We conducted a literature review of studies on Physician Assistants working in a variety of settings and found few evaluation studies on the costs and/or effectiveness of Physician Assistants in primary care practices, Emergency Departments and in hospital settings other than Emergency...

In recent years many empirical studies have reported substantial differences in people's responses to willingness-to-pay vs compensation questions in the context of measuring potential economic losses. This paper offers an alternative explanation to this phenomenon. We claim that such...

Recent publications have acknowledged the theoretical superiority of the healthy years equivalent (HYE) concept over quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs), but have raised questions about the practicality of measuring them. We describe a simple, two-stage, lottery-based approach to measure HYEs...

Physician shortages and their implications for required increases in the physician population are matters of considerable interest in many health care systems, in light especially of the widespread phenomenon of population ageing. To determine the extent to which shortages exist one needs to...

Physician shortages and their implications for required increases in the physician population are matters of considerable interest in many health care systems, in light especially of the widespread phenomenon of population ageing. To determine the extent to which shortages exist one needs to...

It is hard to ignore the importance of patient time investment in the production of health since the influential paper by Grossman (1972). Patient time includes time to admission, travel time, waiting time, and treatment time and can be substantial. Time to admission is the time between the...

The primary purpose of this paper is to examine disability-related sources of income and expenses among high and low income older Canadians. Specifically, the paper attempts to answer three questions: Do low and high income seniors experience disability equally? Do low and high income seniors...

In this paper, we present a conceptual model to describe an individual's preparations for later life. Situated in the life course perspective, this model invites a comprehensive and systematic study of later life planning. It describes a dynamic process that portrays the interplay between social...

The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence, types, and severity of disabilities, as well as the medical conditions that may have caused disabilities among non-institutionalized older adults by high and low income. Disabled individuals aged 55 years and older were identified from...

The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence, types, and severity of disabilities, as well as the medical conditions that may have caused disabilities among non-institutionalized older adults by high and low income. Disabled individuals aged 55 years and older were identified from...