from THCB at http://bit.ly/2aqeSVs on July 31, 2016 at 01:26PM By SAURABH JHA, MD To paraphrase Tolstoy, all competence is alike, but every incompetence is incompetence in its own way. Every time I think I’ve seen the horizon of incompetence, I’m dealt a surprise. The sun never sets on incompetence. In healthcare, incompetence can be […]
from Applied Health Economics and Health Policy at http://bit.ly/2anw659 on July 31, 2016 at 08:45AM Abstract Background For more than three decades, the number and influence of economic evaluations of healthcare interventions have been increasing and gaining attention from a policy level. However, concerns about the credibility of these studies exist, particularly in studies from […]
from Applied Health Economics and Health Policy at http://bit.ly/2amwv4K on July 31, 2016 at 08:45AM Abstract Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) poses major challenges for health care systems. Previous studies suggest that telemonitoring could be effective in preventing hospitalisations and hence reduce costs. Objective The aim was to evaluate whether telemonitoring interventions for COPD […]
from Market Design at http://bit.ly/2aGhOPF on July 31, 2016 at 06:49AM The NY Times has the story: How Scalpers Make Their Millions With ‘Hamilton’ "For most of May, the median price of a ticket on the secondary market was around $850. Between the Tonys and the July 9 performances, it pushed toward $1,600. Before Mr. Miranda’s […]
from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/2aj2TqM on July 31, 2016 at 06:03AM Help me learn new things! – Oceanography This post is part of a series in which I’m dedicating a month to learning about twelve new things this year. The full schedule can be found here. This is month seven. (tl;dr at the bottom of […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2aGVxhE on July 30, 2016 at 02:10PM The authors examined physicians’ perspectives on factors that support or hinder evidence-based decisions and the implications for delivery systems, payers, and policymakers.
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2aEWiLl on July 30, 2016 at 02:10PM The results of this secondary data analysis simulating a QRIS validation using six large early care and education datasets demonstrate several issues that should be considered when constructing, validating, and making changes to existing quality ratings.
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2aGV3I6 on July 30, 2016 at 02:10PM This article describes the reliability of the instruments embedded in a mental health screening instrument designed to detect risky drinking, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder among members of the Armed Forces.
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2aEXazl on July 30, 2016 at 02:10PM Teen PEP, an in-school, peer-to-peer sexual health promotion program that combines peer-led interactive workshops and peer-driven school-wide initiatives in an effort to reduce sexual risk behaviors and associated outcomes among high school students.
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2aGVbr9 on July 30, 2016 at 02:10PM The epidemiological literature discusses two contrary hypotheses that describe life course variations in the income-to-health relationship: the cumulative advantage and the age as leveller hypothesis. Since related micro level studies are criticised due to an income-rank effect, this study transfers the investigation of both […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2aEWb2j on July 30, 2016 at 02:10PM Changes in health status may affect not just the individuals who experience such changes, but also their family members. For example, if the main earner in a family loses his or her ability to generate income due to a health shock, it invariably affects […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2aGVm5P on July 30, 2016 at 02:10PM The Great Recession has renewed interest in whether and how health responds to macroeconomic changes. Ireland provides a convenient natural experiment to examine this since a period of sustained high growth and low unemployment – the so-called Celtic Tiger period- gave way to a […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2aEWcTZ on July 30, 2016 at 02:10PM Access to antiretroviral treatment has expanded rapidly in South Africa, making it the country in the world with the largest treatment program. As antiretroviral treatment coverage continues to rise in resource-constrained settings, effective community-based adherence support interventions are of central importance in ensuring the […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2aGVhzb on July 30, 2016 at 02:10PM We develop an overlapping generations model of growth, in which agents differ through their ability to procreate. Based on epidemiological evidence, we assume that pollution is a cause of this health heterogeneity, affecting sperm quality. Nevertheless, agents with impaired fertility may incur health treatments […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2aEWIRX on July 30, 2016 at 02:10PM We quantify the effects of population aging on the US healthcare system. Our analysis is based on a stochastic general equilibrium overlapping generations model of endogenous health accumulation calibrated to match pre-2010 U.S. data. We find that population aging not only leads to large […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2aGUT3u on July 30, 2016 at 02:10PM An aggregable family of multidimensional concentration indices is characterized, in order to be consistent with a property of exogenous risk factors, i.e. health risks for which agents are not responsible for. The family of concentration indices (or achievement indices by duality) lies in the […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2aEW6f1 on July 30, 2016 at 02:10PM Increased job effort can raise productivity and income but put workers at increased risk of illness and injury. We combine Danish data on individuals’ health with Danish matched worker-firm data to understand how rising exports affect individual workers’ effort, injury, and illness. We find […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2aGV3YK on July 30, 2016 at 02:10PM The WHO has recently debated whether to reaffirm its long-standing recommendation of mass drug administration (MDA) in areas with more than 20% prevalence of soil-transmitted helminths (hookworm, whipworm, and roundworm). There is consensus that the relevant deworming drugs are safe and effective, so the […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2aEWVVg on July 30, 2016 at 02:10PM In this paper, we estimate the relationship between cyclical changes in aggregate labor market opportunities and child health outcomes. In addition to using state unemployment rates to proxy for labor market conditions, as is common in the existing literature, we construct predicted employment growth […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2aGUnCM on July 30, 2016 at 02:10PM Very little is known about youth health risk behaviors such as drug and alcohol use and sexual activity in the Middle East and North Africa, and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories specifically. This lack of information, together with a lack of open discussion of […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2aEWjP7 on July 30, 2016 at 02:10PM This paper examines developments in childhood and adolescent obesity in Ireland using two waves of the Growing Up in Ireland survey. Obesity appears to level off between the two waves though there is tentative evidence that the socioeconomic gradient, measured with respect to maternal […]
