International Journal of Health Economics and Management

2004 - 2024

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Volume 13, issue 3, 2013

Evaluating an employee wellness program pp. 173-199

Sankar Mukhopadhyay and Jeanne Wendel

Between two beds: inappropriately delayed discharges from hospitals pp. 201-217

Tor Holmås, M. Kamrul Islam and Egil Kjerstad

Who funds their health savings account and why? pp. 219-232

Song Chen, Anthony Lo Sasso and Aneesh Nandam

Willingness-to-pay to prevent Alzheimer’s disease: a contingent valuation approach pp. 233-245

Rashmita Basu

Awareness and utilization of preventive care services among the elderly under National Health Insurance pp. 247-260

Chun-Chih Chen, Yen-Ju Lin and Ying-Tzu Lin

Health expenses and economic growth: convergence dynamics across the Indian States pp. 261-277

Nicholas Apergis and Puja Padhi

Does healthcare financing converge? Evidence from eight OECD countries pp. 279-300

Wen-Yi Chen

Regulated medical fee schedule of the Japanese health care system pp. 301-317

Makoto Kakinaka and Ryuta Kato

Sleeping money: investigating the huge surpluses of social health insurance in China pp. 319-331

JunQiang Liu and Tao Chen

Volume 13, issue 2, 2013

Responding to financial pressures. The effect of managed care on hospitals’ provision of charity care pp. 95-114

Núria Mas

Generic substitution, financial interests, and imperfect agency pp. 115-138

Maurus Rischatsch, Maria Trottmann and Peter Zweifel

Measuring recession severity and its impact on healthcare expenditure pp. 139-155

Conor Keegan, Steve Thomas, Charles Normand and Conceição Portela

Refining estimates of catastrophic healthcare expenditure: an application in the Indian context pp. 157-172

Indrani Gupta and William Joe

Volume 13, issue 1, 2013

Health care utilization by immigrants in Italy pp. 1-31

Giuliana Luca, Michela Ponzo and Antonio Andres

Health expenditures, health outcomes and the role of good governance pp. 33-52

Marwa Farag, A. Nandakumar, Stanley Wallack, Dominic Hodgkin, Gary Gaumer and Can Erbil

Hospital cost and quality performance in relation to market forces: an examination of U.S. community hospitals in the “post-managed care era” pp. 53-71

H. Jiang, Bernard Friedman and Shenyi Jiang

Appraising financial protection in health: the case of Tunisia pp. 73-93

Mohammad Abu-Zaineh, Habiba Romdhane, Bruno Ventelou, Jean-Paul Moatti and Arfa Chokri

Volume 12, issue 4, 2012

The effects of health shocks on employment and health insurance: the role of employer-provided health insurance pp. 253-267

Cathy Bradley, David Neumark and Meryl Motika

The employment costs of caregiving in Norway pp. 269-283

Andreas Kotsadam

Physician response to financial incentives when choosing drugs to treat breast cancer pp. 285-302

Andrew Epstein and Scott Johnson

Competitive bidding for health insurance contracts: lessons from the online HMO auctions pp. 303-322

Alok Gupta, Stephen Parente and Pallab Sanyal

Volume 12, issue 3, 2012

State health insurance and out-of-pocket health expenditures in Andhra Pradesh, India pp. 189-215

Victoria Fan, Anup Karan and Ajay Mahal

Five questions for health economists pp. 217-233

Randall Ellis

Wussinomics: the state of competitive efficiency in private health insurance pp. 235-245

Mark Pauly

Health economics and policy: towards the undiscovered country of market based reform pp. 247-252

Stephen Parente

Volume 12, issue 2, 2012

Differences between non-profit and for-profit hospices: patient selection and quality pp. 107-127

Sabina Gandhi

Terminal costs, improved life expectancy and future public health expenditure pp. 129-143

Thomas Bjørner and Søren Arnberg

The income elasticity of health care spending in developing and developed countries pp. 145-162

Marwa Farag, A. NandaKumar, Stanley Wallack, Dominic Hodgkin, Gary Gaumer and Can Erbil

Can the health insurance reforms stop an increase in medical expenditures for middle- and old-aged persons in Japan? pp. 163-187

Tamie Matsuura and Masaru Sasaki

Volume 12, issue 1, 2012

Does employment-based private health insurance increase the use of covered health care services? A matching estimator approach pp. 1-38

Astrid Kiil

Public versus private: evidence on health insurance selection pp. 39-61

Cristian Pardo and Whitney Schott

Measuring incidence of catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditure: with application to India pp. 63-85

Rama Pal

Medicare spending, mortality rates, and quality of care pp. 87-105

Jack Hadley and James Reschovsky

Volume 11, issue 4, 2011

Has the European union achieved a single pharmaceutical market? pp. 223-244

Aysegul Timur, Gabriel Picone and Jeffrey DeSimone

Market conditions and general practitioners’ referrals pp. 245-265

Tor Iversen and Ching-to Ma

Out-of-pocket expenditures for hospital care in Iran: who is at risk of incurring catastrophic payments? pp. 267-285

