Health Economics Review

2011 - 2025

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Volume 7, issue 1, 2017

Identification determinant factors on willingness to pay for health services in Iran pp. 1-6

Javad Javan-Noughabi, Zahra Kavosi, Ahmad Faramarzi and Mohammad Khammarnia

National health insurance subscription and maternal healthcare utilisation across mothers’ wealth status in Ghana pp. 1-15

Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Raymond Elikplim Kofinti and Francis Appiah

Overcoming resistance against managed care – insights from a bargaining model pp. 1-15

Andree Ehlert, Thomas Wein and Peter Zweifel

Out-of-pocket expenditure and catastrophic health spending on maternal care in public and private health centres in India: a comparative study of pre and post national health mission period pp. 1-15

Sanjay K. Mohanty and Anshul Kastor

Health care utilisation amongst older adults with sensory and cognitive impairments in Europe pp. 1-15

David G. Lugo-Palacios and Brenda Gannon

Hospital physician payment mechanisms in Austria: do they provide gateways to institutional corruption? pp. 1-13

Margit Sommersguter-Reichmann and Adolf Stepan

Health expenditure and economic growth - a review of the literature and an analysis between the economic community for central African states (CEMAC) and selected African countries pp. 1-13

Serge Piabuo and Julius Chupezi Tieguhong

Economic burden of cancer among patients with surgical resections of the lung, rectum, liver and uterus: results from a US hospital database claims analysis pp. 1-13

Iftekhar Kalsekar, Chia-Wen Hsiao, Hang Cheng, Sashi Yadalam, Brian Po-Han Chen, Laura Goldstein and Andrew Yoo

Technical efficiency of selected hospitals in Eastern Ethiopia pp. 1-13

Murad Ali, Megersa Debela and Tewfik Bamud

Willingness to accept capitation payment system under the Ghana National Health Insurance Policy: do income levels matter? pp. 1-13

Frank Gyimah Sackey and Peter N. Amponsah

Regional disparities in medical equipment distribution in the Slovak Republic – a platform for a health policy regulatory mechanism pp. 1-13

Beáta Gavurová, Viliam Kováč and Ján Fedačko

Income-related inequalities in diseases and health conditions over the business cycle pp. 1-17

Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir and Hildur Margrét Jóhannsdóttir

Economic conditions, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease: analysis of the Icelandic economic collapse pp. 1-21

Kristín Helga Birgisdóttir, Stefán Hrafn Jónsson and Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir

Costs of productivity loss due to occupational cancer in Canada: estimation using claims data from Workers’ Compensation Boards pp. 1-11

W. Dominika Wranik, Adam Muir and Min Hu

Convergence and determinants of health expenditures in OECD countries pp. 1-11

Hong Son Nghiem and Luke Connelly

Economics of open tibial fractures: the pivotal role of length-of-stay and infection pp. 1-11

Harm Hoekstra, Bart Smeets, Willem-Jan Metsemakers, Anne-Cécile Spitz and Stefaan Nijs

Public release of hospital quality data for referral practices in Germany: results from a cluster-randomised controlled trial pp. 1-11

Martin Emmert, Nina Meszmer, Lisa Jablonski, Lena Zinth, Oliver Schöffski and Fatemeh Taheri-Zadeh

The cost-effectiveness of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation: a systematic review of the characteristics and methodological quality of published literature pp. 1-23

Katherine Edwards, Natasha Jones, Julia Newton, Charlie Foster, Andrew Judge, Kate Jackson, Nigel K. Arden and Rafael Pinedo-Villanueva

Results of a randomized controlled trial analyzing telemedically supported case management in the first year after living donor kidney transplantation - a budget impact analysis from the healthcare perspective pp. 1-8

Klaus Kaier, Silvia Hils, Stefan Fetzer, Philip Hehn, Anja Schmid, Dieter Hauschke, Lioudmila Bogatyreva, Bernd Jänigen and Przemyslaw Pisarski

Cost-utility analysis of dynamic intraligamentary stabilization versus early reconstruction after rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament pp. 1-8

Martin Bierbaum, Oliver Schöffski, Benedikt Schliemann and Clemens Kösters

Economic evaluation of 2014 cholera outbreak in Ghana: a household cost analysis pp. 1-8