from THCB at http://bit.ly/2akqwTX on July 30, 2016 at 11:11AM By KIP SULLIVAN The latest report on one of CMS’s “patient-centered medical home” (PCMH) demonstrations is more bad news for the “medical home” movement. According to the report, the second-year evaluation of Multi-Payer Advanced Primary Care Practice (MAPCP) Demonstration released by CMS on May 11, […]
from Health and Quality of Life Outcomes at http://bit.ly/2aCFEdm on July 30, 2016 at 09:21AM Hodgkin Lymphoma (HL) is highly curable with well-established treatment regimens; however, the impact on patient’s health-related quality of life (HRQL) from diagnosis through survivorship is unclear. This sys…
from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/2a7kR2q on July 30, 2016 at 08:07AM Via Tom Gara who wrote, “This is definitely the deepest and most metaphysical question posed by NYC subway ticket machines.” @afrakt
from Market Design at http://bit.ly/2aG40Bv on July 30, 2016 at 06:43AM The NY Times has the story: China’s Cheating Husbands Fuel an Industry of ‘Mistress Dispellers’ "Mistress-dispelling services, increasingly common in China’s larger cities, specialize in ending affairs between married men and their extramarital lovers. "Typically hired by a scorned wife, they coach women on how […]
from Value in Health at http://bit.ly/2aEtmCK on July 30, 2016 at 06:27AM Publication date: Source:Value in Health Author(s): Marziyeh Doostfatemeh, Seyyed Mohammad Taghi Ayatollah, Peyman Jafari
from Value in Health at http://bit.ly/2ahbmLc on July 30, 2016 at 06:27AM Publication date: Source:Value in Health Author(s): Huang-Tz Ou, Chen-Yi Yang, Jung-Der Wang, Jing-Shiang Hwang, Jin-Shang Wu
from International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care at http://bit.ly/2aG0ZkO on July 30, 2016 at 06:12AM Research Articles Norman Daniels, Gert Jan van der Wilt, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Volume 32 Issue 1-2, pp 10-15 Abstract
from International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care at http://bit.ly/2aE4MSP on July 30, 2016 at 06:12AM Research Articles Francesc Saigi-Rubió, Ana Jiménez-Zarco, Joan Torrent-Sellens, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Volume 32 Issue 1-2, pp 29-36 Abstract
from International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care at http://bit.ly/2aG1efE on July 30, 2016 at 06:12AM Research Articles Mitchel van Eeden, Caroline M. van Heugten, Ghislaine A.P.G. van Mastrigt, Silvia M.A.A. Evers, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Volume 32 Issue 1-2, pp 16-28 Abstract
from International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care at http://bit.ly/2aE487S on July 30, 2016 at 06:12AM Editorial Wija Oortwijn, Gert Jan van der Wilt, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Volume 32 Issue 1-2, pp 1-2 Abstract
from International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care at http://bit.ly/2aG0SWx on July 30, 2016 at 06:12AM Research Articles Leander R. Buisman, Maureen P.M.H. Rutten-van Mölken, Douwe Postmus, Jolanda J. Luime, Carin A. Uyl-de Groot, William K. Redekop, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Volume 32 Issue 1-2, pp 46-53 Abstract
from International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care at http://bit.ly/2aE4rzK on July 30, 2016 at 06:12AM Research Articles Oyinlola Oyebode, Hannah Patrick, Alexander Walker, Bruce Campbell, John Powell, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Volume 32 Issue 1-2, pp 61-68 Abstract
from International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care at http://bit.ly/2aG0Aik on July 30, 2016 at 06:12AM Research Articles Monica Teng, Ai Leng Khoo, Ying Jiao Zhao, Liang Lin, Boon Peng Lim, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Volume 32 Issue 1-2, pp 81-87 Abstract
from International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care at http://bit.ly/2aE4f3f on July 30, 2016 at 06:12AM Research Articles Alina Brandes, Larissa Schwarzkopf, Wolf H. Rogowski, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Volume 32 Issue 1-2, pp 69-77 Abstract
from International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care at http://bit.ly/2aG1rzg on July 30, 2016 at 06:12AM Research Articles Henry S. Richardson, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Volume 32 Issue 1-2, pp 3-9 Abstract
from International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care at http://bit.ly/2aE4efS on July 30, 2016 at 06:12AM Research Articles Anne-Isabelle Poullié, Magali Cognet, Aline Gauthier, Marine Clementz, Sylvain Druais, Hans-Martin Späth, Lionel Perrier, Oliver Scemama, Catherine Rumeau Pichon, Jean-Luc Harousseau, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Volume 32 Issue 1-2, pp 37-45 Abstract
from International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care at http://bit.ly/2aG1iMn on July 30, 2016 at 06:12AM Research Articles Anna Nachtnebel, Johanna Breuer, Wolfgang Willenbacher, Anna Bucsics, Peter Krippl, Claudia Wild, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Volume 32 Issue 1-2, pp 54-60 Abstract
from International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care at http://bit.ly/2aE58ss on July 30, 2016 at 06:12AM Research Articles Lyazzat Kosherbayeva, David Hailey, Kural Kurakbaev, Aleksey Tsoy, Ormanbek Zhuzzhanov, Abilay Donbay, Ainur Kumar, Kamalzhan Nadyrov, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Volume 32 Issue 1-2, pp 78-80 Abstract
from International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care at http://bit.ly/2aG0Z48 on July 30, 2016 at 06:12AM Miscellaneous International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Volume 32 Issue 1-2, pp f1-f3 Abstract
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