International Journal of Health Economics and Management

2004 - 2026

Current editor(s): Leemore Dafny, Robert Town, Mark Pauly, David Dranove and Pedro Pita Barros

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Volume 26, issue 1, 2026

The design of insurance contracts for home versus nursing home long-term care pp. 1-16

Claire Borsenberger, Helmuth Cremer, Denis Joram, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur and Estelle Malavolti

Volume 25, issue 4, 2025

Bad times make mothers depressed pp. 437-462

Chung-Liang Lin and Te-Fen Lo

Socioeconomic inequities impacting complete continuum of maternal healthcare service utilisation over time in Ethiopia pp. 463-486

Ayal Debie, Molla M. Wassie, Annabelle Wilson, Claire T. Roberts and Jacqueline H. Stephens

Publish or Perish – do French hospitals disclose their greenhouse gas emissions for vertical differentiation? pp. 487-507

Nathalie Clavel, Laurie Marrauld, Myriam Lescher-Cluzel, Estelle Baurès and Nicolas Sirven

Measuring the impact of occupational accidents on value-added labor productivity in Korea pp. 509-531

Myung-Joong Kim and Sunyoung Park

The effect of medicaid expansion on hospital finances: evidence from Washington and Idaho pp. 533-556

Erica H. Johnson

Volume 25, issue 3, 2025

Influence of prior knowledge and experience on willingness to pay for home hospice services: a contingent valuation study pp. 293-315

Caroline Steigenberger, Andrea M. Leiter, Uwe Siebert, Claudia Schusterschitz and Magdalena Flatscher-Thoeni

The impact of periodic updates to health benefits plan: access gains without cost savings? pp. 317-336

Oscar Espinosa Acuña, Paul Rodríguez-Lesmes, Paul Rodriguez Lesmes, Diego Ávila, Sergio Basto, Giancarlo Romano, Lorena Mesa and Hernán Enríquez

The incidence of catastrophic and impoverishing health spending in Morocco: the value added of new methodologies pp. 337-382

Abdeljalil Hassani, Mohcine Bakhat and Abdeslam Boudhar

Fee cuts for radiology and low-value imaging pp. 383-406

David H. Howard, Michal Horný and Marcus Dillender

Is there a link between self-reported unmet needs and healthcare expenditure? pp. 407-435

Liliane Bonnal, Pascal Favard and Thomas Laurent

Volume 25, issue 2, 2025

Baumol’s cost disease in acute versus long-term care: Do the differences loom large? pp. 159-191

Kaan Celebi, Jochen Hartwig and Anna Pauliina Sandqvist

The causal effects of mandatory health insurance coverage expansion in Switzerland pp. 193-215

Boris Kaiser, Andreas Kohler and Christian Schmid

Physicians’ incentives, patients’ characteristics, and quality of care: a systematic experimental comparison of performance-pay systems pp. 217-243

Jeannette Brosig-Koch, Mona Groß, Heike Hennig-Schmidt, Nadja Kairies-Schwarz and Daniel Wiesen

Demand side financing for promoting institutional delivery: experiences of Janani Suraksha Yojana in Indian states pp. 245-270

J. Krishna Nair and Pulak Mishra

The predicted impact of the proposed alcohol production deregulation policy on consumption in Thailand pp. 271-292

Sukampon Chongwilaikasaem, Eva Ayaragarnchanakul, Chaleampong Kongcharoen, Chalermpat Pongajarn and Jürgen Rehm

Volume 25, issue 1, 2025

The pharmaceutical distributors’ efficiency in Italy: an assessment of the impact of the 2010 reimbursable drug pricing reform pp. 1-26

Giorgio Matteucci and Daniele Santis

Equity and efficiency effects of flat premiums pp. 27-49

Cristian Pardo and Jorge Sabat

The effect of the exit of an insurer, due to government liquidation, on access to health care: evidence from Colombia pp. 51-65

Cindy Chamorro, Manuel Fernandez Sierra and Oscar Espinosa Acuña

Do depressive symptoms influence nonattendance at work? A semiparametric approach pp. 67-85

Patricia Moreno-Mencia, Ana Fernandez-Sainz and Juan M. Rodríguez-Póo

Informal and formal long-term care utilization and unmet needs in Europe: examining socioeconomic disparities and the role of social policies for older adults pp. 87-106

Viktoria Szenkurök, Daniela Weber and Marcel Bilger

Feeling discriminated means poor self-perceived health: a gender analysis using SHARE pp. 107-129

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

Vaccination strategies for different contact patterns: weighing epidemiological against economic outcomes pp. 131-157

