Browsing by Author "O'Shea, Eamon"

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    • Care provision and dependency in long-stay institutions 

      O'Shea, Eamon; Murray, Peter (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1997)
      This paper investigates the empirical relationship between the dependency characteristics of elderly residents and the amount of care provided by health care professionals in a selected number of long-stay institutions in ...

    • Eliciting preferences for resource allocation in health care 

      O'Shea, Eamon; Stewart, Jennifer; Donaldson, Cam; Shackley, Phil (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2001)
      Willingness-to-pay (WTP) studies are increasingly being used in the evaluation of health care programmes and, although less frequently, for priority setting in health care. The usefulness of willingness-to-pay as a ...

    • Measuring trends in male mortality by socio-economic group in Ireland: a note on the quality of the data 

      O'Shea, Eamon (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      The objective of this paper is to examine measurement issues and data problems in the analysis of trends in male mortality differentials by socio-economic group (SEG) in Ireland between 1981 and 1991. The study is based ...

    • The placement of elderly persons - a logit estimation and cost-analysis 

      O'Shea, Eamon; Corcoran, Rosaleen (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)
      This study focuses on two groups of elderly persons deemed by the relevant health professional to be on the margin of domiciliary care and institutional care, respectively. A logit regression is estimated in order to test ...