Consumer Choice Policy
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Considering consumer choice in the economic evaluation of mandatory health programmes: a review.
OBJECTIVE Governments are increasing their focus on mandatory public health programmes following positive economic evaluations of their impact. This review aims to examine whether loss of consumer choice should be included in economic evaluations of mandatory health programmes (MHP). METHOD A systematic literature review was conducted to identify economic evaluations of MHP, whether they disc...
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Defaults have such powerful and pervasive effects on consumer behavior that they could be considered "hidden persuaders" in sonríe settings, ignoring defaults is not a sound option for marketers or consumer policy makers. The authors identify three theoretical causes of default effects—impiied endorsement, cognitive biases, and effort—to guide thought on the appropriate marketer and policy make...
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There is a strong national and international movement to enhance the role of consumer choice, control, and direction regarding important aspects of publicly financed home- and community-based long-term care. The research project described in this article set out to examine, with a particular focus on Ohio, policy-relevant issues pertaining to how choices about publicly financed home- and commun...
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Various barriers for the uptake of energy-efficiency measures in the domestic sector have been identified. Projects try to quantify the effect of individual barriers like transaction costs, information lack, access to technologies or convenience. We propose to use the ‘consumer choice chain’ as a wider framework to understand energy-efficiency choices by domestic consumers. This allows comparis...
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The Clinton administration’s recently announced home and community-based care proposals have potentially important implications not only for long-term care policy, but also for housing policy in the United States. This article attempts to draw out some of those implications. The first section examines problems inherent in the current “medical/welfare” system of financing longterm care, which co...
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Background Transparency in quality of care is an increasingly important issue in healthcare. In many international healthcare systems, transparency in quality is crucial for health insurers when purchasing care on behalf of their consumers, for providers to improve the quality of care (if necessary), and for consumers to choose their provider in case treatment is needed. Conscious consume...
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