OUTPUT,OUTCOME, AND QUALITY ADJUSTMENT IN MEASURING HEALTH AND EDUCATION SERVICES

This paper provides an overview of measuring price and volume changes of the output of health and education providers. In the national accounts, outputs should reflect the results of production and these cannot normally be captured by outcome, the state of health or education of the population. However, we show that outcome information is required when it comes to quality adjustment of output measures. The paper clarifies terminology, and discusses output measurement and quality adjustment methods with a focus on health and education services.     

Prenatal care: Mechanisms and impacts on infant health and health care utilization

We estimate that prenatal care has positive impacts on health measured at birth, shifts the distribution of future health care utilization away from inpatient care, and find that some of these impacts likely come from an informational mechanism. We also find well child visits are used in a complementary fashion with emergency department care in the production of infant health, suggesting that factors beyond barriers to access may drive the demand for emergency care. Finally, we find differential impacts of prenatal care across racial groups with evidence that the information mechanism may be particularly important for black mothers.     

有机国药基地产业生态旅游发展创新研究——以浙江省武义县寿仙谷基地为例

有机国药基地发展生态旅游在国内尚属空白。本文分析了浙江省武义县寿仙谷有机国药基地的旅游资源价值、市场前景,创新性地提出了生态养生旅游产品开发的思路及线路整合方案,具有一定参考价值。     

城市外来人口的户籍身份与卫生服务利用——以昆明市官渡区为例

基于最新的研究动向与成果,按照区域分割和城乡分割相结合的双重视角,探讨外来农业人口、外来城市人口、本地农业人口和本地城市人口在卫生服务利用上的差异。城乡分割主要是"遗产性"的影响,表现为外来人口内部的农业(户籍)人口与非农业(户籍)人口在流入地卫生服务利用上的差距;区域分割的影响显著,表现为两个外来人口群体与本地人口之间在获取城市卫生服务上的差距。外来农业人口受区域分割和城乡分割的双重影响,处于研究群体的最底层,使用私人诊所和在家接生的概率最大。     

农村公共医疗卫生供需缺口研究——基于河北省农户的调查分析

基于河北省654份调查问卷的分析表明,农户对保健、计划生育、健康教育等需求增强,但在就诊上对医疗机构的选择存在很大差异,这与农村医疗卫生体系在药品与服务供给上的相对不足有很大关系;农户负担的成本种类多、金额大,初级卫生诊所环境建设的缺失以及对其监管力量的相对弱化是影响农村公共医疗卫生供需不均的重要因素。因此,应完善区域卫生规则,合理调配卫生资源,提高医务人员素质,建立多元化的农村医疗服务体系,满足农户需求。     

兽药工艺学多媒体组合教学研究

兽药工艺学是动物医学专业的专业选修课之一,通过在兽药工艺学中采用多种媒体组合的教学研究方法,使现代教学媒体与传统教学有机地结合在一起,互为补充,相辅相承,达到优化教学效果的目标。     

高校教师压力、心理健康现状及对策研究

以220名浙江省高校教师为被试,对其进行了压力和心理健康状况的调查研究,并提出缓解其压力、提升其心理健康水平的对策。     

城镇居民健康差异与医疗支出行为

文章在CHIP2002城镇住户调查的基础上,讨论了影响我国城镇居民健康和医疗支出行为的经济原因以及医疗费用及医疗补贴向高收入者集中的问题。健康状况是影响医疗支出行为的重要因素,收入对医疗费用有显著作用,收入差距程度、医疗费用高低也构成医疗支出行为的影响因素。     

Well-being effects of extreme weather events in the United States

The increase in weather and climate disasters in recent years has prompted an interest in analyzing their consequences and the mitigation and adaptation measures that can help minimize their potentially large impacts on individuals’ welfare. We match thirty-one billion-dollar disasters with individual survey data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to estimate the effect of extreme weather events on the subjective well-being of U.S. residents. Our results indicate that natural disasters have a negative and robust impact on subjective well-being in the affected communities, and that, on average, this impact peaks 6 months after the event, and then decays over time. We then investigate the attenuating impact of health care access, flood insurance, and governmental assistance programs and find a partial compensating role for risk-transfer and relief measures. We also find that stronger emotional and social support mitigates the negative impact of natural disasters.     

The transmission of partner mental health to individual life satisfaction: Estimates from a longitudinal household survey

This paper investigates the relationship between partner's mental health and individual life satisfaction, using panel data and calculating the monetary valuation of mental illness. Accounting for measurement error and endogeneity of income, partners' mental health has a significant association with individual well-being. The additional income needed to compensate someone living with a partner with a mental condition is substantial (ranges between USD 33,000 and USD 50,000). Further, individuals do not show adaptation to partners' mental illness. The results have implications for policy-makers wishing to value the effects of policies that aim to impact on mental health and levels of well-being.