We review statistical methods for analysing healthcare resource use and costs, their ability
to address skewness, excess zeros, multimodality and heavy right tails, and their ease for …

Aims This paper provides a focused summary of the relative contribution of addiction
intervention outcomes to total economic benefit, based upon a compilation of published …

The “count data”? eld has further? ourished since the previous edition of this book was
published in 2003. The development of new methods has not slowed down by any means …

This paper presents new international comparative evidence on the factors driving
inequalities in the use of GP and specialist services in 12 EU member states. The data are …

We describe a new approach to estimating relative risks in time-to-event prediction problems
with censored data in a fully parametric manner. Our approach does not require making …

Background: Recent studies have shown inconsistent effects of sodium reduction, potassium
intake, and the ratio of sodium to potassium (Na/K ratio) on hypertension and other …

The first edition of Applied Health Economics did an expert job of showing how the
availability of large scale data sets and the rapid advancement of advanced econometric …

In this paper we propose and estimate a model of theater participation using the data
contained in the 2002 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts from the USA, a dataset …

Motivated by the observation that medical care explains only a relatively small part of the
socio-economic status (SES)-health gradient, we present a life-cycle model that incorporates …

In this paper, a conditional demand function is estimated for the length of stay at a tourist
destination. The microeconomic model specifies the demand for the length of stay …