A general framework for optimising cost-effectiveness of pandemic response under partial intervention measures [PDF]
Scientific Reports 12, 19482 (2022), 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic created enormous public health and socioeconomic challenges. The health effects of vaccination and non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were often contrasted with significant social and economic costs. We describe a general framework aimed to derive adaptive cost-effective interventions, adequate for both recent and emerging ...
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Exploring the Relationship Between COVID-19 Induced Economic Downturn and Women's Nutritional Health Disparities [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 This study explores how the COVID-19 pandemic's economic impact has exacerbated nutritional health disparities among women. It sought to understand the effects of economic challenges on women's dietary choices and access to nutritious food across different socioeconomic groups.
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The welfare effects of nonlinear health dynamics [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 We generate a continuous measure of health to estimate a non-parametric model of health dynamics, showing that adverse health shocks are highly persistent when suffered by people in poor health. Canonical models cannot account for this pattern.
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Short-Run Health Consequences of Retirement and Pension Benefits: Evidence from China [PDF]
Forum for Health Economics & Policy 21 (2): 1-27 (2019), 2020 This paper examines the impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) in China. Exploiting the staggered implementation of an NRPS policy expansion that began in 2009, we use a difference-in-difference approach to study the effects of the introduction of pension benefits on the health status, health behaviors, and healthcare utilization of rural ...
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Household and individual economic responses to different health shocks: The role of medical innovations [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 This study provides new evidence regarding the extent to which medical care mitigates the economic consequences of various health shocks for the individual and a wider family. To obtain causal effects, I focus on the role of medical scientific discoveries and leverage the longitudinal dimension of unique administrative data for Sweden.
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Toward Development of a New Health Economic Evaluation Definition [PDF]
Journal of Economics Bibliography, 2016, (3)4, pp. 590-601, 2016 Economic evaluation is a dynamically advancing knowledge area of health economics. It has been conceived to provide evidence for allocating scarce resources to gain the best value for money. The problem of efficiency of investments becomes even more crucial with advances in modern medicine and public health which bring about both improved patient ...
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A Two-stage Bayesian Model for Assessing the Geography of Racialized Economic Segregation and Premature Mortality Across US Counties [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Racialized economic segregation, a key metric that simultaneously accounts for spatial, social and income polarization, has been linked to adverse health outcomes, including morbidity and mortality; however, statistical methods for measuring the association between racialized economic segregation and health outcomes are not well-developed and are ...
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Evaluación del efecto del PAMI en la cobertura en salud de los adultos mayores en Argentina [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 We conducted regression discontinuity design models in order to evaluate changes in access to healthcare services and financial protection, using as a natural experiment the age required to retire in Argentina, the moment in which people are able to enroll in the free social health insurance called PAMI.
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Spatial Discrete Choice and Spatial Limited Dependent Variable Models: a review with an emphasis on the use in Regional Health Economics [PDF]
Journal of Economic Survey 2019, 2013 Despite spatial econometrics is now considered a consolidated discipline, only in recent years we have experienced an increasing attention to the possibility of applying it to the field of discrete choices (e.g. Smirnov, 2010 for a recent review) and limited dependent variable models.
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Optimal Trade-Off Between Economic Activity and Health During an Epidemic [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 This paper considers a simple model where a social planner can influence the spread-intensity of an infection wave, and, consequently, also the economic activity and population health, through a single parameter. Population health is assumed to only be negatively affected when the number of simultaneously infected exceeds health care capacity. The main
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