from tHEORetically Speaking: The HealthEconomics.Com Blog at http://bit.ly/2ndpcZx on September 30, 2019 at 11:57PM The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) on Sept. 27 released a draft scoping document outlining a planned review of treatments for ulcerative colitis. Stakeholders can submit comments on the document, with the deadline for input set for 5 p.m. […]
from tHEORetically Speaking: The HealthEconomics.Com Blog at http://bit.ly/2oLLEtf on September 30, 2019 at 11:57PM A recent Health Affairs blog post remembers Donald Lindberg, who died Aug. 17, 2019. Lindberg played a key role in the development of websites such as PubMed, MedlinePlus.gov, Clinicaltrials.gov and GenBank, just to name a few. “Overall, I suggest Don’s legacy […]
from Google Alert at http://bit.ly/2o4YQZF on September 30, 2019 at 11:37PM Richard G. Frank, health economics professor in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, will speak on “The Evolution of …
from Google Alert at http://bit.ly/2nZ190B on September 30, 2019 at 11:37PM … according to Obinna Onwujekwe, a professor of health economics, policy, and pharmacoeconomics at the University of Nigeria, who has studied the …
from tHEORetically Speaking: The HealthEconomics.Com Blog at http://bit.ly/2nZ5kt9 on September 30, 2019 at 11:27PM The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released new guidance on artificial intelligence (AI) software designed to bolster clinical decision-making, FierceBiotech reports. According to the report, the agency defines clinical decision support software as a tool capable of supplying “knowledge and person-specific […]
from RAND Research Topic: Health and Health Care at http://bit.ly/2nWRWps on September 30, 2019 at 11:15PM In this congressional briefing, Bryce Pardo and Beau Kilmer discuss factors that have contributed to the rise of synthetic opioids like fentanyl in the U.S. What do policymakers need to consider in their efforts to address this threat in […]
from Google Alert at http://bit.ly/2nba26Y on September 30, 2019 at 09:31PM And even then, I felt it," said Asche, a health economist by training. The financial bruising is linked to billions of dollars in out-of-pocket costs picked up …
from CCHE General Updates Archive Feed at http://bit.ly/2nXwFMj on September 30, 2019 at 09:00PM We are pleased to welcome Mark Stabile this Friday October 4th. Canadian Centre for Health Economics View this email in your browser Dear All, For this week’s CCHE Health Economics Series, we are pleased to welcome Mark Stabile this Friday October […]
from Google Alert at http://bit.ly/2oAYiuT on September 30, 2019 at 08:17PM Commenting on the findings for Medscape Medical News, Michaël Schwarzinger, MD, PhD, of the Translational Health Economics Network (THEN) in …
from Econsalut at http://bit.ly/2nWhCm3 on September 30, 2019 at 07:16PM Digital Economics If you want to get a description of what digital economics represents, this article in JEL is the one you have to read. Digital economics explores how standard economic models… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, […]
from The Health Care Blog at http://bit.ly/2n90yt3 on September 30, 2019 at 06:16PM Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I catch up on loads of news in health tech. In this episode, Jess asks me about Amazon Care, doing telehealth, house calls, urgent care, drug delivery for their employees—could it change health […]
from The Health Care Blog at http://bit.ly/2mrkt6g on September 30, 2019 at 06:09PM By JOE FLOWER The system is unstable. We are already seeing the precursor waves of massive and multiple disturbances to come. Disruption at key leverage points, new entrants, shifting public awareness and serious political competition cast omens and signs of a highly […]
from CCHE General Updates Archive Feed at http://bit.ly/2mlfHHg on September 30, 2019 at 05:59PM We are pleased to welcome Mark Stabile this Friday October 4th. Canadian Centre for Health Economics View this email in your browser Dear All, For this week’s CCHE Health Economics Series, we are pleased to welcome Mark Stabile this Friday October […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2mYWziR on September 30, 2019 at 04:56PM Has massive distribution of insecticide-treated-nets contributed to the reduction in infant mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past 15 years? Using large household surveys collected in 16 countries and exploiting the spatial correlation in distribution campaigns, we estimate the relationship between the diffusion of […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2n8m80L on September 30, 2019 at 04:56PM Nearly 40,000 people in the U.S. die from firearm-related causes annually. Of these, about 1% are intentionally shot and killed while at work; work-related homicides account for about 10% of all workplace fatalities. While firearm policies have remained essentially unchanged at the national level, […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2nRWaPg on September 30, 2019 at 04:56PM Grim national statistics about the U.S. opioid crisis are increasingly well known to the American public. Far less well known is that U.S. war veterans are at ground zero of the epidemic, facing an overdose rate twice that of civilians. Post-9/11 deployments to Afghanistan […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2mZRPtg on September 30, 2019 at 04:56PM Primary care physicians (PCPs) provide frontline health care to patients in the U.S.; however, it is unclear how their practice styles affect patient care. In this paper, we estimate the long-lasting effects of PCP practice styles on patient health care utilization by focusing on […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2mWA8L7 on September 30, 2019 at 04:56PM This paper characterizes the link between ambient temperatures and a broad set of mental health outcomes. We find that higher temperatures increase emergency department visits for mental illness, suicides, and self-reported days of poor mental health. Specifically, cold temperatures reduce negative mental health outcomes […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2ml5b2K on September 30, 2019 at 04:56PM Exploiting recent concentration of flight patterns under a new Federal Aviation Administration policy (called NextGen), we examine the impact of exposure to excessive noise levels on birth outcomes. Using birth records that include mothers’ home addresses to measure airport proximity, we find the risk […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2ml5pH8 on September 30, 2019 at 04:56PM We develop a practical method