Healthcare database analyses (claims, electronic health records) have been identified by
various regulatory initiatives, including the 21st Century Cures Act and Prescription Drug …

This paper shows how truncated, censored, hurdle, zero inflated and underreported count
models can be interpreted as models with selectivity. Until recently, users of such count data …

This article explores the issue of demand for health care and medicines in India where
household share of total health expenditure is one of the highest among high-and low …

This chapter reviews the econometric approaches typically used to deal with the spike of
zeros when modelling non-negative outcomes such as expenditures, income, or …

The present study empirically investigates the effect of consumer health information on the
demand for physician visits. Using a direct information measure based on questions from the …

This paper examines the effects of sports and exercise on hospital stays for males and
females by various chronic conditions using a panel dataset from Canada. The results …

Background Community care has recently been restructured with the development of
Community Health Centres (CHCs), forcing a general rethink on the survival of previous …

During recent decades, water demand estimation has gained considerable attention from
scholars. From an econometric perspective, the most used functional forms include log‐log …

Clinicians need to predict the number of involved nodes in breast cancer patients in order to
ascertain severity, prognosis, and design subsequent treatment. The distribution of involved …

Objectives. The authors assess (1) the effects of first-dollar prescription drug insurance
coverage provided by the Ontario Drug Benefit plan at age 65 on prescription drug use by …