health-economics

Background: Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have limited evidence of adult mortality due to a lack of reliable data. We estimated social (caste and religion) and economic (wealth quintile) inequality in adult mortality using three rounds of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS 1998–1999, NFHS 2015–2016, and NFHS 2019–2021). Methods: We estimated the probability of death in the 15–59 a…

BackgroundThe influx of high-cost advanced therapies, particularly CAR T-cell therapies, poses profound economic and operational challenges for healthcare systems in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). As the region transitions from volume-based procurement to Value-Based Healthcare (VBHC), decision-makers must balance the urgent need for innovative curative treatments with fiscal sustainability …

The annual societal cost of Parkinson's disease across Europe reached €22.8 billion in 2019, equivalent to €28.8 billion at 2025 prices, a new study published today in Movement Disorders has shown.

Over the next 25 years, the projected global economic burden of depression is $12 trillion (in 2024 U.S. dollars), according to a study in Nature Medicine . This number represents 0.46% of the world’s projected annual gross domestic product (GDP).

ObjectiveThis study assessed the cost-effectiveness of pyrotinib combined with trastuzumab and docetaxel as a first-line treatment for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer from the perspective of the Chinese healthcare system.MethodsA partitioned survival model was constructed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of this regimen in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer. The primary…

Metabolic and bariatric surgery for teens with severe obesity was found to be cost-effective over 10 years, according to the new analysis from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago published in JAMA Network Open.

CHOICE PhD candidate Yunjoo Karris Jeon leads research providing a more nuanced picture of what federal drug price negotiation is projected to save. A new study published in Value in Health offers the first drug-level... The post New Study Offers First Drug-Level Analysis of Medicare Savings from IRA Price Negotiation, Accounting for Market Dynamics appeared first on School of Pharmacy .

COMMENCEMENT: Rahul Mudumba’s research in cost-effectiveness and outcomes modeling helps direct resources to the patients who need them most. The post Health economics doctoral grad advances better healthcare decision models appeared first on USC .

New research offers one of the clearest pictures yet on just how large the Medicare Advantage insurance broker market has become.

The impacts of tuberculosis (TB) are usually discussed in terms of public health and human suffering.

A new study found that hospitals spent at least $7.8 billion on management consulting over roughly a decade but saw no meaningful changes in finances, staffing, operations, or patient outcomes.

The National Mental Health Commission (the Commission) has engaged Monash University to deliver the most comprehensive economic modelling and evaluation of mental health interventions undertaken in Australia.

Dr. Jing Li, Associate Professor of Health Economics and Associate Director of the CHOICE Institute, has been selected as a finalist—alongside her co-authors—for the National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation’s Policy Research Award.... The post CHOICE Institute Research Named Finalist for National Health Policy Award appeared first on School of Pharmacy .

For the 160 million Americans who get health insurance through their jobs, a stark reality has been building for decades. Between 1999 and 2024, family premiums for employer-sponsored coverage climbed 342%. Workers’ contributions to those premiums rose 308%. Their actual earnings? Up just 119%. That’s not a gap. That’s a chasm, and it’s widening every year. A new economic analysis in JAMA Network…

Edwards Lifesciences has announced the results of a health economics study across nine European countries, led by York Health Economics Consortium, which it says has shown that early transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) for asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis (AS) patients delivers significant economic benefits alongside improved clinical outcomes. The simulation estimates lifetime per-…

Essays in Health Economics Author(s) Moran, Kelsey C.Advisor Finkelstein, Amy Gruber, Jonathan Terms of use Abstract This dissertation comprises three essays in health economics. The first paper studies how imperfect electronic health record (EHR) system compatibility, or interoperability, affects patients. My coauthors, Rebekah Dix and Thi Mai Anh Nguyen, and I find that improved EHR interoperab…

The post American’s overall and equity-based societal valuation of a disease-modifying Alzheimer’s treatment: Results from a discrete choice experiment appeared first on Center for Economic and Social Research .

A retrospective economic analysis of the LIFE-BTK trial has demonstrated the one-year cost-effectiveness of an everolimus-eluting resorbable scaffold over angioplasty for the treatment of infrapopliteal artery disease, with investigators predicting more significant results in the longer term. Sharing this finding at TCT 2024 (27–30 October, Washington, DC, USA), LIFE-BTK co-principal investigator…

Pauline Mourot has an idea that could save more than 800 lives a year. All it would require? Switching cardiac surgeons between hospitals. The proposal combines a classic idea from labor economics— worker sorting across firms—with the economics of healthcare production. In the health economics literature, often known for hotly debated topics like insurance and Read more... The post The Surgeon Sh…