from Market Design at http://bit.ly/2uXi3za on August 21, 2017 at 08:10AM The Israeli Ministry of Health has a number of interesting web pages concerning organ transplantation. Here is the one on the compensation of living donors for related expenses:Compensating Live Organ Donors The compensation is given to donors when the donation and transplant surgery is […]
from Health Economics and Decision Science Blog @ ScHARR at http://bit.ly/2xhNzo6 on August 21, 2017 at 07:00AM …based on the ScHARR-TAG report by Sarah Davis, Jean Sanderson, John Stevens, Edward Goka, Andrew Rawdin, Susi, Sadler, Ruth Wong, Fiona Campbell, Matt Stevenson and Mark Strong. From the NICE website: “NICE has published new guidance on the […]
from Healthcare Economist at http://bit.ly/2uXemtp on August 21, 2017 at 05:04AM Initiatives such as high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) aim to transfer risk form insurers to patients. The rationale behind this risk transfer is that when patients are in control of more funds, there will be less moral hazard and patients will use health care resources […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2wuwgDd on August 20, 2017 at 08:15PM Our study investigates the cointegration relationship between suicides and unemployment in South Africa using annual data collected between 1996 and 2015 applied to the ARDL model. Furthermore, our empirical analysis is gender and age specific in the sense that the suicide data is disintegrated […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2v4oMDz on August 20, 2017 at 08:15PM Each year the UK records 25,000 or more excess winter deaths, primarily among the elderly. A key policy response is the “Winter Fuel Payment†(WFP), a labelled but unconditional cash transfer to older households. The WFP has been shown to raise fuel spending among […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2wubiVe on August 20, 2017 at 08:15PM The periodic evaluation of health care services is a primary concern for many institutions. In this work, we focus on nursing home services with the aim to produce a ranking of a set of nursing homes based on their capability to improve – or […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2v4m28Z on August 20, 2017 at 08:15PM Introduction – Child welfare, especially issues bordering on child health, continues to be one of the core issues of development. Over the years, appreciable progress has been made, but the levels are still not good enough. Objective – This paper investigates the effects of […]
