Am I unreasonable?

from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/1w6Gi7V on November 30, 2014 at 02:57PM Before the Supreme Court granted King v. Burwell, the Journal on Health Politics, Policy and Law invited me to write a counterpoint to an essay by Jonathan Adler and Michael Cannon, two of the architects of the litigation. I’m pleased to report that […]

Health care costs attributable to overweight calculated in a standardized way for three European countries

from Latest Results for The European Journal of Health Economics at http://bit.ly/1uSoo2e on November 29, 2014 Abstract This article presents a tool to calculate health care costs attributable to overweight in a comparable and standardized way. The purpose is to describe the methodological principles of the tool and to put it into use by calculating […]

The direct and indirect cost of diabetes in Italy: a prevalence probabilistic approach

from Latest Results for The European Journal of Health Economics at http://bit.ly/1tw14XA on November 27, 2014 Abstract Introduction Diabetes mellitus is a chronic degenerative disease associated with a high risk of chronic complications and comorbidities. However, very few data are available on the associated cost. The objective of this study is to identify the available […]

Asia/Pacific countries need to improve affordable access to healthcare, says OECD

from OECD.org – Health policies and data at http://bit.ly/11xwuq5 on November 27, 2014 at 02:00AM Countries in the Asia/Pacific region need to step up their efforts to give more people access to affordable, quality health care. Too many people, especially women, cannot get the medical treatment they need due to high costs, difficulties in getting […]

Using artefactual field and lab experiments to investigate how fee-for-service and capitation affect medical service provision

from Skriftserie at http://bit.ly/15CViiQ on November 26, 2014 at 01:28PM HERO WP 2014/03: Authors: Jeannette Brosig-Koch, University of Duisburg-Essen and Health Economics Research Center, Heike Hennig-Schmidt, University of Bonn and University of Oslo, Nadja Kairies-Schwarz, University of Duisburg-Essen and Health Economics Research Center and Daniel Wiesen, University of Cologne and University of Oslo.

BETTER HEALTH WITH MORE FRIENDS: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN PRODUCING HEALTH

from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/1vR3NSr on November 27, 2014 at 07:23AM This paper estimates the effect of an individual’s number of friends on own health outcomes. The identification strategy exploits the panel structure of the friendship data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to estimate individual fixed effects in the likelihood of friendship […]

Upshot: Delayed care

from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/15wc4QF on November 26, 2014 at 12:00PM The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2014, The New York Times Company). I thank Daniel Liebman for his assistance tracking down some evidence for an early draft of this post. One concern about the Affordable Care Act is that as more Americans get health insurance […]

BENEFITS OF MOBILE REPORTING SYSTEMS IN SOCIAL HOME CARE: THE CASE OF SEVEN SWEDISH MUNICIPALITIES

from International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care – FirstView Article(s) at http://bit.ly/11ucLYz on November 26, 2014 at 09:38AM Research ArticlesShengnan Han, Gustaf Juell-Skielse, Åsa Smedberg, Parisa Aasi, Anders G. Nilsson International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, FirstView Article(s), 7 pages Abstract