Mohammad Hajizadeh and Hong Son Nghiem

The effects of medical factors on transfer deficits in Public Assistance in Japan: a quantile regression analysis pp. 287-307

Masayoshi Hayashi

Volume 11, issue 3, 2011

The international transferability of human capital in nursing pp. 145-163

Serena Huang

Vertical integration and optimal reimbursement policy pp. 165-179

Christopher Afendulis and Daniel Kessler

How do health insurance loading fees vary by group size?: implications for Healthcare reform pp. 181-207

Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Jean Abraham and Charles Phelps

The determinants of the willingness-to-pay for community-based prepayment scheme in rural Cameroon pp. 209-220

Hermann Donfouet, Ephias Makaudze, Pierre-Alexandre Mahieu and Eric Malin

Erratum to: Education and health: evidence on adults with diabetes pp. 221-222

Padmaja Ayyagari, Daniel Grossman and Frank Sloan

Volume 11, issue 2, 2011

Determining factors of catastrophic health spending in Bogota, Colombia pp. 83-100

Jeannette Amaya Lara and Fernando Ruiz Gómez

The welfare gain from replacing the health insurance tax exclusion with lump-sum tax credits pp. 101-113

Liqun Liu, Andrew Rettenmaier and Thomas Saving

Market power and contract form: evidence from physician group practices pp. 115-132

Robert Town, Roger Feldman and John Kralewski

Labor supply responses to government subsidized health insurance: evidence from kidney transplant patients pp. 133-144

Timothy Page

Volume 11, issue 1, 2011

The quality of medical care, behavioral risk factors, and longevity growth pp. 1-34

Frank Lichtenberg

Education and health: evidence on adults with diabetes pp. 35-54

Padmaja Ayyagari, Daniel Grossman and Frank Sloan

Premium growth and its effect on employer-sponsored insurance pp. 55-81

Jessica Vistnes and Thomas Selden

Volume 10, issue 4, 2010

Assessing willingness to pay for cancer prevention pp. 301-314

Michael Milligan, Alok Bohara and José Pagán

The impact of new drug launches on the loss of labor from disease and injury: evidence from German panel data pp. 315-346

Bui Van and Michael Stolpe

The effects of residential proximity to bars on alcohol consumption pp. 347-367

Gabriel Picone, Joseph MacDougald, Frank Sloan, Alyssa Platt and Stefan Kertesz

On decomposing the inequality and inequity change in health care utilization: change in means, or change in the distributions? pp. 369-386

Hai Zhong

Volume 10, issue 3, 2010

Prescription drug coverage among elderly and disabled Americans: can Medicare—Part D reduce inequities in access? pp. 203-218

Panos Kanavos and Marin Gemmill-Toyama

The impact of decentralization of health care administration on equity in health and health care in Canada pp. 219-237

Hai Zhong

Strategic costs and preferences revelation in the allocation of resources for health care pp. 239-256

Laura Levaggi and Rosella Levaggi

Health care costs during the last 12 months of life in Israel: estimation and implications for risk-adjustment pp. 257-273

Amir Shmueli, David Messika, Irit Zmora and Bernice Oberman

Privatization of local public hospitals: effect on budget, medical service quality, and social welfare pp. 275-299

Hiroshi Aiura and Yasuo Sanjo

Volume 10, issue 2, 2010

Employer-sponsored health insurance for early retirees: impacts on retirement, health, and health care pp. 105-147

Erin Strumpf

Medicare Part B reimbursement and the perceived quality of physician care pp. 149-170

Christopher Brunt and Gail Jensen

Do Medicare Advantage enrollees tend to be admitted to hospitals with better or worse outcomes compared with fee-for-service enrollees? pp. 171-185

Bernard Friedman and H. Jiang

Economic evaluation of the direct healthcare cost savings resulting from the use of walking interventions to prevent coronary heart disease in Australia pp. 187-201

Henry Zheng, Fred Ehrlich and Janaki Amin

Volume 10, issue 1, 2010

The distribution over time of costs and social net benefits for pertussis immunization programs pp. 1-27

Dorota Girard

Toward a needs based mechanism for capitation purposes in Italy: the role of socioeconomic level in explaining differences in the use of health services pp. 29-42

Alessio Petrelli, Roberta Picariello and Giuseppe Costa

Assessing hospital competition when prices don’t matter to patients: the use of time-elasticities pp. 43-60

Marco Varkevisser, Stéphanie Geest and Frederik Schut

Hospital cost shifting revisited: new evidence from the balanced budget act of 1997 pp. 61-83

Vivian Wu

Has the influence of managed care waned? Evidence from the market for physician services pp. 85-103

Hai Fang and John Rizzo