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The Citizens' Distributional Preferences for Health Care Resource Allocations: The Non‐Negligible Role of Option Value

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The stated preference literature on equity in health aims to enhance our understanding of the public's preferences for allocation of health resources to promote fairness and justice in the distribution of healthcare. This paper explores how different elicitation approaches impact on the elicited distributional preferences in the context of ...
Lise Desireé Hansen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Simple Measure of Catastrophic Health Expenditures

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we propose a simple Watts‐type measure of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) which is an adaptation of the classic Watts poverty measure. The appeal of the proposed measure stems from the fact that it is both additively decomposable (i.e., it provides information on the contributions of the various population subgroups of ...
Tomson Ogwang, Germano Mwabu
wiley   +1 more source

Digitalization of Access to Primary Care: Is There an Equity‐Efficiency Trade‐Off?

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the English National Health Service, most patients can use an online platform to send a written request to the practice, in addition to calling or visiting the practice in person. However, there are concerns that the availability of an online access route to primary care can adversely impact healthcare provision for older or lower ...
Daniela Rodrigues   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Behavioral Adaptation to Improved Environmental Quality: Evidence From a Sanitation Intervention

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates behavioral adaptation to local improvements in environmental quality. Using exogenous variation in village sanitation coverage generated by the randomised allocation of financial incentives to latrine construction in Lao PDR, we find that the generalized adoption of improved sanitation led to significant reductions in ...
Lisa Cameron   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Child Disability on Parental Outcomes: Evidence From Sweden

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Parents of children with disabilities may face higher labor‐market penalties given the extra care and support required. Using Swedish administrative data, we focus on first‐born children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) to estimate impacts on parental labor‐market outcomes.
Derek Asuman   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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