Se compara la utilización de servicios sanitarios y los costes totales de atención de tres cohortes de pacientes con esquizofrenia en el tercer año tras el diagnóstico. Las tres cohortes son representativas de tres áreas ...

Where the contracts are incomplete, the resulting co-ordination problems may be attenuated if workers are intrinsically motivated to do the work. It is established by theoretical and empirical literature that workers within ...

The validity and reliability of the EQ-5D-5L in comparison with the standard 3L has been tested through the analysis of psychometric properties making use of different samples of patients. However, it is likely that the ...

Objetivo: Estimar necesidades relativas de gasto de las regiones venezolanas, basadas en técnicas estadísticas de análisis multivariante. Material y Métodos: Se utilizan datos del año 1997 referidos a variables demográficas ...

We model the decision of whether or not to become a blood/living organ donor. The expected utility for becoming a donor is a function of the degree of altruism, the consumption of goods, the costs of donation, the very ...

Objective. To determine the cost-utility and cost-effectiveness of the surgical treatment of female urinary incontinence using suburethral slings compared with therapeutic abstention. Study Design. An economic analysis was ...

The aim of this research is to model altruistic blood and organ donors behaviour. First, we make an analysis of the decision of to be or not to be a donor for any individual. We propose a model where individuals compare ...

Aims: To analyze the health-related quality of life of patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), with respect to the population at large and to a control group. The following goals are addressed: 1.- To determine ...

Objetivos. Analizar cuáles deben ser los criterios clínicos y sociales en base a los cuales deben ser priorizados los pacientes en listas de espera quirúrgicas programadas. Métodos Se estima un modelo de elección discreta ...

This paper explores optimal incentive schemes in public health institutions when agents (doctors) are intrinsically motivated. We develop a principal-agent dynamic model with moral hazard in which agents’ intrinsic motivation ...