Modelling health expenditure at the household level in Greece

European Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 329-336

  Matsaganis, Manos ^a   Mitrakos, Theodore ^b   Tsakloglou, Panos ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b BANK OF GREECE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Generalised linear models; Greece; Household expenditure; Two part models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GREECE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FINANCING, PERSONAL; GREECE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 67649213767     PISSN: 16187598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10198-008-0137-y     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. A Basu WG Manning J Mullahy 2004 Comparing alternative models: log vs Cox proportional hazard? Health Econ. 13 749 765 10.1002/hec.852
2. DK Blough CW Madden MC Hornbrook 1999 Modeling risk using generalized linear models J. Health Econ. 18 153 171 10.1016/S0167-6296(98)00032-0
3. MB Buntin AM Zaslavsky 2004 Too much ado about two-part models and transformation? Comparing methods of modeling medicare expenditures J. Health Econ. 23 525 542 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2003.10.005
4. E Cantoni E Ronchetti 2006 A robust approach for skewed and heavy-tailed outcomes in the analysis of health care expenditures J. Health Econ. 25 198 213 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2005.04.010
5. P Deb PK Trivedi 2002 The structure of demand for health care: latent class versus two-part models J. Health Econ. 21 601 625 10.1016/S0167-6296(02) 00008-5
6. P Diehr D Yanez A Ash M Hornbrook DY Lin 1999 Methods for analyzing health care utilization and costs Annu. Rev. Public Health 20 125 144 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.20.1.125
7. N Duan 1983 Smearing estimate: a nonparametric retransformation method J. Am. Stat. Assoc. 78 605 610 10.2307/2288126
8. N Duan WG Manning CN Morris JP Newhouse 1983 A comparison of alternative models of the demand for medical care J. Bus. Econ. Stat. 1 115 126 10.2307/1391852
9. Health, O.E.C.D.: Data Version 26 June 2006. Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (2006)
10. Jones, A.M.: Health econometrics. In Culyer, A.J., Newhouse, J.P. (eds.) Handbook of Health Economics. North-Holland, Amsterdam (2000)
11. WG Manning 1998 The logged dependent variable, heteroscedasticity, and the retransformation problem J. Health Econ. 17 283 295 10.1016/S0167-6296(98) 00025-3
12. WG Manning J Mullahy 2001 Estimating log models: to transform or not to transform? J. Health Econ. 20 461 494 10.1016/S0167-6296(01)00086-8
13. WG Manning JP Newhouse N Duan EB Keeler A Leibowitz MS Marquis 1987 Health insurance and the demand for medical care: evidence from a randomized experiment Am. Econ. Rev. 77 251 277
14. WG Manning A Basu J Mullahy 2005 Generalized modeling approaches to risk adjustment of skewed outcomes data J. Health Econ. 24 465 488 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2004.09.011
15. McCullagh, P., Nelder, J.A.: Generalized Linear Models, 2nd edn. Chapman and Hall, London (1989)
16. E Mossialos S Allin K Davaki 2005 Analysing the Greek health system: a tale of fragmentation and inertia Health Econ. 14 S151 S168 10.1002/hec.1033
17. J Mullahy 1998 Much ado about two: reconsidering retransformation and the two-part model in health econometrics J. Health Econ. 17 247 281 10.1016/S0167-6296(98)00030-7
18. Siskou, O., Kaitelidou, D., Papakonstantinou, V., Liaropoulos, L.: Private health expenditure in the Greek health care system: where truth ends and the myth begins. Health Policy (forthcoming). doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2008.03. 016