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EQ-5D-5L Portuguese population norms
ConclusionsThe EQ-5D-5L Portuguese population norms obtained can be used as reference scores. These norms are consistent with other countries ’ population norms. The findings facilitate clinical, economic, and policy decision-making processes and provide a fuller understanding of the Portuguese population’s health-related quality of life. (Source: The European Journal of Health Economics)
Source: The European Journal of Health Economics - January 11, 2023 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Driving time drives the hospital choice: choice models for pelvic organ prolapse surgery in Italy
ConclusionTravel times were the main determinants of hospital choice. Other quality- and efficiency-related hospital attributes influenced hospital choice as well. However, the effect depended on the socioeconomic and clinical background of women. Managers and policymakers should consider these findings to understand how women behave in choosing providers and thus mitigate equity gaps. (Source: The European Journal of Health Economics)
Source: The European Journal of Health Economics - January 11, 2023 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Population norms in France with EQ-5D-5L: health states, value indexes, and VAS
ConclusionBased on a large sample, this study is the first to report EQ-5D-5L population norms for France. (Source: The European Journal of Health Economics)
Source: The European Journal of Health Economics - January 10, 2023 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

The social value of gambling: surplus estimates by gambling types for France
AbstractWe estimate the social surplus of gambling in France by adding three components: consumer surplus, producer surplus and taxation revenue. To estimate consumer surplus, we use the rational benchmark approach, which attributes a loss of welfare (i.e. a negative surplus) to problem gamblers depending on their level of excess spending compared with recreational gamblers. Using data for the year 2019 and considering only legal gambling, we find that the consumer surplus is negative for the gambling activity as a whole. When we add the producer surplus and the taxation revenue to the consumer surplus, we find that the so...
Source: The European Journal of Health Economics - January 4, 2023 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Identifying factors associated with high use of acute care in Canada: a population-based retrospective study
ConclusionsA few demographic, socioeconomic, and clinical factors was associated with high acute care expenditures. The associations between included risk factors and being acute care HCUs vary across provinces and different definitions of high system users (HSUs). (Source: The European Journal of Health Economics)
Source: The European Journal of Health Economics - January 3, 2023 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Cost –benefit analysis of the CoCare intervention to improve medical care in long-term care nursing homes: an analysis based on claims data
ConclusionThe benefits of our intervention clearly exceed its costs. In the intervention group, avoided hospital admissions led to additional outpatient billing. This indicates that such a multifactorial intervention program can be cost-saving and improve medical care in long-term care homes. (Source: The European Journal of Health Economics)
Source: The European Journal of Health Economics - December 8, 2022 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Insurance coverage, long-term care utilization, and health outcomes
AbstractHow does the generosity of social insurance coverage affect the demand for healthcare and health outcomes of elderly people? This paper presents an examination of the effects of insurance coverage on long-term care (LTC) utilization and its health consequences using administrative data of the public long-term care insurance (LTCI) system in Japan. In LTCI, a recipient ’s health score determines their insurance coverage limit, and thresholds of the score generate discontinuous changes in the level of coverage limits. I implement a regression discontinuity design and find that coverage expansion increases recipient...
Source: The European Journal of Health Economics - December 6, 2022 Category: Health Management Source Type: research