Download or read book Essays in Health Policy Economics and Evaluation written by Hae-young Hong and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation comprises three essays on health policy economics and evaluation, all of which analyze responses to health policies using South Korean health insurance administrative data. Chapter 1 develops a novel method for estimating the distribution of elasticities of medical expenditures with respect to out-of-pocket costs, using the responses of patients bunching at a notch in South Korea. Using a natural experiment that exploits differences in the out-of-pocket costs for 64- and 65-year-olds within the same calendar year, I develop a strategy to characterize the conditional cumulative distribution of elasticities given medical expenditures as a function of observable variables. I adopt a copula approach to allow for dependence between the elasticities and medical expenditures. Using Korean health insurance administrative data from 2013-2017, I find the upper bound of the elasticities is 0.17 and the mean is 0.1. Counterfactual policy simulations show that introducing a linear coinsurance rate of 21.3% instead of a notch can improve the welfare of patients and clinics without increasing the insurer's spending. Chapter 2 examines the effect of a change in out-of-pocket costs on clinic visits among the elderly in South Korea. By exploiting variation in the timing of the change in the cost-sharing system based on the date of birth, this study estimates average treatment effects in a difference-in-differences setting with staggered adoption. The results show that patients reduce their clinic visits starting nine days before their 65th birthday, with a 5% decrease on the day before their birthday and a sharp 16.5% increase on the day after. Lower-income groups and dependents are more responsive to the change than higher-income groups and employed individuals. Patients with circulatory system and metabolic diseases are more responsive to the change, and follow-up visits contribute more to the overall change than initial visits. Despite the increase in clinic visits, patients' total out-of-pocket spending decreases, while the insurer bears a greater cost due to changes in patients' behavior. Chapter 3 explores the effects of formal care on family labor supply responses to hospitalization. The Comprehensive Nursing Services (CNS) is a formal care system introduced in 2015 in South Korea to alleviate the burden of family care during hospitalization. Using administrative health insurance data, I apply the doubly robust difference-in-difference method to estimate the impact of the CNS on the employment of family members. The results show that the CNS has statistically significant effects on the labor supply of wives, husbands, and daughters by preventing a decrease in their labor supply due to hospitalization. The positive effect of the CNS on labor supply is greater for minor symptoms than severe symptoms, implying that formal care does not fully substitute for informal care in severe cases. The effects on husbands are only statistically significant for the 50s among age groups, suggesting a preventive effect on early retirement in response to hospitalization.

Download or read book Essays in Health Economics and Health Policy written by Salama S. Freed and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Advances in Health Economics written by Anthony Scott and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-12-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It would be difficult to overstate the standing of the authors. Many HERU alumni are among the most highly esteemed health economists in the world." —Steve Morgan, University of British Columbia This is a series of essays to mark the 25 anniversary of HERU. Existing and former HERU staff write about their special interests and work records. This book addresses many current policy issues which exist in the Scottish (and English) National Health System. HERU is one of the leading health economic institutes in the UK Contributors are all distinguished members of the health economics community Covers a wide range of issues that are relevant to the application of health economics now and into the future.

Download or read book Essays in Health Economics written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three essays in health economics related issues. In the first chapter, I estimated health insurance expansion's effects on young adults' employment using MEPS. In 2010 young adults were allowed to stay on their parent's health insurance plan until the age of 26 by a policy change under the ACA. I used a difference-in-differences model to estimate labor supply effects of this policy on young adults. 23-25-year-olds are in the treatment group, and 26-30-year-olds are in the control group. Additionally, I estimated heterogeneity of the policy's labor supply effect by socio-economic groups. I found that extensive and intensive labor supply decreased among males. The effect is greater among men in higher socio-economic group. In the second chapter, I analyzed whether internet use has an effect on patients' mental health using BRFSS data. Over the last decade internet use has become universal. It provides various health related tools and information sources which may affect patients' distress levels in several ways, and health related distress can have large impacts on quality of life. I used variation across states' "right of way" policies during the broadband boom period of 2001-2005. Using rights of way rules' easiness as a proxy for broadband penetration rates, I investigated whether patients' mental health levels changed differently in states with more lenient rights of way rules. I found that among men internet use improves patients' mental health. In the third chapter, I studied labor market effects of the early Medicaid expansions under the ACA in 2010 using data from Current Population Survey. The ACA extends public insurance coverage to low income childless adults, yet we know very little about the effect of a public health insurance extension on childless adults' labor supply. The ACA allowed states to extend Medicaid and a number of states opted in early and extended Medicaid in 2010. I utilized this variation among states to evaluate whether the policy had any effect on childless adults' employment. I found that the policy had no effect on labor supply of the overall population. I found evidence that the policy mainly affected near-retirement-aged childless.

