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Analyzing the effects of insuring health risks : on the trade-off between short run insurance benefits vs. long run incentive costs [PDF]

, 2012
This paper constructs a dynamic model of health insurance to evaluate the short- and long run effects of policies that prevent firms from conditioning wages on health conditions of their workers, and that prevent health insurance companies from charging ...
Cole, Harold Linh, Kim, Soojin, Krueger, Dirk   +2 more
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health state utility values and associated complication-related difference in community-based adults with type 2 diabetes in Nanjing China: a cross-sectional study

Frontiers in Medicine
ObjectivesThis study aimed to derive health state utility values (HSUVs) in community-based adults with type 2 diabetes from Nanjing, China, and to examine the differences associated with diabetes-related complications.MethodsA cross-sectional study ...
Qiaoyu Huang, Hui Xie, Zhiyong Wang, Zhuanzhuan Fan, Simeng Sun, Ting Zhang, Huafeng Yang, Ya Shen   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of Societal Health Utility of Facial Palsy and Facial Reanimation

JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery, 2018
Importance The severity of a health state may be quantified using health utility measures. The utility of flaccid unilateral facial paralysis and unilateral moderate to severe postparalytic facial nerve syndrome with synkinesis may be challenging to ...
C. Faris, Oren E S Tessler, Alyssa Heiser, T. Hadlock, Nate Jowett   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Utility estimations of different health states of patients with type I, II, and III spinal muscular atrophy in China: A mixed approach study with patient and proxy-reported data

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
IntroductionSpinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare autosomal-recessive neuromuscular disease. Health state utility values (HSUV) are used in health economic evaluation regarding the desirability of health outcomes such as a certain health state or ...
Jiahao Hu, Lin Zhu, Han Bao, Yuhan Liu, Huanping Xing, Qi Kang, Chunlin Jin   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quality of life and health-related utility after trans-oral surgery for head and neck cancers

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2021
Purpose The purpose of this study was to assess utility coefficients of health states following two minimally invasive surgical approaches for head and neck cancer, namely trans-oral robotic surgery and trans-oral laser microsurgery.
Enea Parimbelli, Christian Simon, Federico Soldati, Lorry Duchoud, Gian Luca Armas, John R. de Almeida, Silvana Quaglini   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quality of life measures and health utility values among dry eye subgroups

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2018
BackgroundTo determine whether quality of life (QOL) and health utility are affected to the same extent among dry eye (DE) patients with short tear film break-up time dry eye (TBUT-DE) with minimal clinical signs were as severe as aqueous-deficient dry ...
C. Shigeyasu, M. Yamada, M. Kawashima, Kazuhisa Suwaki, M. Uchino, Y. Hiratsuka, N. Yokoi, K. Tsubota   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Inpatient Food Insecurity and Pediatric Hematology Oncology Hospitalization Outcomes

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children with cancer and blood disorders are at risk for food insecurity (FI). We aimed to describe the association of inpatient food insecurity (IFI) and hospitalization outcomes among patients admitted to the pediatric hematology oncology service. Of 325 caregivers screened for IFI, 60 (18.6%) screened positive.
Joanna M. Robles, Greg Russell, Leila H. DeWitt, Kimberly Montez, Callie L. Brown   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health‐Related Quality of Life and Symptom Severity Among Patients With PIK3CA‐Related Overgrowth Spectrum: A Mixed‐Methods Study to Understand Real‐World Experience With Alpelisib Treatment

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background PIK3CA‐related overgrowth spectrum (PROS) includes several rare overgrowth disorders resulting from somatic gain‐of‐function mutations in PIK3CA. Despite treatment advances, including the recent approval of alpelisib for PROS in the United States, literature detailing the patient experience with PROS is limited.
Vamsi Bollu, Kaitlin LaGasse, Cory D. Saucier, Kimberly Raymond, Miranda Lauher‐Charest, Lauren Crowder, Beilei Cai, Mary Lisha Paul, Denise Adams   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source