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Occupational Licensing and Psychologist Supply

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does reducing interstate licensing barriers increase the supply of mental health providers? We study this question using the U.S. Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PSYPACT), which allows psychologists to practice across state lines via telemedicine without obtaining additional state licenses.
Daniel Goetz
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of a Partial Ban on Rx‐Rebates in Germany

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate patients' price sensitivity for prescription (Rx) drugs with regards to patronizing online or brick‐and‐mortar pharmacies. In doing so, we exploit a policy change in Germany that prohibited online pharmacies from granting rebates to one part of the population, the members of the statutory health insurance scheme.
Maximilian M. Gail, Georg Götz, Daniel Herold, Jan T. Schäfer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strengthening financial protection through multitiered health coverage: evidence from 667 055 low-income households in China

BMJ Global Health
Introduction Low-income households face disproportionate out-of-pocket hardship when accessing healthcare, undermining equity and universal health coverage.
Zhongliang Zhou, Yangling Ren, Zhichao Wang, Yan Zhuang, Guanping Liu, Xiaohui Zhai, Ruifeng Cui   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the Estimands and Estimates of Hospitalization Rates in Health Economics and Clinical Medicine

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Even though data on hospital admissions are widely used in health research, hospitalization‐related estimands measured using these data are not always clearly conceptualized. Consequently, estimators of these quantities can have unclear rationales and undesirable properties.
Aditya Jain, Gil Peled, Filip Obradović, Federico Crippa, Yeshaya Nussbaum, Michael Gmeiner, Daniela P. Ladner, Charles F. Manski   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring the impact of Voluntary Health Insurance on out of pocket costs and socioeconomic-related inequality: methodological challenges and potential solutions with an application to Vietnam [PDF]

, 2009
Aims: This study has three aims: 1) to measure the impact of the Vietnamese Voluntary Health Insurance (VHI) programme on out-of-pocket (OOP) costs of health care after correcting for care-seeking and insurance-seeking self-selection biases; 2) to ...
Ali, Shehzad Inayat
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Do Patients Value the Service Provided by Physicians Who Overbill? A Willingness‐to‐Pay Study Using French Survey Data

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Outpatient specialist physicians in France can work either in the regulated sector, where they charge the regulated fee, or in the unregulated sector, where they set their own fees above the regulated fee. This context provides a unique opportunity to estimate the extent to which patients value services provided under balance billing.
Karine Lamiraud, Radu Vranceanu
wiley   +1 more source

On the Fuzzy Boundaries between Public and Private in Health Care Organization and Funding Systems [PDF]

The paper proposes a survey of health care organization and funding systems in order to underline and discuss, in this specific field of social assistance, the combination public versus private provision and production of services.
Alessandro Petretto
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Cardiovascular disease incidence and cancer risk in two large European prospective cohorts

International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
What's New? Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer share risk factors and biological mechanisms, raising questions about potential associations between the two, particularly regarding CVD duration and cancer onset. Whether CVD influences subsequent cancer risk, however, remains inconclusive.
Emma Fontvieille, Vivian Viallon, Laia Peruchet‐Noray, Quan Gan, N. Charlotte Onland‐Moret, Yvonne Koop, Anne Tjønneland, Nicola Patricia Bondonno, Verena Katzke, Rudolf Kaaks, Matthias B. Schulze, Catarina Schiborn, Calogero Saieva, Vittorio Simeon, Claudia Agnoli, Rosario Tumino, Fulvio Ricceri, Leila Luján‐Barroso, Maria‐José Sánchez, Conchi Moreno‐Iribas, Konstantinos K. Tsilidis, Marc J. Gunter, Adam Butterworth, Elio Riboli, Heinz Freisling, Pietro Ferrari   +25 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association of Childhood Acute Leukemia With Autoimmune Diseases

International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
A possible link exists between various pediatric autoimmune diseases (AIDs) and increased risk of childhood leukemia. Although immune dysregulation is a key feature of these conditions, the connection between them remains unclear. In this study, using cancer registry data in Finland, the authors examined associations between AIDs and childhood acute ...
Ida Pellikka, Julia Ventelä, Anssi Auvinen, Olli Lohi, Atte Nikkilä   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medical insurance, labor supply, and anti‐poverty initiatives: Micro‐evidence from China

International Studies of Economics
The high cost of medical care and its association with poverty have given rise to a growing concern for developing countries, but how insurance plans affect household income and alleviate poverty has been rarely discussed.
Li Su, Mingxiao Sha, Ruixue Liu
doaj   +1 more source