Dziedzom Kwesi Awalime, Bernard Bright K. Davies-Teye, Linda A. Vanotoo, Nkechi Owoo and Edward Nketiah-Amponsah

The costs of repatriating an ill seafarer: a micro-costing approach pp. 1-8

Mads D. Faurby, Olaf C. Jensen, Lulu Hjarnoe and Despena Andrioti

Assessing the impact of state “opt-out” policy on access to and costs of surgeries and other procedures requiring anesthesia services pp. 1-25

John E. Schneider, Robert Ohsfeldt, Pengxiang Li, Thomas R. Miller and Cara Scheibling

Does birth under-registration reduce childhood immunization? Evidence from the Dominican Republic pp. 1-18

Steve Brito, Ana Corbacho and Rene Osorio

Some microeconometric evidence on the relationship between health and income pp. 1-18

Amélie Adeline and Eric Delattre

Assessing the effects of price regulation and freedom of choice on quality: evidence from the physiotherapy market pp. 1-16

Piia Pekola, Ismo Linnosmaa and Hennamari Mikkola

Determinants and the impact of the National Health Insurance on neonatal mortality in Ghana pp. 1-16

Monica Lambon-Quayefio and Nkechi Owoo

The net effects of medical malpractice tort reform on health insurance losses: the Texas experience pp. 1-16

Patricia H. Born, J. Bradley Karl and W Viscusi

Does spending matters? Re-looking into various covariates associated with Out of Pocket Expenditure (OOPE) and catastrophic spending on accidental injury from NSSO 71st round data pp. 1-16

Jalandhar Pradhan, Rinshu Dwivedi, Sanghamitra Pati and Sarit Kumar Rout

Socioeconomic inequality of diabetes patients’ health care utilization in Denmark pp. 1-22

Camilla Sortsø, Jørgen Lauridsen, Martha Emneus, Anders Green and Peter Bjødstrup Jensen

A comparative analysis of a disposable and a reusable pedicle screw instrument kit for lumbar arthrodesis: integrating HTA and MCDA pp. 1-10

Claudia Ottardi, Alessio Damonti, Emanuele Porazzi, Emanuela Foglia, Lucrezia Ferrario, Tomaso Villa, Enrico Aimar, Marco Brayda-Bruno and Fabio Galbusera

Effect of reducing cost sharing for outpatient care on children’s inpatient services in Japan pp. 1-10

Hirotaka Kato and Rei Goto

Adjusting health spending for the presence of comorbidities: an application to United States national inpatient data pp. 1-10

Joseph L. Dieleman, Ranju Baral, Elizabeth Johnson, Anne Bulchis, Maxwell Birger, Anthony L. Bui, Madeline Campbell, Abigail Chapin, Rose Gabert, Hannah Hamavid, Cody Horst, Jonathan Joseph, Liya Lomsadze, Ellen Squires and Martin Tobias

Effects of a mobility monitoring system on the cost of care in relation to reimbursement at Swiss nursing homes: learnings from a randomized controlled trial pp. 1-10

Mario Stark, Rigo Tietz, Heidrun Gattinger, Virpi Hantikainen and Stefan Ott

On the interdependence of ambulatory and hospital care in the German health system pp. 1-19

Tugba Büyükdurmus, Thomas Kopetsch, Hendrik Schmitz and Harald Tauchmann

Policy makers, the international community and the population in the prevention and treatment of diseases: case study on HIV/AIDS pp. 1-12

Kjell Hausken and Mthuli Ncube

Standardised mortality rate for cerebrovascular diseases in the Slovak Republic from 1996 to 2013 in the context of income inequalities and its international comparison pp. 1-12

Beáta Gavurová, Viliam Kováč and Tatiana Vagašová

Is health care a necessary or luxury product for Asian countries? An answer using panel approach pp. 1-12

S. M. Abdullah, Salina Siddiqua and Rumana Huque

Medicare modernization and diffusion of endoscopy in FFS medicare pp. 1-9

Lee R. Mobley, Pedro Amaral, Tzy-Mey Kuo, Mei Zhou and Srimoyee Bose

Variation in the relationship between birth weight and subsequent obesity by household income pp. 1-9

Jonas Minet Kinge

The premarket assessment of the cost-effectiveness of a predictive technology “Straticyte™” for the early detection of oral cancer: a decision analytic model pp. 1-9

