In October 2017, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to approve the Recommended Immunization Schedule for Adults Aged 19 Years or Older, United States, 2018. The 2018 adult immunization schedule summarizes ACIP recommendations in two figures and a table of contraindications and precautions for vaccines recommended for adults, and is intended is to assist health care pr...

The first section of this new work is an essay by Professor Fox which documents and offers a personal interpretation of the history of health care economics. The remainder of the volume consists of eleven commentaries on this exposition by a veritable "Who's Who" of medical economists. Most of the commentaries applaud Fox's groundbreaking effort while at least one (by I.S. Falk) takes strenuous...

introduction: health care industry consists of an unexpected and confusing environment in which quality events play the important role. in such conditions, the necessary changes should be made. excellence models are general oriented frameworks that are able to achieve the above intention. materials & methods: this study is a descriptive cross-sectional study. data gathered by a standard checkli...

OBJECTIVES To describe the pharmaceutical use, health care resource utilisation patterns, and annual direct medical cost of epilepsy as well as determining the impact of various demographic and clinical characteristics on total costs of epilepsy in Oman. METHODS Medical and pharmacy data were collected for 6 months on all patients aged > or =13 years attending the Sultan Qaboos University Hos...

The topic of the International Diabetes Federation Consensus conference, held 7–9 February 2003 in Santa Monica, California, was “Type 2 Diabetes in the Young: The Evolving Epidemic” (1). The topic has become a clinical and health economic priority, with important implications for an increasing health care burden throughout the world. Aspects of these conditions have recently been reviewed (1,2).

This paper introduces the structural indicators, process indicators and outcome indicators as the basic concept of data analysis to describe factual evidence of health care in diabetes. As for human nature the health is the most important value in terms of quality of life, the measurement of the health care outcomes and the quality of health care are much more important than the measurement of ...

People often make decisions in health care that are not in their best interest, ranging from failing to enroll in health insurance to which they are entitled, to engaging in extremely harmful behaviors. Traditional economic theory provides a limited tool kit for improving behavior because it assumes that people make decisions in a rational way, have the mental capacity to deal with huge amounts...

Health care costs in the United States have been rising faster than most other goods and services for more than 20 years. The fundamental reason for this rise in cost is unbridled demand for health care services. Demand is high because those who receive the benefits (patients) pay a relatively small portion of the cost of their health insurance. The bulk of health insurance costs are paid by em...

This editorial provides a review of the current ways in which health economics is impacting on policy and reviews some of the key ethical and value-judgmental issues that commonly arise in and as a result of the work of economists. It also briefly highlights the contributions of the authors of this special issue of the journal, all of which illustrate how economists have approached ethical issu...

This paper presents a model of consumer directed health care, high deductible insurance plans. Insurance companies in a competitive market offer such plans; higher deductibles result in lower premiums. Such changes affect consumers’ decisions on preventive care. I show that preventive care may or may not increase when consumers face more risk and lower premium. Furthermore, I look at selection ...