for estimating and decomposing conditional average treatment effects using locally-weighted regressions. We illustrate with an application to the smoking ban in England using a regression discontinuity design, based on Health Survey for England data. We estimate average treatment effects […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2mpZJMa on September 30, 2019 at 04:56PM In this paper, we examine whether the expansion of health insurance coverage brought on by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), led to a decline in absenteeism among overweight and obese individuals. We use data from the National Health Insurance […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2n83Zjy on September 30, 2019 at 04:56PM States are increasingly resorting to raising the minimum wage to boost the earnings of those at the bottom of the income distribution. In this paper, we examine the effects of minimum wage increases on the health of the children of immigrants. Their parents are […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2o0UJOf on September 30, 2019 at 04:56PM Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing public health threat, limiting the ability of health care systems to prevent and treat infections and save lives. In parallel, global antibiotic development pipelines are weak. Various R&D incentives have been proposed to address the challenges associated to […]
from Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2nTvayI on September 30, 2019 at 04:56PM We examine the extent to which recent declines in child mortality and fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa can be attributed to insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs). Exploiting the rapid increase in ITNs since the mid-2000s, we employ a difference-in-differences estimation strategy to identify the causal effect […]
from Google Alert at http://bit.ly/2n9ZVPN on September 30, 2019 at 04:56PM Speaking at the briefing on Monday, Ngcobo said a panel of experts in the areas of law and health economics found that the SA market had "high and …
from DIRUM Instruments at http://bit.ly/2mgQQ7o on September 30, 2019 at 04:53PM Gemma Shields
from tHEORetically Speaking: The HealthEconomics.Com Blog at http://bit.ly/2nSHjnH on September 30, 2019 at 03:25PM A report from the House Ways & Means Committee suggests that U.S. patients pay, on average, about four times more for some drugs than 11 similarly-developed countries. The report, “A Painful Pill to Swallow: U.S. vs. International Prescription Drug Prices,” was […]
from Google Alert at http://bit.ly/2nOxlUd on September 30, 2019 at 03:14PM … but the impact on eligible noncitizens “may reflect the administration’s more aggressive stance on immigration,” Joseph Antos, a health economist at …
from Centre for Health Economics – Latest news at http://bit.ly/2n7D33p on September 30, 2019 at 02:56PM CHE hosted an afternoon workshop for the fifth annual China National Health Development Research Centre (CNHDRC) Health Policy Research and Evaluation Training Programme on 20 September 2019
from tHEORetically Speaking: The HealthEconomics.Com Blog at http://bit.ly/2mhWDJV on September 30, 2019 at 02:54PM Dan Leonard, National Pharmaceutical Council president and CEO, in a recent commentary published on Pharmacy Times outlines some areas where the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) could improve its value assessment framework. The NPC, Lenoard writes, submitted feedback to […]
from Google Alert at http://bit.ly/2oCquO9 on September 30, 2019 at 01:44PM (The author is a Senior Lecturer of Livestock/Animal Health Economics at the University of Zambia, School of Veterinary Medicine.
from Market Design at http://bit.ly/2nU4b6k on September 30, 2019 at 01:15PM From the Atlantic: A Step Toward Blowing Up the Presidential-Voting SystemMaine’s adoption of ranked-choice voting for the 2020 general election could upend a close race for the White House. "The 2016 presidential election pitted the two most disliked candidates in the history of public […]
from The Academic Health Economists’ Blo… at http://bit.ly/2nPI3tL on September 30, 2019 at 12:02PM Every Monday our authors provide a round-up of some of the most recently published peer reviewed articles from the field. We don’t cover everything, or even what’s most important – just a few papers that have interested the author. Visit our […]
from Health Policy at http://bit.ly/2n3O6ut on September 30, 2019 at 11:27AM Publication date: Available online 30 September 2019 Source: Health Policy Author(s): Paulina Polak, Maria Świątkiewicz-Mośny, Aleksandra Wagner Abstract This article analyzes the outcomes of the key healthcare reforms undertaken in Poland and assesses how successful they have been. Contrary to the governmental perspective on […]
from Google Alert at http://bit.ly/2nKNOZI on September 30, 2019 at 10:11AM But while the debate over the economics of health care rages on, one thing remains clear: nearly 33 percent of Americans report that they do not seek …
from Google Alert at http://bit.ly/2m9eeDM on September 30, 2019 at 08:47AM … its walk-in MinuteClinic, noted Katherine Baicker, a health economist and dean of the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.
from PharmacoEconomics at http://bit.ly/2nLnJK1 on September 30, 2019 at 07:21AM Abstract Background Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a progressive condition that leads to irreversible damage to the kidneys and is associated with an increased incidence of cardiovascular events and mortality. As novel interventions become available, estimates of economic and clinical outcomes are needed to guide […]
from Google Alert at http://bit.ly/2ovZ4JN on September 30, 2019 at 07:20AM … data collection tools; and developing and presenting technical or analytical reports on health policy, health services research, or health economics.
from Health Economics and Decision Science Blog @ ScHARR at http://bit.ly/2m7UZKO on September 30, 2019 at 07:00AM It’s the start of the 2019 semester and we thought it would be useful to share some of the modules we cover at The University of Sheffield as part of our teaching within HEDS. International Health Technology Assessment, […]
from Healthcare Economist at http://bit.ly/2mKcS2R on September 30, 2019 at 06:18AM Most people who spend time in health care are aware of the opioid crisis. But how bad is it really? The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation provides a number of interactive graphs to quantitatively describe how the opioid crisis has evolved […]
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