Disease / Health
The Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has recently published Working Papers 52 and 58. These Papers represent a third phase in…
Das Gendiagnostikgesetz und seine Auswirkungen auf die Risiko- und Leistungsprüfung
Life > Disease / Health03/2010
Im Ergebnis lässt sich feststellen, dass das GenDG im Vergleich zu der zuvor durch die Selbstverpflichtungserklärung geprägten Rechtslage weniger Änderungen…
The Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has recently published Working Paper 43, which is the fourth in a series of working…
Receiver operating characteristic curves (ROCs) are a popular way to summarize the resolution power of a diagnostic test. ROCs plot…
A global financial crisis has been affecting the whole world since the 3rd quarter of 2008. Against the background of…
In the SEER database, it is relatively easy to identify secondary cancers that follow an initial diagnosis of cancer. However,…
Secondary Cancer and Relapse Rates Following Radical Prostatectomy for Prostate-Confined Cancer
Life > Disease / Health11/2007
In the SEER database, it is relatively easy to identify secondary cancers that follow an initial diagnosis of cancer. However,…
Life table analysis and other mortality methods apply well to end points other than mortality. This paper demonstrates the application…
A Risk-Based Evaluation Methodology for Cost Effectiveness of Chronic Condition Health Management
Life > Disease / Health01/2011
A financial evaluation of the effectiveness of chronic disease health management programs would ideally take into account the health care…
The risk of a global avian flu or influenza A (H1N1) pandemic and the emergence of the worldwide SARS epidemic…
In this paper we employ the theory of real option pricing to address problems in the area of operational risk…
Predictive Modeling of Costs for a Chronic Disease with Acute High–Cost Episodes
Life > Disease / Health01/2008
Chronic diseases account for 75% of U.S. national health care expenditures as estimated by the Centers for Disease Control. Many…
Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease and Insurance: A Case Study in Genetic Heterogeneity
Life > Disease / Health01/2007
Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease (APKD) is a single-gene autosomal dominant genetic disorder leading to end-stage renal disease (ESRD, meaning kidney…
Do Micro Health Insurance Units Need Capital or Reinsurance? A Simulated Exercise to Examine Different Alternatives
Life > Disease / Health04/2006
The purpose of this article is to provide a technical discussion of capital loading that ‘‘micro health insurance units’’ (MIUs)…
The Impact of Asbestos and Environmental Reserves Increases on Shareholder Wealth
Life > Disease / Health07/2006
Between 1992 and 2001 significant reserves increase announcements were made by several major property/liability insurers. These reserves increases were for…
The Metabolic Syndrome and All–Cause Mortality in an Insured Lives Population
Life > Disease / Health07/2006
Metabolic syndrome and its association with mortality have not been studied in insured lives populations. The Swiss Re Study evaluated metabolic…
A Model for Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke with Applications to Critical Illness Insurance Underwriting I: The Model
Life > Disease / Health01/2005
In Part I we construct a model for the development of coronary heart disease (CHD) or stroke that either incorporates,…
We fit a linear mixed model and a Bayesian hierarchical model to data provided by an insurance company located in…
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