A concept that has quietly reorganized how global health money is supposed to behave — and what it still leaves unresolved. Over the past…

Overview The concept of value-based healthcare (VBHC) has gained considerable traction over the past two decades, yet its implementation remains fragmented and methodologically inconsistent.…

The article titled “The Value of Health Care in the United States: Changes in Lifetime Spending and Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy, 1996 to 2016” investigates…

This preprint asks a deceptively simple question with system-level consequences: what actually works in deprescribing when you move beyond slogans and look across settings,…

Health Technology Assessment (HTA) serves as a vital tool for evaluating the worth and impact of health technologies, offering evidence-based guidance for their adoption…

Social determinants of health (SDOH) represent the broad, systemic conditions—such as socioeconomic status, education, neighborhood environment, and access to services—in which people are born,…

Pancreatitis is a serious disease that imposes a significant burden on healthcare systems globally. However, the socio-economic impact of this condition on working-age adults…

This article, “The New Dutch Guideline for Economic Evaluations in Healthcare: Taking the Societal Perspective to the Next Level” by H. Amarens Geuzinge and…

This comprehensive methods paper, titled “Survival analysis 101: an easy start guide to analysing time-to-event data,” was authored by Quin E. Denfeld, Debora Burger,…

Discover the groundbreaking insights from “Financial protection and universal health coverage in Georgia: an analysis of impoverishing healthcare costs using household income and expenditure…

This report, authored by Brendan Mulhern and colleagues, presents the methodology and findings of the “Preparatory study for the Re-valuation of the EQ-5D Tariff…

This critical review, “Costs of Illness in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: A Review of the Methodology,” authored by Thomas A. Hodgson and published in PharmacoEconomics in…

This report, published in Health Technology Assessment in March 2005, presents the development and validation of DEMQOL, a new psychometrically rigorous instrument designed to…

This paper, “Discrete choice experiments in health economics: A review of the literature” by Esther W. de Bekker‐Grob, Mandy Ryan, and Karen Gerard, provides…

The global health landscape faces unprecedented challenges, with the COVID-19 pandemic underscoring the universal vulnerabilities of health systems and existing financing arrangements. Similar risks…

The article you shared, “Methodology and reporting characteristics of studies using interrupted time series design in healthcare” by Hudson, Fielding, and Ramsay, is a…

This article, “Direct Cost Analysis of Intensive Care Unit Stay in Four European Countries: Applying a Standardized Costing Methodology,” published in Value in Health…

A new study published in The European Journal of Health Economics by Arthur E. Attema and colleagues sheds light on the significant variability in…

This introductory text provides a comprehensive overview of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2021 guidance document, “Financing common goods for health”, which critically addresses…

This research article, published in Cancer Medicine in 2025, presents a comprehensive, real-life report on the healthcare expenditure associated with lung carcinoma in Turkey,…

This paper, titled “Understanding the cost of care of type 2 diabetes mellitus – a value measurement perspective,” published in BMJ Open in 2022,…

The following text introduces the article “Examining out-of-pocket health expenditures of individuals with Type 1 diabetes: The case of Türkiye”. This study, authored by…

The research article, “Impacts of the diagnosis-intervention packet reform on costs and healthcare resource utilization: evidence from Guangzhou, China,” published in Health Economics Review…

This systematic review, published in Geriatric Nursing, comprehensively investigates the factors associated with financial exploitation (FE) in older adults. Financial exploitation is defined as…

This article, titled “Health Economic Evaluation: Important Principles and Methodology,” was authored by Luke Rudmik, MD, and Michael Drummond, PhD. It was published in…

This article, titled “Barriers and enablers to the implementation of patient-reported outcome and experience measures (PROMs/PREMs): protocol for an umbrella review”, is an open-access…

This article, titled “The utility of the implementation science framework “Integrated Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services” (i‑PARIHS) and the facilitator role…

The article “Value based healthcare and Health Technology Assessment for emerging market countries: joint efforts to overcome barriers,” authored by Maximillian Otte et al.,…

This article, “Real-world data: a brief review of the methods, applications, challenges and opportunities,” by Fang Liu and Demosthenes Panagiotakos, provides a concise overview…

This paper, “Equity of Access to Medical Care: A Conceptual and Empirical Overview,” was co-authored by Lu Ann Aday, Ph.D., and Ronald M. Andersen,…

This article, titled “National Health Surveys and the Behavioral Model of Health Services Use,” was authored by Ronald Max Andersen and published in Medical…

This article, “Revisiting the Behavioral Model and Access to Medical Care: Does it Matter?” by Ronald M. Andersen, was published in the Journal of…

The research article, titled “Determinants of fertility rates in Türkiye: the role of women’s income, human capital, participation in civil society and life expectancy,”…

This study, titled “Grossman’s Generalised Health Demand Model: An Application on Türkiye,” by Oğuz Kara, was published in 2024 in the İzmir İktisat Dergisi…

This paper, “Health as Human Capital: Synthesis and Extensions” by Gary S. Becker, provides a profound economic analysis of health, moving beyond the typical…

This article, “Health as an Investment,” by Selma J. Mushkin, published in the Journal of Political Economy in 1962, serves as a foundational text…

Michael Grossman’s influential 1972 paper fundamentally reshaped the economic perspective on health, moving beyond its traditional view as a mere consumption good to conceptualize…

This paper, “Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care” by Kenneth J. Arrow, stands as a foundational and pioneering work in the field…

The working paper titled “Four Decades of Health Economics through a Bibliometric Lens” by Adam Wagstaff and Anthony J. Culyer (World Bank Policy Research…

Access to healthcare services is increasingly recognized as a fundamental determinant of quality and equity within value-based healthcare models. While value-based approaches emphasize optimizing…

The article titled “Addressing Disparities: Unmet Health Needs and Its Impact on Health-Related Quality of Life” by Yetim and Uğurluoğlu (2025) provides a comprehensive…

The article titled “Socioeconomic factors predictive of access delays in oncology” by Allen M. Chen (2025) offers a rigorous analysis of how socioeconomic status…

This study by Mitchell et al. (2025) provides the most comprehensive global estimates to date on direct health-care spending related to brain disorders, encompassing…

This editorial by Buchanan, Goranitis, and Weymann (2025) introduces a special issue of Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, focusing on the evolving evidence…

Scientific advancements in medicine have led to the development of highly targeted and often high-cost therapies that promise substantial patient benefit but pose significant…

The study by Cavallaro, Ardito, Drummond, and Ciani (2025) addresses a critical challenge in health economics and policy research: the rapidly expanding volume of…

The article titled “The Short Form 6 Dimensions (SF-6D): Development and Evolution” offers a comprehensive review of the SF-6D, a preference-based measure derived from…

The article titled “Exploring the origin and conceptual framework of the EQ VAS” by Chuang et al. (2025) offers a detailed investigation into the…

Arslanoglu and Kurutkan’s (2025) bibliometric study offers a comprehensive examination of how social risk conditions—such as deprivation, poverty, inequality and low socioeconomic status—shape the…

The healthcare sector has long pursued the “Triple Aim” of enhancing patient experience, improving population health, and reducing per-capita costs. However, Sikka et al.…

Health inequalities remain one of the most persistent public health challenges across Europe. To better understand the social roots of these disparities, the European…

In a world where health systems are under constant pressure to allocate resources effectively, understanding and predicting healthcare demand is no longer optional—it’s essential.…