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Accounting for the Opportunity Cost of Children's Time in Economic Evaluation: Challenges and Frequently Asked Questions

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Economic evaluations carried out from a societal perspective ought to account for the opportunity cost of a range of resources, including those committed by care recipients. People's time is such a resource: it is limited, valuable and it has an opportunity cost that should be reflected in cost calculations.
Lazaros Andronis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Competing Demographic Drivers of Hospital Expenditures: Coexistence of the Red Herring and the Steepening Effects

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The fiscal sustainability of healthcare systems is increasingly strained by aging populations with two competing hypotheses dominating the literature. The Red Herring Hypothesis suggests that healthcare expenditures are driven more by proximity to death than by chronological age, while the Steepening Hypothesis examines whether expenditures ...
Malene Kallestrup‐Lamb   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health Preferences and Sorting in the City

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There are large health inequalities between neighborhoods in many cities of the world. This paper studies individuals' sorting based on health amenities and exposes an important connection between health preferences and the housing market. I estimate a neighborhood choice model using geolocated data from a health survey in New York City and ...
Manuela Puente‐Beccar
wiley   +1 more source

"Doctors are targeted and kidnapped": crimes and insecurity contribute to health problems and constrain the delivery of health services in urban settings in Nigeria. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Public Health
Orjiakor TC   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How Signals of Silence Sustain Sexual Harassment and What to Do About It

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sexual harassment has persisted for decades as an open secret within organizations, creating an ongoing challenge for Human Resource practitioners. Many employees experience or witness harassment yet say nothing. When they contemplate complaining, they are discouraged from doing so. Some still muster the courage to speak out about these abuses,
Angela L. Workman‐Stark   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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