Purpose: This chapter focuses on individual differences in anxiety, by reviewing its neurobiology, cognitive effects, with an emphasis on decision-making, and recent developments in neuroeconomics.
Methodology: A review and discussion of anxiety and decision-making research.
Practical implications: This chapter argues that by making the step from emotional states to individual differences in emotion, neuroeconomics can extend its neurobiological roots and outreach its current clinical relevance. VALUE OF CHAPTER: This chapter contributes to the literature on individual differences in emotion and their effects on decision-making, which is increasingly important in mainstream behavioral economics and neuroeconomics.
{"title":"Anxiety and decision-making: toward a neuroeconomics perspective.","authors":"Andrei C Miu, Mircea Miclea, Daniel Houser","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This chapter focuses on individual differences in anxiety, by reviewing its neurobiology, cognitive effects, with an emphasis on decision-making, and recent developments in neuroeconomics.</p><p><strong>Methodology: </strong>A review and discussion of anxiety and decision-making research.</p><p><strong>Practical implications: </strong>This chapter argues that by making the step from emotional states to individual differences in emotion, neuroeconomics can extend its neurobiological roots and outreach its current clinical relevance. VALUE OF CHAPTER: This chapter contributes to the literature on individual differences in emotion and their effects on decision-making, which is increasingly important in mainstream behavioral economics and neuroeconomics.</p>","PeriodicalId":79553,"journal":{"name":"Advances in health economics and health services research","volume":"20 ","pages":"55-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28265411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Competition and market concentration.","authors":"Nazmi Sari","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79553,"journal":{"name":"Advances in health economics and health services research","volume":"18 ","pages":"139-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28376873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Benchmarking Finnish hospitals.","authors":"Miika Linna, Unto Häkkinen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79553,"journal":{"name":"Advances in health economics and health services research","volume":"18 ","pages":"179-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28376876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficiency in government-funded health care services: the use of non-health sector mechanisms to encourage efficiency.","authors":"Abby L Bloom","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79553,"journal":{"name":"Advances in health economics and health services research","volume":"18 ","pages":"191-208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28376877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this chapter we propose a three-pronged approach to assessing efficiency of health care, including financial performance, performance in the production of (intermediate) medical outcomes and performance relating medical outcomes to patient health outcomes. Throughout we use frontier models which can be estimated in a number of ways, including DEA, stochastic frontiers and index numbers. We illustrate the health outcomes model with an application to cataract surgery patients in Sweden and use DEA as our estimator. Again, other frontier estimation methods as well as index numbers could be employed to explore other procedures' effectiveness and overall performance of services and/or hospitals and clinics.
{"title":"Evaluating health care efficiency.","authors":"Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Mats Lundström, Pontus Roos","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this chapter we propose a three-pronged approach to assessing efficiency of health care, including financial performance, performance in the production of (intermediate) medical outcomes and performance relating medical outcomes to patient health outcomes. Throughout we use frontier models which can be estimated in a number of ways, including DEA, stochastic frontiers and index numbers. We illustrate the health outcomes model with an application to cataract surgery patients in Sweden and use DEA as our estimator. Again, other frontier estimation methods as well as index numbers could be employed to explore other procedures' effectiveness and overall performance of services and/or hospitals and clinics.</p>","PeriodicalId":79553,"journal":{"name":"Advances in health economics and health services research","volume":"18 ","pages":"209-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28376878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-01-01DOI: 10.1016/S0731-2199(08)19001-X
G. Miller, C. Roehrig, P. Hughes-Cromwick, C. Lake
{"title":"Quantifying national spending on wellness and prevention.","authors":"G. Miller, C. Roehrig, P. Hughes-Cromwick, C. Lake","doi":"10.1016/S0731-2199(08)19001-X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0731-2199(08)19001-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79553,"journal":{"name":"Advances in health economics and health services research","volume":"19 1","pages":"1-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0731-2199(08)19001-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56183361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-01-01DOI: 10.1016/S0731-2199(08)20013-0
A. Malani, Daniel Houser
{"title":"Expectations mediate objective physiological placebo effects.","authors":"A. Malani, Daniel Houser","doi":"10.1016/S0731-2199(08)20013-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0731-2199(08)20013-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79553,"journal":{"name":"Advances in health economics and health services research","volume":"20 1","pages":"311-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0731-2199(08)20013-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56183930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hospital consolidation and integration activity in the United States.","authors":"Gloria J Bazzoli","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79553,"journal":{"name":"Advances in health economics and health services research","volume":"18 ","pages":"45-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28376866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of ownership on the cost-efficiency of U.S. hospitals.","authors":"Ryan L Mutter, Michael D Rosko","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79553,"journal":{"name":"Advances in health economics and health services research","volume":"18 ","pages":"113-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28376871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Purpose: Long-term care (LTC) services assist people with limitations in the ability to perform activities of daily living (ADLs) as a result of chronic illness or disabilities. We discuss possible behavioral explanations for the under-purchasing of LTC insurance, as well as the current state of knowledge on the neural mechanisms behind these behavioral factors.
Findings/approach: Ideas from behavioral economics are discussed, including risk-seeking over losses, ambiguity-preferring over losses, hyperbolic discounting, and the effect of the aging process on the underlying neural mechanisms supporting these decisions. We further emphasize the role of age, as aging is a highly heterogeneous process. It is associated with changes in both brain tissue as well as cognitive abilities, and both are characterized by large individual differences. Therefore, understanding the neural mechanisms is vital to understanding this heterogeneity and identifying possible methods of interventions.
Research implications: LTC financing and insurance is a looming issue in the next 10-20 years. It is important to understand the process by which people make decisions about LTC insurance, heterogeneity in decision processes across individuals, and how these decisions interact with changes in policy and private LTC insurance markets.
Originality/value of the chapter: By providing an overview of the current state of knowledge in behavioral economics of LTC insurance and the neuroscience of aging, this chapter provides some new directions in the emerging area of neuroeconomics of aging.
{"title":"Neuroeconomics of decision-making in the aging brain: the example of long-term care.","authors":"Ming Hsu, Hung-Tai Lin, Paul E McNamara","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Long-term care (LTC) services assist people with limitations in the ability to perform activities of daily living (ADLs) as a result of chronic illness or disabilities. We discuss possible behavioral explanations for the under-purchasing of LTC insurance, as well as the current state of knowledge on the neural mechanisms behind these behavioral factors.</p><p><strong>Findings/approach: </strong>Ideas from behavioral economics are discussed, including risk-seeking over losses, ambiguity-preferring over losses, hyperbolic discounting, and the effect of the aging process on the underlying neural mechanisms supporting these decisions. We further emphasize the role of age, as aging is a highly heterogeneous process. It is associated with changes in both brain tissue as well as cognitive abilities, and both are characterized by large individual differences. Therefore, understanding the neural mechanisms is vital to understanding this heterogeneity and identifying possible methods of interventions.</p><p><strong>Research implications: </strong>LTC financing and insurance is a looming issue in the next 10-20 years. It is important to understand the process by which people make decisions about LTC insurance, heterogeneity in decision processes across individuals, and how these decisions interact with changes in policy and private LTC insurance markets.</p><p><strong>Originality/value of the chapter: </strong>By providing an overview of the current state of knowledge in behavioral economics of LTC insurance and the neuroscience of aging, this chapter provides some new directions in the emerging area of neuroeconomics of aging.</p>","PeriodicalId":79553,"journal":{"name":"Advances in health economics and health services research","volume":"20 ","pages":"203-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28263772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}