Financing, Personal

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Age and the purchase of prescription drug insurance by older adults. 
  • Are prescription drug insurance choices consistent with expected utility theory? 
  • Associations of housing mobility interventions for children in high-poverty neighborhoods with subsequent mental disorders during adolescence. 
  • Battling the Chargemaster: A Simple Remedy to Balance Billing for Unavoidable Out-Of-Network Care 
  • Cancer therapy costs influence treatment: a national survey of oncologists. 
  • Cancer treatment cost in the United States: has the burden shifted over time? 
  • Catastrophic acute and long-term care costs: risks faced by disabled elderly persons. 
  • Cervical Cancer Screening Knowledge and Behavior among Women Attending an Urban HIV Clinic in Western Kenya. 
  • Changes in health expenditures in China in 2000s: has the health system reform improved affordability. 
  • Characteristics of representative payeeship involving families of beneficiaries with psychiatric disabilities. 
  • Characteristics of third-party money management for persons with psychiatric disabilities. 
  • Choice Experiments to Quantify Preferences for Health and Healthcare: State of the Practice. 
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening in a Nationwide High-deductible Health Plan Before and After the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Comparing willingness to pay for telemedicine across a chronic heart failure and hypertension population. 
  • Comparison of preferences for end-of-life care among patients with advanced cancer and their caregivers: A discrete choice experiment. 
  • Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy in the Era of Financial Toxicity: An Additional Point for Concern? 
  • Credit card debt, stress and key health risk behaviors among college students. 
  • Decreasing patient cost and travel time through pediatric rheumatology telemedicine visits. 
  • Do United States-based Medicaid spend-down programmes make public sense for persons with HIV/AIDS? 
  • Economic Burden of Dengue Virus Infection at the Household Level Among Residents of Puerto Maldonado, Peru. 
  • Effects of simplifying choice tasks on estimates of taste heterogeneity in stated-choice surveys. 
  • Einstein on willingness to pay per QALY: is there a better way? 
  • Financial counseling for families of children with chronic disabilities. 
  • Financing maternal and child health--what are the limitations in estimating donor flows and resource needs? 
  • Formation of trusts and spend down to Medicaid. 
  • Full disclosure--out-of-pocket costs as side effects. 
  • High Caesarean section rate in rural China: is it related to health insurance (New Co-operative Medical Scheme)? 
  • Home care expenses for the disabled elderly. 
  • How do physician assessments of patient preferences for colorectal cancer screening tests differ from actual preferences? A comparison in Canada and the United States using a stated-choice survey. 
  • How does cost matter in health-care discrete-choice experiments? 
  • How does the New Cooperative Medical Scheme influence health service utilization? A study in two provinces in rural China. 
  • How much are patients willing to pay to avoid intraoperative awareness? 
  • How much are patients willing to pay to avoid postoperative muscle pain associated with succinylcholine? 
  • How valuable are environmental health interventions? Evaluation of water and sanitation programmes in India. 
  • Hypothetical bias, cheap talk, and stated willingness to pay for health care. 
  • Impact of Treatment Subsidies and Cash Payouts on Treatment Choices at the End of Life. 
  • Impact of alternative reimbursement strategies in the new cooperative medical scheme on caesarean delivery rates: a mixed-method study in rural China. 
  • Long-term care, Medicaid, and impoverishment of the elderly. 
  • Measuring High-Risk Patients' Preferences for Pharmacogenetic Testing to Reduce Severe Adverse Drug Reaction: A Discrete Choice Experiment. 
  • Medical training debt and service commitments: the rural consequences. 
  • Microfinance and health interventions: Factors influencing loan repayment success with young men in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 
  • Multiple prior years of health expenditures and Medicare health plan choice. 
  • Over- and under-treatment of TB patients in Eastern China: an analysis based on health insurance claims data. 
  • Patient-physician discussions about costs: definitions and impact on cost conversation incidence estimates. 
  • Preferences for end-of-life care among community-dwelling older adults and patients with advanced cancer: A discrete choice experiment. 
  • Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Financial Stress in Survivors of Critical Illness. 
  • Private demand for a HIV/AIDS vaccine: evidence from Guadalajara, Mexico. 
  • Reduced Cost-sharing for Preventive Drugs Preferentially Benefits Low-income Patients With Diabetes in High Deductible Health Plans With Health Savings Accounts. 
  • Reliability of self-reported willingness-to-pay and annual income in patients treated for toenail onychomycosis. 
  • The burden of Parkinson's disease on society, family, and the individual. 
  • The defined-contribution plan: the next generation of healthcare financing. 
  • The role of price, sociodemographic factors, and health in the demand for bariatric surgery. 
  • The utility of cost discussions between patients with cancer and oncologists. 
  • Two-year trends in colorectal cancer screening after switch to a high-deductible health plan. 
  • Water quality perceptions and willingness to pay for clean water in peri-urban Cambodian communities. 
  • What Strategies Do Physicians and Patients Discuss to Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs? Analysis of Cost-Saving Strategies in 1,755 Outpatient Clinic Visits. 
  • Why not real economics? 
  • Willingness to pay for improved respiratory and cardiovascular health: a multiple-format, stated-preference approach. 
  • Willingness-to-pay stated preferences for telemedicine versus in-person visits in patients with a history of psoriasis or melanoma. 
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  • Zafar, Syed Yousuf, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke Science & Society