Few studies have used preference-based quality-of-life outcomes to assess how autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) affect children and parents, and none have examined variation by ASD severity.
Overall mortality rates, adjusted for age, sex, and Medicaid status, in Medicare Advantage have been below those in traditional Medicare for many years.
Throughout history, technological progress has transformed population health, but the distributional effects of these gains are unclear.
Typhoid fever is an acute systemic infectious disease responsible for an estimated 12–20 million illnesses and over 150?000 deaths annually.
On the thirty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Orphan Drug Act (ODA), we describe the enormous changes in the markets for therapies for rare diseases that have emerged over recent decades.
This chapter summarizes research in behavioral health economics, focusing on insurance markets and product markets in health care.
The 40th anniversary of the Alma-Ata Declaration gave the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health an opportunity to assess progress towards grand convergence, and to reflect on the future of primary
Objective: To describe the relationship between emergency department resource utilization and admission rate at the level of the individual physician.
Improving the performance of the healthcare sector requires an understanding of the efficiency and effectiveness of care delivered by providers.
Previous work has suggested that Emergency Department rotational patient assignment (a system in which patients are algorithmically assigned to physicians) is associated with immediate (first-year) im
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