International Health Care Reform clearly explains the arguments in economics and justice for intervention by governments in health care markets; the structure and dynamics of health care systems; and the features of competition-oriented reform models. The book will appeal to students and researchers involved in health policy studie...
Life expectancy (LE) has usually been used as a metric to monitor population health. In the last few years, metrics such as Quality-Adjusted-Life-Expectancy (QALE) and Health-Adjusted-Life- Expectancy (HALE) have gained popularity in health research, giv
Informal care makes up a significant part of the total amount of care provided to care recipients with chronic and terminal diseases. Still, informal care is often neglected in economic evaluations of health care programs. Probably this is related to the fact that the costs of informal care are...
Economic theories broadly fall under two categories: microeconomics and macroeconomics. In most basic terms, microeconomics deals with the economy at a smaller level or at a smaller scale, such as the market for a particular product (e.g., automobiles) or the behavior of an individual firm ...
In the analytical models from which the probabilities were computed, the baseline hazard was represented by the length of the relationship. The models included the following control variables: age of female and male partners at the beginning of the union, historical period, partner’s previous ...
Our study advances the understanding of cancer’s broader impacts on well-being in three important ways. First, we integrate theories and concepts of household division of labor into the empirical models. We examine the heterogeneous impacts by the relative income status of the spouses prior to th...
theories. So you have already learned several economic courses, and you have basic, you have some basic ideas about economic theories. For example, let me see what kind of theories you might know. Okay. So previously we have seen one of the experiments in the previous literature from you ...
The goal of Feminist Economics is not just to develop more illuminating theories but to improve the conditions of living for all children, women, and men. 主要研究方向:ECONOMICS; WOMEN'S STUDIES 经济学;女性研究 FINANZARCHIV《金融文汇》 国际标准刊号:ISSN 0015-2218/EISSN 1614-0974 核心类别:SSCI...
Despite a high level of heterogeneity in study scope and model structure among included studies, almost all mental health prevention interventions were either cost-saving or cost-effective. Future models should make efforts to conduct in the low-resource context setting, expand the time horizon, ...
This introductory chapter presents some general comments on the structure of the arguments of the book and a summary of the major hypotheses discussed in the subsequent chapters. It also comments on key assumptions underlying the economic models put forward in the arguments throughout the chapters, ...