Health Economics Issues Research Articles in September 2021 Edition

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Aug. 12 -- Health Economics, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features health care, planning and market mechanisms, micro-economic evaluation and treatments and evaluation of health care systems, published research articles on the following topics in its September 2021 edition:

RESEARCH ARTICLES:

* Challenges in developing capability measures for children and young people for use in the economic evaluation of health and care interventions

* Who cares when you close down? The effects of primary care practice closures on patients

* The complementarity of drug monitoring programs and health IT for reducing opioid-related mortality and morbidity

* Does the rise of robotic technology make people healthier?

* The impact of minimum wage increases on cigarette smoking

* Baby bonus in Switzerland: Effects on fertility, newborn health, and birth-scheduling

* Information and cooperation in preventive health behavior: The case of bed net use in rural Kenya

* The effect of distance on maternal institutional delivery choice: Evidence from Malawi

* The short-term impact of a malaria elimination initiative in Southern Mozambique: Application of the synthetic control method to routine surveillance data

* Delivering health insurance through informal financial groups: Evidence on moral hazard and adverse selection

* The effect of coverage of smoking-cessation aids on tobacco use: Evidence from Canada

* The asymmetric experience of gains and losses in job security on health

* A unified framework to account for selective mortality in lifecycle analyses of the social gradient in health

* The effects of false identification laws on underage alcohol-related traffic fatalities

The September 2021 edition of Health Economics can be viewed at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10991050/2021/30/9. The journal is published by John Wiley and Sons.