S. Khoudigian-Sinani, G. Blackhouse, M. Levine, L. Thabane and D. O’Reilly

Cost-effectiveness of nurse-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) compared to supportive listening (SL) for adjustment to multiple sclerosis pp. 1-9

I. Mosweu, R. Moss-Morris, L. Dennison, T. Chalder and P. McCrone

The operations of the free maternal care policy and out of pocket payments during childbirth in rural Northern Ghana pp. 1-9

Philip Ayizem Dalinjong, Alex Y. Wang and Caroline S. E. Homer

Valuing productivity loss due to absenteeism: firm-level evidence from a Canadian linked employer-employee survey pp. 1-14

Wei Zhang, Huiying Sun, Simon Woodcock and Aslam H. Anis

Pay for performance and contractual choice: the case of general practitioners in England pp. 1-14

Eleonora Fichera and Mario Pezzino

Distinct impacts of high intensity caregiving on caregivers’ mental health and continuation of caregiving pp. 1-14

Narimasa Kumagai

Discrete-choice modelling of patient preferences for modes of drug administration pp. 1-14

Ebenezer Kwabena Tetteh, Steve Morris and Nigel Titcheneker-Hooker

Palivizumab in the prevention of severe respiratory syncytial virus infection in children with congenital heart disease; a novel cost-utility modeling study reflecting evidence-based clinical pathways in Spain pp. 1-14

Ralph Schmidt, Istvan Majer, Natalia García Román, Alejandra Rivas Basterra, ElizaBeth Grubb and Constancio Medrano López

Volume 6, issue 1, 2015

Social interactions, trust and risky alcohol consumption pp. 1-9

Abdu Seid

Social interactions, trust and risky alcohol consumption pp. 1-9

Abdu Kedir Seid

Quality of life and costs of spasticity treatment in German stroke patients pp. 1-9

Reinhard Rychlik, Fabian Kreimendahl, Nicole Schnur, Judith Lambert-Baumann and Dirk Dressler

What, who and when? Incorporating a discrete choice experiment into an economic evaluation pp. 1-9

Michela Tinelli, Mandy Ryan and Christine Bond

Patient preferences in allergy immunotherapy (AIT) in Germany – a discrete-choice-experiment pp. 1-9

Kathrin Damm, Janina Volk, Andreas Horn, Jean-Pierre Allam, Ninette Troensegaard-Petersen, Niels Serup-Hansen, Thomas Winkler, Ivonne Thiessen, Kathrin Borchert, Eike G. Wüstenberg and Thomas Mittendorf

The determinants of the choice of treatment of pregnant women in Cameroon pp. 1-9

Saturnin Bertrand Nguenda Anya and Atanase Yene

Experimental measurement of preferences in health and healthcare using best-worst scaling: an overview pp. 1-14

Axel Mühlbacher, Anika Kaczynski, Peter Zweifel and F. Johnson

Experimental measurement of preferences in health and healthcare using best-worst scaling: an overview pp. 1-14

Axel C. Mühlbacher, Anika Kaczynski, Peter Zweifel and F. Reed Johnson

The health conditions and the health care consumption of the uninsured pp. 1-19

Marco A. Castaneda and Meryem Saygili

Experimental measurement of preferences in health care using best-worst scaling (BWS): theoretical and statistical issues pp. 1-12

Axel Mühlbacher, Peter Zweifel, Anika Kaczynski and F. Johnson

Experimental measurement of preferences in health care using best-worst scaling (BWS): theoretical and statistical issues pp. 1-12

Axel C. Mühlbacher, Peter Zweifel, Anika Kaczynski and F. Reed Johnson

Regional differences of standardised mortality rates for ischemic heart diseases in the Slovak Republic for the period 1996–2013 in the context of income inequality pp. 1-12

Beáta Gavurová and Tatiana Vagašová

Benefit assessment in Germany: implications for price discounts pp. 1-12

Ulrike Theidel and Johann Graf von der Schulenburg

Cost of a lymphedema treatment mandate-10 years of experience in the Commonwealth of Virginia pp. 1-12

Robert Weiss

No theory: an explanation of the lack of consistency in cross-country health care comparisons using non-parametric estimators pp. 1-12

Richard Gearhart

Utilization of healthcare services and renewal of health insurance membership: evidence of adverse selection in Ghana pp. 1-12

