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0000-0003-0838-9324
Current Organisation
Griffith University - Gold Coast Campus
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Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 02-08-2017
DOI: 10.1093/EJCTS/EZX240
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2018
DOI: 10.1016/J.HEALTHPOL.2018.06.006
Abstract: The Triple Aim framework is an increasingly popular tool for designing and assessing quality improvements in the health care sector. We systematically reviewed the empirical evidence on the application of the Triple Aim framework within primary healthcare settings since its inception almost a decade ago. Results show that primary healthcare providers varied in their interpretation of the Triple Aim framework and generally struggled with a lack of guidance and an absence of composite sets of measures for performance assessment. Greater clarity around application of the Triple Aim framework in primary healthcare is needed, especially around the selection and implementation of purposeful measures from locally available data. This review highlights areas for improvement and makes recommendations intended to guide future applications of the Triple Aim in the context of primary healthcare.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-10-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-03-2017
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 25-11-2014
DOI: 10.1093/CJE/BET033
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-09-2019
DOI: 10.1111/TWEC.12720
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-09-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-07-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-01-2019
DOI: 10.1111/ECIN.12756
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-07-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S00191-023-00828-4
Abstract: As people become wealthy, the type of food they consume tends to fundamentally change. Bennett’s law states that the budget share of starchy food staples, such as cereals and rice, tends to decline as household income rises, while the budget share of other foods, such as meat and vegetables, tends to rise. We argue that an important factor behind this shift is the extent to which the caloric value of the household’s diet meets their energy needs. When the caloric value of the diet is too low, the demand for calories is unsatiated and household’s will ‘eat to live’ and prefer to consume more calorie-dense staple foods, relative to other foods. If the calorie intake exceeds daily energy needs, satiated consumers will ‘live to eat’ and prefer to dedicate additional income to consuming more non-starchy foods that satisfy other wants, such as taste, novelty, or social status. Using Sri Lankan household data, we employ a finite mixture model (FMM) to analyze how satiated and unsatiated groups of consumers alter their calorie intake as income rises. We find empirical evidence that supports this conjecture and suggests that calorie satiation plays an important role in enabling food preferences to evolve as income rises. Policy implications are also discussed.
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd
Date: 30-06-2018
Abstract: Expanded international trade in goods and services has driven economic development in the Asia-Pacific since the 1994 APEC Bogor declaration that called for free trade and investment in the region. Despite this goal, APEC has predominantly focussed on international trade rather than investment. To redress this bias, the paper first highlights the benefits from increased international investment before examining APEC foreign investment flows relative to trade flows in APEC economies. It then examines key trends before concluding that APEC should prioritize foreign investment to accelerate economic development and living standards in the region.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 02-10-2023
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-04-2023
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-06-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2022
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 04-2014
Abstract: The tendency of sectoral demand to satiate has long been argued to be a key driver of the structural change in an economy (Pasinetti 1981 Saviotti 2001). This literature raises the question as to what extent cross-sectional patterns of household expenditure can be used to make inferences about how the demand for goods and services will grow over time. Moreover, if indeed satiation does take place, then firms and entrepreneurs could react to this situation by innovating goods and services in order to overcome stagnation in demand growth (Witt 2001). We empirically investigate this ‘satiation-escape’ hypothesis by examining the inter-temporal dynamics of Engel curves and their derivatives, which reflect how household spending on a good changes with income. Taking into account changes in the price level, we investigate whether Engel curves that exhibit cross-section satiation tend to exhibit over time an upwards shift in the satiation level jointly with a shift in position and shape. Evidence suggests that this is actually the case.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2018
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 05-12-2016
DOI: 10.1108/IJSE-03-2015-0061
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to test whether household preferences satisfy the assumption of base-independence, to examine the effects of household income on equivalence scales and thereby food consumption economies of scale and to examine how far conventional poverty rates require adjustment when scale economies in food consumption are taken into consideration. To achieve these aims, the authors use a Pendakur (1999) adaptation of the test of base-independence, and income dependent Engel (1895) equivalence scales. In Sri Lanka, the hypothesis of base-independence is rejected: the equivalence scales increase with household income both at the national and the sectoral level, that is urban, rural and estate sectors. This suggests that low-income households enjoy greater scale economies. After adjusting for scale economies, urban, rural and estate poverty headcount ratios decline by 3.2, 8.8 and 13.7, respectively, while at the national level the decline is about 8.3. The results are based on the assumption that all of the adults in the households have identical tastes, irrespective of their gender and age. Furthermore, the survey data exclude three districts in the northern province of Sri Lanka due to resettlement activities took place after the civil war. Higher scale economies among the poor imply that poverty among low-income households is overstated when using traditional measures of poverty rates. The novelty of this paper is that it provides insights on the effect of income on food consumption economies of scale and implications of this phenomenon on poverty estimates in the context of a developing country like Sri Lanka.
Publisher: American Economic Association
Date: 02-2010
DOI: 10.1257/JEP.24.1.225
Abstract: Engel curves describe how household expenditure on particular goods or services depends on household income. German statistician Ernst Engel (1821–1896) was the first to investigate this relationship systematically in an article published about 150 years ago. The best-known single result from the article is “Engel's law,” which states that the poorer a family is, the larger the budget share it spends on nourishment. We revisit Engel's article, including its context and the mechanics of the argument. Because the article was completed a few decades before linear regression techniques were established and income effects were incorporated into standard consumer theory, Engel was forced to develop his own approach to analyzing household expenditure patterns. We find his work contains some interesting features in juxtaposition to both the modern and classical literature. For ex le, Engel's way of estimating the expenditure–income relationship resembles a data-fitting technique called the “regressogram” that is nonparametric—in that no functional form is specified before the estimation. Moreover, Engel introduced a way of categorizing household expenditures in which expenditures on commodities that served the same purpose by satisfying the same underlying “want” were grouped together. This procedure enabled Engel to discuss the welfare implications of his results in terms of the Smithian notion that in idual welfare is related to the satisfaction of wants. At the same time, he avoided making a priori assumptions about which specific goods were necessities, assumptions which were made by many classical economists like Adam Smith. Finally, we offer a few thoughts about some modern literature that builds on Engel's research.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-04-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-02-2017
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 17-03-2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 10-11-2018
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