Download or read book Essays in Health Economics and Health Policy written by Eun Young Kim and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is a compilation of three essays. The first essay critiques a recent paper by Wilper et al. (2009) for its inappropriate model calibration in analyzing the association of health insurance and mortality. Using the individual-level data from a nationwide survey with more recent mortality follow-up information, it shows that the privately-insured do not significantly fare better in mortality risk compared to the uninsured. Moreover, hazard ratio estimate for the Medicaid suggests that public provision of insurance increases mortality. The second essay addresses the role of income in explaining the differential public health outcomes across developed countries. Noting that the growing arguments for socioeconomic gradient in health are based mostly on cross-sectional studies, panel analyses of five different public health outcomes are conducted. Results demonstrate that economic development remains critical in explaining health improvements at the aggregate level. The third essay analyzes the association of income and health care spending at the aggregate level. Using a large panel data from 24 industrialized nations for more than three decades, the close relationship between income and health care spending is established. In contrast to earlier cross-sectional studies, the panel analysis suggests that health expenditure growth is not as rapid as income growth in almost all nations.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Health Economics written by and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2014-02-21 with total page 1663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Health Economics offers students, researchers and policymakers objective and detailed empirical analysis and clear reviews of current theories and polices. It helps practitioners such as health care managers and planners by providing accessible overviews into the broad field of health economics, including the economics of designing health service finance and delivery and the economics of public and population health. This encyclopedia provides an organized overview of this diverse field, providing one trusted source for up-to-date research and analysis of this highly charged and fast-moving subject area. Features research-driven articles that are objective, better-crafted, and more detailed than is currently available in journals and handbooks Combines insights and scholarship across the breadth of health economics, where theory and empirical work increasingly come from non-economists Provides overviews of key policies, theories and programs in easy-to-understand language

Download or read book Essays on Health Economics written by Grace Ellis Arnold and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Health Policy And Economics Opportunities And Challenges written by Smith, Peter and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health economics has made major contributions to the development of health policy in many countries. This book describes those successes and looks forward to the major contributions that health economics can bring to bear on emerging policy issues in health and health care. With contributions from internationally recognized researchers, this book addresses generic policy issues confronting health systems across the developed world. The coverage progresses from micro, patient level issues to macro, whole system issues including: Determining cost-effective treatments Fair distribution of health care Regulatory issues such as performance measurement and incentives Revenue distribution Decentralization and internationalization of health systems Health Policy and Economics identifies the major contributions that health economics makes to important policy issues in health and health care. It is key reading for policy makers and health managers as well as students and academics with an interest in health policy and health services research. Contributors: Ron L. Akehurst, Karen E. Bloor, Martin Buxton, Karl P. Claxton, Richard Cookson, Diane A. Dawson, Paul Dolan, Mike Drummond, Brian Ferguson, Hugh Gravelle, Maria Goddard, Katharina Hauck, John Hutton, Andrew M. Jones, Rowena Jacobs, Paul Kind, Rosella Levaggi, Guillem Lpez Casanovas, Alan K. Maynard, Nigel Rice, Anthony Scott, Rebecca Shaw, Trevor Sheldon, Andrew D. Street, Mark Sculpher, Matthew Sutton, Peter C. Smith, Adrian Towse, Aki Tsuchiya, Alan H. Williams.

