Background The prevalence of adult obesity exceeds 30% in the United States, posing a
significant public health concern as well as a substantial financial burden. Although the …

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 …

This paper is the first to use the method of instrumental variables (IV) to estimate the impact
of obesity on medical costs in order to address the endogeneity of weight and to reduce the …

Background There is widespread concern that the present economic crisis, particularly its
effect on unemployment, will adversely affect population health. We investigated how …

Health economists often use log models to deal with skewed outcomes, such as health
utilization or health expenditures. The literature provides a number of alternative estimation …

Objective To determine whether English regions worst affected by the economic recession in
the United Kingdom in 2008-10 have had the greatest increases in suicides. Design Time …

Abstract Research Summary Tobit models have been used to address several questions in
management research. Reviewing existing practices and applications, we discuss three …

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 …

Health policy makers are faced with competing alternatives, and for systems of health care
financing. The choice of financing method should mobilize resources for health care and …

Economic evaluation is often seen as a branch of health economics divorced from
mainstream econometric techniques. Instead, it is perceived as relying on statistical methods …