Health economics and policy challenges in global emerging markets

7. EMPIRICAL RESULTS7.1. Willingness-to-Pay Values ; 7.2. Willingness-to-Pay Values Across Subgroups ; CONCLUSION ; DISCLAIMER; REFERENCES ; Chapter 5 THE HEALTH ECONOMICS OF NON-EPILEPTIC ATTACK DISORDER IN IRELAND ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; Incidence and Prevalence of NEAD in Ireland ; Estimation of Costs; Cost-of-Illness Analysis ; Measurement of Costs ; Incidence of NEAD in Ireland ; Using Iceland Figures (Sigurdardottir and Olafsson, 1998) ; Using Hamilton County, Ohio, Figures (Szflarski et al. 2000) ; Economic Cost of NEAD in Ireland ; Prevalence Based Cost-of-Illness.

Intro -- HEALTH ECONOMICS AND POLICY CHALLENGES IN GLOBAL EMERGING MARKETS -- HEALTH ECONOMICS AND POLICY CHALLENGES IN GLOBAL EMERGING MARKETS -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 BRICS VS. N-11: POPULATION AGING AND HEALTH EXPENDITURES IN GLOBAL EMERGING MARKETS- HISTORICALS RECORDS AND UN FORECASTS 1975 - 2025 -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- Data Sources -- Data Analysis -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- STUDY LIMITATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 WHAT CAN EMERGING MARKETS LEARN FROM A PUBLIC LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE SYSTEM FROM A MATURE COUNTRY: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY? -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- The Public Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) System in Japan -- Introduction of the LTCI System in Japan -- A Structural Model to Measure the Effect of Public Long-Term Care Insurance System on Welfare Changes in Households -- EMPIRICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND ANALYSIS -- The Data Set -- The Robust OLS Results for the Pooled Cross Section Data Set -- The Robust OLS Results for the Two-Year Data Set (2000 and 2003) in Table 6 -- Calculation of Values of Risk, Loss Variance and Absolute Risk Aversion (ARA) -- Discussion about the Factor of Economic Recession -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 INCORPORATION OF MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS INTO HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT: EXPERIENCES AND CHALLENGES FROM BULGARIA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- Key Theoretical Issues of MCDA -- Selecting Criteria -- Generic and Case-Specific MCDA Models -- International Experience on Combining HTA and MCDA -- From a Single ICER Measure to a Broader Set of Criteria -- Practical Lessons from Real-World MCDA Models -- Incorporation of MCDA into HTA in Bulgaria -- The Bulgarian Experience in Incorporating MCDA into HTA.