Rikard Forslid and Mathias Herzing

Volume 24, issue 4, 2024

Estimating price elasticities of demand for pain relief drugs: evidence from Medicare Part D pp. 481-515

Aparna Soni

Internet use, dietary habits and adolescent obesity: evidence from China pp. 517-535

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

Socioeconomic determinants of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance pp. 537-553

Saša Ranđelović and Svetozar Tanasković

Economic instability, income, and unemployment effects on mortality: using SUR panel data in Iran pp. 555-570

Haji Mohammad Neshat Ghojagh, Lotfali Agheli, Sajjad Faraji Dizaji, Mohammad Javad Kabir and Vahid Taghvaee

The effect of health facility ownership on perceived healthcare quality: evidence from Ghana pp. 571-593

Alex Bawuah, Simon Appleton and Yang Li

Can health financing programmes reduce food insecurity in a developing country? pp. 595-621

Raymond Elikplim Kofinti, Isaac Koomson and Josephine Baako-Amponsah

Volume 24, issue 3, 2024

Strategic behaviour and decision making in competitive hospital markets: an experimental investigation pp. 333-355

Johann Han, Nadja Kairies-Schwarz and Markus Vomhof

Too many cooks could spoil the broth: choice overload and the provision of ambulatory health care pp. 357-373

Helmut Herwartz and Christoph Strumann

Analyzing the 20-year declining trend of hospital length-of-stay in European countries with different healthcare systems and reimbursement models pp. 375-392

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

The effect of health facility births on newborn mortality in Malawi pp. 393-406

Dawoon Jung and Booyuel Kim

Matching patients with therapists in culturally diverse rehabilitation services during civil unrest pp. 407-418

Stuart B. Kamenetsky, Vanessa Chen and Eyal Heled

Contribution of high-technology procedures to public healthcare expenditures: the case of ischemic heart disease in Portugal, 2002–2015 pp. 419-437

Wenkang Ma, Ana Timóteo, Vanessa Ribeiro, Ceu Mateus and Julian Perelman

Analyzing the impact of fiscal conditions on private health expenditures in OECD countries: a quantile ARDL investigation pp. 439-463

Nuno Silva, Aida Isabel Tavares, Matheus Koengkan and José Alberto Fuinhas

Measuring household vulnerability to medical expenditure shock: method and its empirical application pp. 465-480

Lei He and Shuyi Zhou

Volume 24, issue 2, 2024

Simple economics of vaccination: public policies and incentives pp. 155-172

Jesús Villota-Miranda and R. Rodríguez-Ibeas

How to increase acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine among poor people in Africa? pp. 173-210

Mathieu Juliot Mpabe Bodjongo

The introduction of a minimum wage in Germany and the effects on physical activity participation pp. 211-229

Sören Dallmeyer and Christoph Breuer

Does a sprawling neighborhood affect obesity? Evidence from Indonesia pp. 231-256

Yunita, Muhammad Yudhistira and Yusuf Reza Kurniawan

Deprivation as a fundamental cause of morbidity and reduced life expectancy: an observational study using German statutory health insurance data pp. 257-277

Danny Wende, Alexander Karmann and Ines Weinhold

Women’s empowerment, modern energy, and demand for maternal health services in Benin pp. 279-299

Alastaire Sèna Alinsato, Calixe Bidossessi Alakonon and Nassibou Bassongui

Education and reproductive health: evidence from schooling expansion in Turkey pp. 301-331

Prabal K. De and Muhammed Tümay

Volume 24, issue 1, 2024

Has pharmaceutical innovation reduced the average cost of U.S. health care episodes? pp. 1-31

Frank Lichtenberg

Out-of-pocket expenditure, need, utilisation, and private health insurance in the Australian healthcare system pp. 33-56

Timothy Ludlow, Jonas Fooken, Christiern Rose and Kam Ki Tang

Price setting in the Brazilian private health insurance sector pp. 57-80

Mônica Andrade, Carolina Marinho, Letícia Nunes and Flavia Colares

Total expenditure elasticity of spending on self-treatment and professional healthcare: a case of Russia pp. 81-105

Evguenii Zazdravnykh, Andrey Aistov and Ekaterina Aleksandrova

Are women breaking the glass ceiling? A gendered analysis of the duration of sick leave in Spain pp. 107-134

Ángel Martín-Román, Alfonso Moral and Sara Pinillos-Franco

Income-related inequality in obesity and its determinants in Spain: What happens beyond the obesity threshold? pp. 135-153

Athina Raftopoulou and Joan Gil Trasfi