Download or read book Three Essays in Health Economics written by Ryuta Kato and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Health Economics and Development Policies written by Henrique Veras De Paiva Fonseca and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in Health Economics and Public Policy written by Olga V. Milliken and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Measuring and Valuing Health Benefits for Economic Evaluation written by John Brazier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-11 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With limited resources and funding, it is impossible to invest in all potentially beneficial health care interventions. Choices have to be made, and this practical guide allows the reader to measure and value the benefits of interventions, a key component of economic evaluation, which then permits comparisons between interventions.

Download or read book World Scientific Handbook Of Global Health Economics And Public Policy A 3 volume Set written by Richard M Scheffler and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 1627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Understanding global health economics and policy has never been so important. This remarkable three-volume collection of chapters is sure to become the standard on health economics and health policy around the world.'David CutlerOtto Eckstein Professor of Applied EconomicsHarvard UniversityThis Handbook covers major topics in global health economics and public policy and provides a timely, systematic review of the field. Edited by Richard M Scheffler, Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy and Director of the Global Center for Health Economics and Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley, the Handbook features academics and practitioners from more than a dozen countries. Contributors are from the London School of Economics and Political Science, Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, University of York, University of Oslo, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of California - Berkeley, Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Toronto, University of Oxford, Harvard Medical School, OECD, the World Health Organization and the World Bank, many of whom have also acted as economic and policy advisors to government and non-governmental organizations across the world. Experts in these areas who provide critical analyses and relevant data for further exploration and research include: Thomas E Getzen, Executive Director of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA); Douglas E Hough, Associate Scientist and Associate Director of the Master in Healthcare Management programme at the Bloomberg School of Public Health of John Hopkins University; Guillem López-Casasnovas, former President of iHEA and member of the Advisory Council of the Spanish Health and Social Welfare Ministry and of the Advisory Council of the Catalan Health Ministry since 1984; Alistair McGuire, Professor of Health Economics at the London School of Economics and Political and advisor to a number of governments and governmental bodies across Europe; Tor Iversen, Research Director at the Health Economics Research Programme at the University of Oslo and former member of the iHEA Arrow Award Committee 2007-2011; William H Dow, Professor and Associate Dean for Research at University of California ,Berkeley and former Senior Economist for the Council of Economic Advisors (White House); Audrey Laporte, the Director of the Canadian Centre for Health Economics; Alexander S Preker, President and CEO of Health Investment & Financing Corporation; Ayda Yurekli, who initiated and developed the World Health Organization TaXSiM simulation model that has been used by many Ministries of Finance around the world for the development of tax policies; Marko Vujicic, Managing Vice President of the Health Policy Resources Center at the American Dental Association; Mark Sculpher, Director of the Programme on Economic Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment at the University of York and former President of the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) (2011-2012); and Peter Berman, who has had almost 40 years of experience in global health and was formerly a Lead Health Economist at the World Bank. The Handbook spans across three volumes. The chapters deal with key global issues in health economics, are evidence-based, and offer innovative policy alternatives and solutions. The Handbook's approach toward global health economics and public policy will make it a useful resource for health economists, policymakers, private sector companies, NGOs, government decision-makers and those who manage healthcare systems.

Download or read book The Economics of Public Health written by Heather Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-communicable diseases have surpassed infectious diseases as the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developed countries. Prevention and treatment of the causes and consequences of lifestyle-related diseases forms an important part of health policy in the twenty-first century. Public health economics – from quantifying the problem, to evaluating interventions and developing toolkits to assist decision makers – is an essential area for any postgraduate student and researcher with an interest in applied economics to understand. There are a wide range of techniques from mainstream economics and health economics that can be applied to the evaluation of public health policy and public health issues. In this book, Brown presents examples from developed countries to illustrate how economic tools can be applied to public health. Further, cross-country comparisons illustrate how contextual factors related to healthcare systems, demographics and environmental factors may impact on outcomes and the cost-effectiveness of public health policies, in order to aid understanding and help students apply theory into practice.

