospitals. These results suggest that patient-wearable sensors should be considered as a cost-effective alternative to standard care in the prevention of HAPIs.</p>","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":"21 4","pages":"457-471"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10754-021-09304-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25575945","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}