Stephen Kwasi Opoku Duku, Francis Asenso-Boadi, Edward Nketiah-Amponsah and Daniel Kojo Arhinful

Extending health insurance in Ghana: effects of the National Health Insurance Scheme on maternity care pp. 1-10

Agar Brugiavini and Noemi Pace

Extending health insurance in Ghana: effects of the National Health Insurance Scheme on maternity care pp. 1-10

Agar Brugiavini and Noemi Pace

Reablement in community-dwelling older adults: a cost-effectiveness analysis alongside a randomized controlled trial pp. 1-10

Egil Kjerstad and Hanne Kristin Tuntland

Efficiency of Ontario primary care physicians across payment models: a stochastic frontier analysis pp. 1-10

Maude Laberge, Walter P. Wodchis, Jan Barnsley and Audrey Laporte

Systematic review of health state utility values for economic evaluation of colorectal cancer pp. 1-10

Kim Jeong and John Cairns

Financial burden and quality of life of informal caregivers of patients with wet age-related macular degeneration pp. 1-10

Hannah Weyer-Wendl and Peter Walter

Health expenditures spent for prevention, economic performance, and social welfare pp. 1-10

Fuhmei Wang, Jung- Der Wang and Yu-Xiu Huang

Family income and body mass index – what have we learned from China pp. 1-10

Fafanyo Asiseh and Jianfeng Yao

Measuring quality of life in opioid-induced constipation: mapping EQ-5D-3 L and PAC-QOL pp. 1-7

Anthony James Hatswell and Stefan Vegter

A cost and performance comparison of Public Private Partnership and public hospitals in Spain pp. 1-7

Maria Caballer-Tarazona and David Vivas-Consuelo

Comparison of charges and resource use associated with saxagliptin and sitagliptin pp. 1-7

Varun Vaidya, Keyuri Adhikari, Jack Sheehan and Iftekhar Kalsekar

Mixed method versus full top-down microcosting for organ recovery cost assessment in a French hospital group pp. 1-7

Abdelbaste Hrifach, Coralie Brault, Sandrine Couray-Targe, Lionel Badet, Pascale Guerre, Christell Ganne, Hassan Serrier, Vanessa Labeye, Pierre Farge and Cyrille Colin

Information, regulation and coordination: realist analysis of the efforts of community health committees to limit informal health care providers in Nigeria pp. 1-16

Seye Abimbola, Kemi Ogunsina, Augustina N. Charles-Okoli, Joel Negin, Alexandra L. Martiniuk and Stephen Jan

Erratum to: ‘Quality of life and costs of spasticity treatment in German stroke patients’ pp. 1-4

Reinhard Rychlik, Fabian Kreimendahl, Nicole Schnur, Judith Lambert-Baumann and Dirk Dressler

Factors influencing the variation in GMS prescribing expenditure in Ireland pp. 1-8

A. ConwayLenihan, S. Ahern, S. Moore, J. Cronin and N. Woods

Where did civil servants go? the effect of an increase in public co-payments on double insured patients pp. 1-8

Sofia Vaz and Pedro Ramos

Health insurance subscription among women in reproductive age in Ghana: do socio-demographics matter? pp. 1-8

Hubert Amu and Kwamena Sekyi Dickson

Implementing personalized medicine with asymmetric information on prevalence rates pp. 1-8

Fernando Antoñanzas, Carmelo A. Juárez-Castelló and Roberto Rodríguez-Ibeas

Modelling the cost-effectiveness of human milk and breastfeeding in preterm infants in the United Kingdom pp. 1-8

James Mahon, Lindsay Claxton and Hannah Wood

The determinants of the propensity to receive publicly funded home care services for the elderly in Canada: a panel two-stage residual inclusion approach pp. 1-18

Gustavo Mery, Walter Wodchis and Audrey Laporte

The determinants of the propensity to receive publicly funded home care services for the elderly in Canada: a panel two-stage residual inclusion approach pp. 1-18

Gustavo Mery, Walter P. Wodchis and Audrey Laporte

Does performance-based financing increase value for money in low- and middle- income countries? A systematic review pp. 1-18

Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay, Jessica Spagnolo, Manuela De Allegri and Valéry Ridde

Reply to the critics on “binge drinking and alcohol prices” pp. 1-3

Jon Nelson

Patient- and person-reports on healthcare: preferences, outcomes, experiences, and satisfaction – an essay pp. 1-11

