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Reservation wage of female volunteer community health workers in Dhaka urban slums: A bidding game approach

Alam, Khurshid; Tasneem, Sakiba; Huq, Molla - In: Health Economics Review 4 (2014) 16, pp. 1-10

Background: BRAC, a large Bangladeshi NGO, recently has been using female volunteer community health workers (CHWs) in Dhaka urban slums to provide maternal and child health services. Due to erratic performance-based income and higher opportunity cost the urban CHWs lose motivation which...

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Distributional health and financial consequences of increased cigarette tax in Iran: Extended cost-effectiveness analysis

Raei, Behzad; Emamgholipour, Sara; Takian, Amirhossein; … - In: Health Economics Review 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-10

Background: To assess the potential impact of a tax-induced cigarette price increase on financial and health outcomes by different socioeconomic groups. Methods: In a modeled condition using pooled cross-section data from Household Income and Expenditure Survey (2002-2017) and Iran 2019...

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Association of child maltreatment with South African adults' wages: Evidence from the Cape Area panel study

Zheng, Xiaodong; Fang, Xiangming; Fry, Deborah A.; … - In: Health Economics Review 8 (2018) 20, pp. 1-12

young adults' wages in South Africa. The results show that, on average, any experience of physical or emotional abuse during … childhood is associated with a later 12% loss of young adults' wages. In addition, the correlation between physical abuse and … economic consequence (14%) is more significant than the relationship between emotional abuse and wages (8%) of young adults …

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Will vaccination against rotavirus infection with RIX4414 be cost-saving in Germany?

Knoll, Stefanie; Mair, Christoph; Benter, Ursula; Vouk, … - In: Health Economics Review 3 (2013) 27, pp. 1-11

cost-saving intervention from the perspective of the statutory health insurance (SHI) in Germany. Objective: The objective … to the SHI when comparing 100% rotavirus vaccination with no vaccination in Germany. Methods: A Markov cohort model …-based physicians due to the vaccine's efficacy against severe disease. Conclusions: Routine rotavirus vaccination in Germany would …

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Forgone care and financial burden due to out-of-pocket payments within the German health care system

Bremer, Patrick - In: Health Economics Review 4 (2014) 36, pp. 1-9

Background: The amount of out-of-pocket (OOP) payments within the German health care system has risen steadily within the last years. OOP payments aim to strengthen patients' cost awareness and try to restrict the demand on medical necessary treatments. However, besides the intended decline of...

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Biologic TNF inhibiting agents for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis: Persistence and dosing patterns in Germany

Neubauer, Sarah; Cifaldi, Mary; Mittendorf, Thomas; … - In: Health Economics Review 4 (2014) 32, pp. 1-11

inhibitors adalimumab, etanercept, and infliximab in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients treated in Germany. Methods: In this …

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Early health economic evaluation of the future potential of next generation artificial vision systems for treating blindness in Germany

Schwander, Bjoern - In: Health Economics Review 4 (2014) 27, pp. 1-10

Germany. The innovative nature, the high unmet medical need and the expected unprecedented efficacy of next generation AVDs …

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Preferences for health insurance in Germany and the Netherlands: A tale of two countries

Leukert-Becker, Karolin; Zweifel, Peter - In: Health Economics Review 4 (2014) 22, pp. 1-11

Background: This contribution seeks to measure preferences for health insurance in Germany and the Netherlands, using …

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Parents' willingness to pay for the prevention of childhood overweight and obesity

Kesztyüs, Dorothea; Lauer, Romy; Schreiber, Anja C.; … - In: Health Economics Review 4 (2014) 20, pp. 1-8

Objective: To determine parental willingness-to-pay (WTP) for childhood obesity prevention. Methods: Cross-sectional data from the follow-up measurements (2011) of a health promotion programme in German primary schools. Data collection included anthropometric measurements of children and...

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Quantifying the broader economic consequences of quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in Germany applying a government perspective framework

Kotsopoulos, Nikolaos; Connolly, Mark P.; Remy, Vanessa - In: Health Economics Review 5 (2015) 23, pp. 1-11

a lifetime cost-benefit analysis of investing in universal vaccination in Germany from the perspective of government … the cohorts. After taking into consideration the governmental transfers, universal HPV vaccination in Germany could result …

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