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 …

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 …

Abstract A decade ago, Newhouse (1987) assessed the balance of trade between imports
from the econometrics literature into health economics, and exports from health economics …

This paper compares two indices of horizontal inequity in the delivery of health care, the
index proposed by Wagstaff, van Doorslaer, and Paci (1991), and another index derived in …

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 …

Physically inactive people are expected to use more healthcare services than active people.
This inactivity imposes costs on the collectively funded health insurance programs. In this …

This paper develops a semi‐parametric estimation method for hurdle (two‐part) count
regression models. The approach in each stage is based on Laguerre series expansion for …

OBJECTIVE: To measure and explain income-related inequalities in health and health care
utilization in the period 2000-2009 in Chile, while assessing variations within the country …

The objective of this paper is to determine the price sensitivity of smokers in their
consumption of cigarettes, using evidence from a major increase in California cigarette …