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Exclusive Papers Collection of Editorial Board Members in the Section “Health Economics”

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Economics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 7295

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Helen Weatherly

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Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
Interests: economic evaluation; long term care; informal unpaid care; public health

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce this Collection titled “Exclusive Papers Collection of Editorial Board Members in Section ‘Health Economics’”. This issue will be a collection of papers from our Section Editorial Board Members and researchers invited by the Editorial Board Members. The aim is to provide a venue for networking and communication between IJERPH and scholars in the field of Health Economics All papers will be published with fully open access after peer review.

Dr. Helen Weatherly
Guest Editor

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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Health and long-term (or social) care economic evaluation
  • Health and social insurance and payment systems
  • Health and long-term care expenditure
  • Efficiency and distributional aspects of health and long-term care
  • Financing of health and long-term care services
  • Policy interventions in healthcare, long-term care, and public health
  • Economic incentives of health and long-term care
  • Health and long-term care organization and administration

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Increased Substance Use among Nurses during the COVID-19 Pandemic
by Eamonn Arble, Dana Manning, Bengt B. Arnetz and Judith E. Arnetz
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(3), 2674; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032674 - 02 Feb 2023
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There is growing evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a severe impact on the nursing profession worldwide. Occupational strain has disrupted nurses’ emotional wellbeing and may have led to negative coping behaviors, such as increased substance use, which could impair cognitive functioning. [...] Read more.
There is growing evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a severe impact on the nursing profession worldwide. Occupational strain has disrupted nurses’ emotional wellbeing and may have led to negative coping behaviors, such as increased substance use, which could impair cognitive functioning. The aim of this study was to examine whether increased substance use in a sample of U.S. nurses during the pandemic was related to greater workplace cognitive failure. An online questionnaire was administered in May 2020 to Michigan nurses statewide via three nursing organizations (n = 695 respondents). A path model was used to test the direct effects of reported increased substance use on workplace cognitive failure and via parallel psychological mediators. The model had excellent fit to the observed data, with statistically significant, unique mediating effects of greater symptoms of anxiety (b = 0.236, z = 2.22, p = 0.027), posttraumatic stress disorder (b = 0.507, z = 4.62, p < 0.001) and secondary trauma (b = 1.10, z = 2.82, p = 0.005). Importantly, the direct effect of increased substance use on workplace cognitive failure was not statistically significant independent of the mediators (b = 0.133, z = 0.56, p = 0.576; 95% confidence interval: −0.33, 0.60). These results point to the importance of further delineating the mechanistic pathways linking adverse stress to workplace cognitive failure. As we emerge from the pandemic, healthcare systems should focus resources on supporting cognitive health by addressing the psychological and emotional welfare of nurses, many of whom may be struggling with residual trauma and increased substance use. Full article
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Childhood Predictors of Healthcare Use and Health Status in Early Adulthood: Findings from the Twins Early Development Study
by Paul McCrone and Janet Boadu
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(23), 16349; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192316349 - 06 Dec 2022
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The use of healthcare services is likely to be associated with need but also the factors relating to the care system and the ability to negotiate around it. Healthcare use and health status may also be associated with the factors that exist in [...] Read more.
The use of healthcare services is likely to be associated with need but also the factors relating to the care system and the ability to negotiate around it. Healthcare use and health status may also be associated with the factors that exist in childhood. This study aims to identify the demographic, clinical, and cognitive characteristics of children at age 4 that impact healthcare use and health status at age 21. The data from the Twins Early Development Study were used. Health problems, healthcare use, and cognitive ability at age 4 were entered into generalised estimating equations to predict the use of general practitioners, outpatient services, counselling, emergency clinic visits, and a healthcare helpline at age 21. Similar models existed for the prediction of whether problems were recorded on the EQ-5D-5L EuroQol instrument. The data on up to 6707 individuals were available for analysis. Sex was a significant predictor of service use, with boys being more likely than girls to later use all services, except for emergency clinic visits. Certain health conditions at age 4 predicted the use of services with models differing according to service type. Greater general cognitive ability predicted higher use of general practitioners, outpatient care, and health helplines. The current health status was strongly predictive of service use. Service use in young adulthood was significantly related to concurrent health status as well as health conditions in childhood. General cognitive ability was significantly associated with the use of general practitioner contacts, outpatient visits, and the use of a health helpline. Full article
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The Effects and Costs of Personalized Budgets for People with Disabilities: A Systematic Review
by Marguerite Robinson, Marie Blaise, Germain Weber and Marc Suhrcke
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(23), 16225; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192316225 - 04 Dec 2022
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This article reviews the peer-reviewed and grey literature published from January 1985 to November 2022 that has quantitatively evaluated the effects of personalized budgets for people with disabilities (PwDs), in terms of a range of benefit and cost outcomes. Benefit metrics of interest [...] Read more.
This article reviews the peer-reviewed and grey literature published from January 1985 to November 2022 that has quantitatively evaluated the effects of personalized budgets for people with disabilities (PwDs), in terms of a range of benefit and cost outcomes. Benefit metrics of interest comprised measures of well-being, service satisfaction and use, quality of life, health, and unmet needs. A search was conducted using the PsycINFO, MEDLINE, CINAHL, ASSIA, and Social Care Online databases. Based on inclusion criteria and a quality assessment using the Downs and Black Checklist, a final count of 23 studies were identified for in-depth review. Given the heterogeneous nature of the studies, a narrative synthesis, rather than a formal meta-analysis, was undertaken. Taking the relatively scarce and often methodologically limited evidence base at face value, the findings suggest that—overall—personalized budget users tend to benefit in terms of well-being and service satisfaction outcomes, with the exception of mixed effects for people with mental health conditions. Only a minority of studies have investigated the cost-effectiveness or costs-only of personalized budgets, finding mixed results. Two out of the three cost-effectiveness studies find personal budgets to be more cost-effective than alternative options, meaning that the possibly higher costs of personalized budgets may be more than outweighed by additional benefits. Some evidence looking at service use and/or costs only also points to significant reductions in certain service use areas, which at least hints at the potential that personalized budgeting may—in some cases—entail reduced costs. Further research is needed to explore the generalizability of these conclusions and to better capture and understand the factors driving the observed heterogeneity in some of the results. Full article
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