Download or read book Essays in Health Economics written by Hui Ding and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores various topics in health economics, specifically the use of different types of health care (i.e., mental health, durable medical equipment, and chronic disease management in primary care settings) and how public insurance policies affect the price and utilization of health care products and services. In Chapter 1, I explore the geographic variation in mental health care use among the Medicare population. Using administrative data from Medicare, I isolates the patient- and place-specific drivers of the geographic variation in mental health care use among elderly adults. Specifically, I use an event-study framework with individual fixed effects to study changes in mental health care utilization for patients who move across areas with differing rates of average utilization. My results show that 60 percent of the geographic variation is attributed to place-specific factors. I then explore components of the "place effect", finding that mental health care provider capacity explains only one tenth of it. Beyond that, local attitudes toward mental health play an important role, as shown by asymmetric responses for people who move from low-to-high and high-to-low care utilization areas, especially among those who were never diagnosed with any mental illness before moving. Lastly, I find a strong negative correlation between area-level mental health care utilization and suicide rates, and evidence that moving to high utilization areas is associated with a lower risk of self-harm-related Emergency Department visits. These findings suggest that promoting mental health care could benefit the elderly population, and that there is substantial scope for achieving this goal with interventions targeting place-specific factors. In Chapter 2, along with co-authors Mark Duggan and Amanda Starc, I study Medicare's competitive bidding program (CBP) for durable medical equipment (DME). We use Medicare claims data to examine the effect on prices and utilization, focusing on continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices for sleep apnea. We find that spending falls by 47.2% percent after a highly imperfect bidding mechanism is introduced. This is almost entirely driven by a 44.8% price reduction, though quantities also fall by 4.3\%. To disentangle supply and demand, we leverage differential cost sharing across Medicare recipients. We measure a demand elasticity of -0.272 and find that quantity reductions are concentrated among less clinically appropriate groups. In Chapter 3, along with co-authors Yiwei Chen, Min Yu, Jieming Zhong, Ruying Hu, Xiangyu Chen, Chunmei Wang, Kaixu Xie and Karen Eggleston, I investigate the effect of chronic disease management provided in primary health care (PHC) setting in rural China. Health systems globally face increasing morbidity and mortality from chronic diseases, yet many - especially in low- and middle-income countries - lack strong chronic disease management and PHC system. We provide evidence on China's efforts to promote PHC management using unique five-year panel data in a rural county, including health care utilization from medical claims and health outcomes from biomarkers. Utilizing plausibly exogenous variation in management intensity generated by administrative and geographic boundaries, we compare hypertension/diabetes patients in villages within two kilometers distance but managed by different townships. Results show that, compared to patients in townships with median management intensity, patients in high-intensity townships have 4.8% more PHC visits, 5.2% fewer specialist visits, 11.7% fewer inpatient admissions, and 3.6% lower medical spending. They also tend to have better medication adherence and better control of blood pressure. The resource savings from avoided inpatient admissions substantially outweigh the costs of the program.

Download or read book Contemporary Health Economics Essays written by Shastri Pandey and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Health Economics Essays" by Shastri Pandey offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamic intersection between economics and modern healthcare systems. With a meticulous blend of insightful analysis and empirical research, Pandey delves into the pressing issues that shape health economics in today's world. This collection of essays presents a thought-provoking journey through topics such as healthcare policy reform, cost-effectiveness analysis, insurance market dynamics, and the role of technology in shaping healthcare delivery. Pandey's incisive writing elucidates the intricate relationships between economic principles, public health, and healthcare outcomes, shedding light on the challenges and opportunities faced by policymakers, practitioners, and researchers. Through rigorous examination and lucid exposition, Pandey navigates the reader through the complexities of health economics, unraveling its impact on healthcare accessibility, affordability, and quality. Drawing from a rich array of data and contemporary case studies, the author stimulates critical thinking about the choices and trade-offs inherent in healthcare resource allocation. "Contemporary Health Economics Essays" is an indispensable resource for students, scholars, and professionals seeking a deep understanding of the evolving landscape of health economics. Shastri Pandey's authoritative voice provides fresh perspectives, paving the way for informed discussions and evidence-based decisions that shape the future of healthcare worldwide.