Introduction Broader adoption of home dialysis could lead to considerable cost savings for health services. Globally, however, uptake remains low. The aim of this study was to describe patient and caregiver perspectives of the economic considerations that influence dialysis modality choice, and elicit policy-relevant recommendations. Methods Semistructured interviews with predialysis or dialysi...

Follow the recent Global Financial Crisis, the role of Australian Governments in providing assistance to households unable to access, afford, or maintain adequate housing has come increasingly into focus. Australia is experiencing ongoing and substantial housing affordability decline, and our cities have some of the world’s highest rates of housing un-affordability. Housing affordability direct...

INTRODUCTION Given the increasing number of people in Spain struggling to pay housing-related costs during the economic recession, it is important to assess the health status of these communities as compared to the general population and to better understand the different housing dimensions that are related with poor mental health. This study aims to describe the housing conditions and health s...

The 20 century has brought much development to the practice of Architecture worldwide, and technology has bridged inhabitation limits in many regions of the world with high levels of comfort and conveniences, most times at high costs to the environment. Throughout the globe, the tropical countries are being urbanized at an unprecedented rate and housing has become a major issue worldwide, in li...

In contrast to many commodities traded in the economy, housing services include a diverse bundle of attributes priced in a complex way. Because of the high costs of transforming housing bundles, arbitrage is generally impossible; thus it is to be expected that the prices of individual attributes vary jointly in a nonlinear way, even in market equilibrium. Indeed, in the housing literature there...

In this paper I develop and estimate a dynamic model of the household decision to default on a mortgage using data from the Homeowners Affordability Modification Program (HAMP), which reduces delinquent homeowner housing payments to 31 percent of income. I find that HAMP has prevented 550,000 defaults as of June 2013 relative to a scenario where HAMP does not exist, at a cost-per-default preven...

The United States disposes roughly 60% of the municipal solid waste it generates each year in solid waste disposal facilities, commonly known as landfills. Hedonic pricing studies have estimated the external costs of landfills on neighboring housing markets, but the literature is silent on what happens to property values after the landfill closes. Original housing price data collected both befo...

research by Dr John Morrissey, Prof Ralph Horne, Prof Mike Berry and Mr Trivess Moore conducted at the Centre for Design, RMIT University between February 2008 and October 2010. The research examined the relationship between housing cost and provision and long term sustainability limits, considering socio-economic, spatial and inter-generational dimensions. This briefing reports on the influenc...

THE DYNAMICS OF HOUSING PRICES: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE∗ by Peter Englund Yannis M. Ioannides Department of Economics Department of Economics University of Uppsala VPI&SU S–751 20 Uppsala Sweden Blacksburg, VA 24061-0316 Telephone: 46-18-181105 Telephone: 1-703-231-7981 Email: Email: yannis@vtvm1 This paper provides an international perspective on the dynamics of housing prices in alternat...