K. Klose, S. Kreimeier, U. Tangermann, I. Aumann and K. Damm

Regional inequalities in child malnutrition in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen: a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis pp. 1-11

Mesbah Sharaf and Ahmed Rashad

Health system support and health system strengthening: two key facilitators to the implementation of ambulatory tuberculosis treatment in Uzbekistan pp. 1-11

Stefan Kohler, Damin Abdurakhimovich Asadov, Andreas Bründer, Sean Healy, Atadjan Karimovich Khamraev, Natalia Sergeeva and Peter Tinnemann

The abolition of user charges and the demand for ambulatory visits: evidence from the Czech Republic pp. 1-11

Jana Votapkova (Prochazkova) and Pavlina Zilova

Frontline staff motivation levels and health care quality in rural and urban primary health facilities: a baseline study in the Greater Accra and Western regions of Ghana pp. 1-11

Robert Kaba Alhassan and Edward Nketiah-Amponsah

Heterogeneity in general practitioners’ preferences for quality improvement programs: a choice experiment and policy simulation in France pp. 1-11

Mehdi Ammi and Christine Peyron

Comparison of post-authorisation measures from regulatory authorities with additional evidence requirements from the HTA body in Germany – are additional data requirements by the Federal Joint Committee justified? pp. 1-11

Jörg Ruof, Thomas Staab, Charalabos-Markos Dintsios, Jakob Schröter and Friedrich Wilhelm Schwartz

Measuring patients’ priorities using the Analytic Hierarchy Process in comparison with Best-Worst-Scaling and rating cards: methodological aspects and ranking tasks pp. 1-11

Katharina Schmidt, Ana Babac, Frédéric Pauer, Kathrin Damm and Johann Graf von der Schulenburg

Patient dumping, outlier payments, and optimal healthcare payment policy under asymmetric information pp. 1-11

Tsuyoshi Takahara

Erratum to: ‘Costs of treating cardiovascular events in Germany: a systematic literature review’ pp. 1-1

Tamara Schmid, Weiwei Xu, Shravanthi Gandra and Galin Michailov

Erratum to: ‘Costs of treating cardiovascular events in Germany: a systematic literature review’ pp. 1-1

Tamara Schmid, Weiwei Xu, Shravanthi R. Gandra and Galin V. Michailov

Erratum to: ‘A cost and performance comparison of Public Private Partnership and public hospitals in Spain’ pp. 1-1

Maria Caballer-Tarazona and David Vivas-Consuelo

Revisiting the child health-wealth nexus pp. 1-13

Adnan Fakir

Design and implementation of community engagement interventions towards healthcare quality improvement in Ghana: a methodological approach pp. 1-13

Robert Kaba Alhassan, Edward Nketiah-Amponsah and Daniel Kojo Arhinful

Structural equation modeling for decomposing rank-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health: an empirical study pp. 1-13

Roselinde Kessels and Guido Erreygers

Comment on “binge drinking and alcohol prices” pp. 1-2

Ziming Xuan, Thomas Babor, Timothy Naimi, Jason Blanchette and Frank Chaloupka

Comment on “binge drinking and alcohol prices” pp. 1-2

Ziming Xuan, Thomas F. Babor, Timothy S. Naimi, Jason G. Blanchette and Frank J. Chaloupka

Erratum to: Cost of a lymphedema treatment mandate-10 years of experience in the Commonwealth of Virginia pp. 1-2

Robert Weiss

Socioeconomic determinants of use of reproductive health services in Ghana pp. 1-15

Gordon Abekah-Nkrumah and Patience Abor

Socioeconomic determinants of use of reproductive health services in Ghana pp. 1-15

Gordon Abekah-Nkrumah and Patience Aseweh Abor

Free health care for under-fives, expectant and recent mothers? Evaluating the impact of Sierra Leone’s free health care initiative pp. 1-15

Ijeoma Edoka, Tim Ensor, Barbara McPake, Rogers Amara, Fu-Min Tseng and Joseph Edem-Hotah

The impact of health insurance programs for children: evidence from Vietnam pp. 1-15

Cuong Nguyen

Opening the black box of under-health people: the case of Spain pp. 1-6

Marta Pascual-Saez, David Cantarero-Prieto and Noelia González-Prieto