Dana Kendzia, Sophie Böger, Carsten Hornig, Christian Apel, Edyta Ryczek, Helen Smethurst, Jovana Petrovic Vorkapic
{"title":"A systematic review of economic models comparing in-centre haemodialysis interventions: challenges for demonstrating cost-effectiveness in the context of high background dialysis costs.","authors":"Dana Kendzia, Sophie Böger, Carsten Hornig, Christian Apel, Edyta Ryczek, Helen Smethurst, Jovana Petrovic Vorkapic","doi":"10.1007/s10198-026-01927-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10198-026-01927-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51416,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Health Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147693439","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}
{"title":"France versus Germany: differences and similarities in determining the added therapeutic value of medicines.","authors":"Pauline Kilwing, Charalabos-Markos Dintsios","doi":"10.1007/s10198-026-01911-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-026-01911-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51416,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Health Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147693467","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}
{"title":"Emergency departments under fire: analysing the impact of heat on waiting time.","authors":"Vincenzo Alfano, Alessandro Scaletti","doi":"10.1007/s10198-026-01925-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-026-01925-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51416,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Health Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147693450","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}
Jarmila Zimmermannová, Karel Helman, Miroslav Hájek
{"title":"The impact of health risks on healthcare expenditure in European countries.","authors":"Jarmila Zimmermannová, Karel Helman, Miroslav Hájek","doi":"10.1007/s10198-026-01902-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-026-01902-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Population health affects the sustainability of socio-economic development, the perceived personal risks being alcohol consumption, smoking and obesity, greenhouse gas emissions representing a common environmental risk. The aim of this research article is to examine the potential impact of risk factors on national health expenditure over the period 2013-2021 in selected European countries divided into several groups according to health risk indicators. We examine two basic models - a harmful consumption model and an environmental model, the main dependent variable being total healthcare expenditure. To analyse partial relationships between risky behaviour or air pollution and healthcare spending, linear panel regression models were constructed assessing how country characteristics contribute to explaining the variation in healthcare costs. The results of this study suggest that sustainable health financing would benefit from more effective prevention of increased unhealthy consumption.</p>","PeriodicalId":51416,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Health Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147663118","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}
Nicolás Jana-Valencia, Macarena Castro, Salma Ayis, Magdalena Walbaum, Huajie Jin
{"title":"The cost-effectiveness of value-based insurance design initiatives in managing cardiometabolic diseases: a systematic review.","authors":"Nicolás Jana-Valencia, Macarena Castro, Salma Ayis, Magdalena Walbaum, Huajie Jin","doi":"10.1007/s10198-026-01900-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-026-01900-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Healthcare systems are increasingly seeking cost-effective strategies to optimise value for money. Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) presents a promising approach by aligning financial incentives with service value. By reducing out-of-pocket payments (OOP) for high-value care, VBID aims to improve efficiency, but its cost-effectiveness remains uncertain. Given the rising economic burden of cardiometabolic diseases, this systematic review evaluates VBID's cost-effectiveness from multiple perspectives. The analysis included a qualitative assessment of effectiveness and costs, as well as a descriptive evaluation of adherence elasticity to explore how variations in copayment levels influenced patient behaviour. Thirty studies met the inclusion criteria: nine focused on high-value services, others targeted specific populations or diseases, and 12 evaluated VBID initiatives in combination with disease management programmes. Findings indicate that whilst VBID generally improves patient adherence and reduces financial burdens, adherence sensitivity to price variations remains modest. Although insurers often incur additional pharmaceutical expenditures in anticipation of clinical cost-offsets, these trade-offs do not always materialise, resulting in uncertainty regarding the intervention's fiscal impact. Although these initiatives improve patient adherence, these gains do not consistently translate into better clinical outcomes, which are the key drivers through which VBID achieves substantial cost reductions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51416,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Health Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147663177","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}
Verena Schmidbauer, Sarah Heidenreiter, Michael Lauerer, Martin Emmert
{"title":"The impact of heat and cold events on direct, indirect, and intangible healthcare costs: a systematic review.","authors":"Verena Schmidbauer, Sarah Heidenreiter, Michael Lauerer, Martin Emmert","doi":"10.1007/s10198-026-01920-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-026-01920-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51416,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Health Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147663161","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}
Fiorella Parra-Mujica, Laurence S J Roope, Mara Violato, Raymond M Duch, Philip M Clarke
{"title":"Public preferences for saving lives versus life-years: evidence from a person-trade-off experiment in 12 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Fiorella Parra-Mujica, Laurence S J Roope, Mara Violato, Raymond M Duch, Philip M Clarke","doi":"10.1007/s10198-026-01915-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-026-01915-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51416,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Health Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624720","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}
Arendse Tange Larsen, Liza Sopina, Jesper Mølgaard, Eske Kvanner Aasvang, Christian S Meyhoff, Jakob Kjellberg, Søren Rud Kristensen
{"title":"Impact of postoperative in-hospital continuous vital sign monitoring on healthcare costs, resource utilization and labor market outcomes.","authors":"Arendse Tange Larsen, Liza Sopina, Jesper Mølgaard, Eske Kvanner Aasvang, Christian S Meyhoff, Jakob Kjellberg, Søren Rud Kristensen","doi":"10.1007/s10198-026-01919-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-026-01919-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51416,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Health Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624566","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}
{"title":"Measuring and decomposing income inequalities in child and adolescent mental health in the UK.","authors":"Murong Yang, Claire Carson, Mara Violato","doi":"10.1007/s10198-026-01918-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-026-01918-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51416,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Health Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624610","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}
{"title":"The inpatient economic burden of antibiotic resistance in Switzerland: a regression-based analysis.","authors":"Giulio Cisco, Joachim Marti, Fabio Agri","doi":"10.1007/s10198-026-01910-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-026-01910-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51416,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Health Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147596068","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}