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January 1, 2024
Joseph P. Newhouse graduated from Harvard University with both undergraduate and graduate degrees. His primary research field is health economics. This chapter reviews his research contributions to economics and health economics in particular. Among his ma ...
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December 13, 2022
This paper reports the first effort to use data to evaluate how new information, acquired through exogenous health shocks, affects people's longevity expectations. We find that smokers react differently to health shocks than do those who quit smoking or ne ...
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December 13, 2022
This study tests the reliability of the most important subjective risk assessment a person can make: an expectation about personal longevity. Using four waves of the Health and Retirement Survey we tested whether longevity expectations match actual mortali ...
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December 13, 2022
This study describes government interventions during the 1900s and their effects on cigarette consumption within a rational addiction framework. With annual data for the 20th century, impacts of specific antismoking information events disappear. U.S. per c ...
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January 1, 2016
We present a longitudinal form of the Grade of Membership (GoM) model for time-varying covariates, provide a self-contained description of its estimation, and illustrate its application with a substantively meaningful analysis of the progression of dementi ...
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January 1, 2014
Why five decades since smoking's harms were first widely publicized do 20% of US adults smoke? Theoretical frameworks to explain smoking come in three forms: rational, imperfectly rational, and irrational addiction. A reason rational people smoke and other ...
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September 18, 2012
This article discusses preventive vaccines, focusing on features that differentiate these vaccines from other biopharmaceuticals. The external costs of infectious diseases imply external benefits from effective vaccines, and this has motivated public manda ...
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January 1, 2007
Context The pharmaceutical industry serves a dual role in modern society. On one hand, it is a growing industry, and its output makes a direct contribution to gross domestic product (GDP). On the other, prescription drugs, this industry's major output, are ...
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January 1, 2007
Introduction This final chapter summarizes key findings and conclusions of the previous chapters and explores their policy implications. More specifically, we discuss eight policy issues that arise as governments seek to promote pharmaceutical innovation i ...
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January 1, 2007
Introduction and Overview Judged in terms of the relationship of benefit to cost, vaccines are among the most socially valuable public health investments (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] 1999; Stratton, Durch, and Lawrence 2000). In s ...
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January 1, 2006
Insurance issues rarely dominate the front page in public discussions of medical malpractice. Sharply rising premiums and nonavailability of coverage1 have been the main precipitating factors in each medical crisis that has occurred in the United States in ...
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January 1, 2002
The probability of being injured in a motor vehicle accident, surviving, and incurring some economic loss during 1989 was 0.026 in the US (Hensler et al. 1991). In 1976, in the UK, 2.1 persons per 1,000 reported incapacity (lasting two weeks or longer duri ...
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December 1, 2000
The for-profit hospital is in the minority numerically in all developed countries. Although the for-profits' market share has been quite stable for decades, for-profit chains have grown in share and influence in the United States. By contrast, for-profit c ...
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